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Pixelated cyan background with four pink 'Larry' text instances and three black pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

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Pixelated cyan background with four pink 'Larry' text instances and three black pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

Pixelated cyan background with four pink 'Larry' text instances and three black pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • text
  • central dot cluster
  • top-center heart
  • top-right starburst

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains four identical pink 'Larry' text instances arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-center displays a solid black heart-shaped pixel cluster. Top-right shows a black starburst pattern with eight radiating dots. Center features a circular arrangement of scattered black pixels. Text is rendered in blocky, low-resolution font with visible dithering and color bleeding. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with four pink 'Larry' text instances and three black pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080207182652400058774

Named Entities

  • Larry

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink Larry text
  • black heart starburst dot clusters
  • pixel art Larry text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art Larry text grid

Visible Text

  • Larry

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • four 'Larry' text instances
  • pink text
  • black heart pixel cluster
  • black starburst pattern
  • circular dot cluster
  • blocky font
  • dithered pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080207182652400058774
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
516 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d5c5d98b83cac989c8a6c8cf9661deb9cbe4ee685dcfc96cca0f089070eb09af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
d5c5d98b83cac989
SHA-256
d5c5d98b83cac989c8a6c8cf9661deb9cbe4ee685dcfc96cca0f089070eb09af
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105899

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan background with four pink 'Larry' text instances and three black pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 18:24 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,292 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 575

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • text
  • central dot cluster
  • top-center heart
  • top-right starburst

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains four identical pink 'Larry' text instances arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-center displays a solid black heart-shaped pixel cluster. Top-right shows a black starburst pattern with eight radiating dots. Center features a circular arrangement of scattered black pixels. Text is rendered in blocky, low-resolution font with visible dithering and color bleeding. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with four pink 'Larry' text instances and three black pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080207182652400058774

Named Entities

  • Larry

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink Larry text
  • black heart starburst dot clusters
  • pixel art Larry text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art Larry text grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Visible Text

  • Larry

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • four 'Larry' text instances
  • pink text
  • black heart pixel cluster
  • black starburst pattern
  • circular dot cluster
  • blocky font
  • dithered pixels
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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
20080207182652400058774
Archive entry
20080207182652400058774.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080207182652400058774.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080207182652400058774.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016