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A colorful swirl lollipop with a white stick, overlaid with a pink rectangular frame containing the letter 'I' on a white background.

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A colorful swirl lollipop with a white stick, overlaid with a pink rectangular frame containing the letter 'I' on a white background.

A colorful swirl lollipop with a white stick, overlaid with a pink rectangular frame containing the letter 'I' on a white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central subject
  • square frame
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a circular, multicolored swirl lollipop with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple segments on a white background. A vertical white stick extends from the bottom center of the lollipop. Overlaid on the lollipop is a bright pink rectangular frame with rounded corners, containing a white capital letter 'I' in the center. The lollipop has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

  • A colorful swirl lollipop with a white stick, overlaid with a pink rectangular frame containing the letter 'I' on a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • multicolored lollipop icon
  • pink frame letter I
  • pixel art lollipop
  • white background lollipop

Visible Text

  • I

Wordwall

  • multicolored swirl lollipop
  • white stick
  • pink rectangular frame
  • white capital letter 'I'
  • white background
  • pixelated appearance
  • color banding
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20101022150337393183785
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
d281ba9b2bfa8307
SHA-256
d281ba9b2bfa830797187d47e75aa86e229e7c647102432b6c139cfa0282dc9b
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 21:07 UTC
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 13:08 UTC
Run
1196
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A colorful swirl lollipop with a white stick, overlaid with a pink rectangular frame containing the letter 'I' on a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,015 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 668

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stick (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • lollipop (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • central subject
  • square frame
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a circular, multicolored swirl lollipop with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple segments on a white background. A vertical white stick extends from the bottom center of the lollipop. Overlaid on the lollipop is a bright pink rectangular frame with rounded corners, containing a white capital letter 'I' in the center. The lollipop has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color banding.

Description

  • A colorful swirl lollipop with a white stick, overlaid with a pink rectangular frame containing the letter 'I' on a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • multicolored lollipop icon
  • pink frame letter I
  • pixel art lollipop
  • white background lollipop

Objects

  • stick

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • lollipop

Visible Text

  • I

Wordwall

  • multicolored swirl lollipop
  • white stick
  • pink rectangular frame
  • white capital letter 'I'
  • white background
  • pixelated appearance
  • color banding
  • dithering
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Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20101022150337393183785
Archive entry
20101022150337393183785.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20101022150337393183785.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20101022150337393183785.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016