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Four identical circular icons with red and black spiral backgrounds, white text reading '90', '899ies', '90', and heart symbols at top/bottom.

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Four identical circular icons with red and black spiral backgrounds, white text reading '90', '899ies', '90', and heart symbols at top/bottom.

Four identical circular icons with red and black spiral backgrounds, white text reading '90', '899ies', '90', and heart symbols at top/bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Composition

  • circular frame
  • symmetrical layout
  • text centered vertically
  • heart symbols at top/bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a red background with concentric black spirals forming a target-like pattern. White pixelated text is centered: the top line reads '90', the middle line reads '899ies' (with visible character distortion), and the bottom line reads '90'. At the top and bottom of each circle, there are five white heart symbols arranged horizontally. The icons have no motion or animation changes between observations.

Description

Four identical circular icons with red and black spiral backgrounds, white text reading '90', '899ies', '90', and heart symbols at top/bottom.

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
  • 20080415154349571376437

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red spiral hearts 90
  • pixelated 899ies text
  • circular icon with hearts
  • retro digital 90 899ies

Visible Text

  • 90
  • 899ies

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black spiral pattern
  • white pixelated text
  • '90' at top/bottom
  • '899ies' in middle
  • five hearts top/bottom
  • circular shape
  • pixel distortion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080415154349571376437
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
dda71b2d756872a1
SHA-256
dda71b2d756872a1628194fa8547e6a051982a8ef4b0c7ed34e196ba664ba273
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070437

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Four identical circular icons with red and black spiral backgrounds, white text reading '90', '899ies', '90', and heart symbols at top/bottom.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 04:29 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,878 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 690

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • circular frame
  • symmetrical layout
  • text centered vertically
  • heart symbols at top/bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a red background with concentric black spirals forming a target-like pattern. White pixelated text is centered: the top line reads '90', the middle line reads '899ies' (with visible character distortion), and the bottom line reads '90'. At the top and bottom of each circle, there are five white heart symbols arranged horizontally. The icons have no motion or animation changes between observations.

Description

Four identical circular icons with red and black spiral backgrounds, white text reading '90', '899ies', '90', and heart symbols at top/bottom.

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
  • 20080415154349571376437

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red spiral hearts 90
  • pixelated 899ies text
  • circular icon with hearts
  • retro digital 90 899ies

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • 90
  • 899ies

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black spiral pattern
  • white pixelated text
  • '90' at top/bottom
  • '899ies' in middle
  • five hearts top/bottom
  • circular shape
  • pixel distortion
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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
20080415154349571376437
Archive entry
20080415154349571376437.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080415154349571376437.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080415154349571376437.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016