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Pixelated cyan background with yellow decorative borders and four purple "qwe" text instances arranged symmetrically.

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Pixelated cyan background with yellow decorative borders and four purple "qwe" text instances arranged symmetrically.

Pixelated cyan background with yellow decorative borders and four purple "qwe" text instances arranged symmetrically. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes across observations; all decorative elements and text remain static throughout.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • bordered
  • four-quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

Cyan background with yellow pixelated decorative elements forming a border: dashed lines, dotted lines, and asterisk-like shapes at corners and midpoints. Four instances of purple pixelated text "qwe" appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. All decorative elements and text remain static across observations. Yellow decorative elements include horizontal/vertical dashed lines, dotted lines, and asterisk-like shapes. Purple text "qwe" is rendered in a pixelated font with lowercase letters. Cyan background is solid and uniform. No visible motion or content changes across observations. All decorative elements and text maintain consistent position, color, and style throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with yellow decorative borders and four purple "qwe" text instances arranged symmetrically.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan yellow purple pixelated border
  • four qwe text instances
  • symmetrical pixelated text arrangement
  • cyan background yellow decorative elements
  • pixelated cyan yellow purple

Visible Text

  • qwe

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow decorative border
  • asterisk-like shapes
  • dashed lines
  • dotted lines
  • four "qwe" text instances
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201304040616361248172236
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
732 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/da/da325d1d8180f360ee0268fa104a12017e589fcfddb67cfa4730d01ceac2904e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
da325d1d8180f360
SHA-256
da325d1d8180f360ee0268fa104a12017e589fcfddb67cfa4730d01ceac2904e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085639

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan background with yellow decorative borders and four purple "qwe" text instances arranged symmetrically.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:24 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,326 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 698

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes across observations; all decorative elements and text remain static throughout.

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • purple

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • bordered
  • four-quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

Cyan background with yellow pixelated decorative elements forming a border: dashed lines, dotted lines, and asterisk-like shapes at corners and midpoints. Four instances of purple pixelated text "qwe" appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. All decorative elements and text remain static across observations. Yellow decorative elements include horizontal/vertical dashed lines, dotted lines, and asterisk-like shapes. Purple text "qwe" is rendered in a pixelated font with lowercase letters. Cyan background is solid and uniform. No visible motion or content changes across observations. All decorative elements and text maintain consistent position, color, and style throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with yellow decorative borders and four purple "qwe" text instances arranged symmetrically.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • four qwe text instances
  • symmetrical pixelated text arrangement
  • cyan background yellow decorative elements
  • pixelated cyan yellow purple

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • symmetrical

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  • qwe

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow decorative border
  • asterisk-like shapes
  • dashed lines
  • dotted lines
  • four "qwe" text instances
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • static image
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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
201304040616361248172236
Archive entry
201304040616361248172236.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#201304040616361248172236.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201304040616361248172236.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016