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A static digital image with orange text and pink geometric lines on a black background.

A static digital image with orange text and pink geometric lines on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text
  • overlapping lines

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the text "I <33 JOHN" in bright orange, pixelated font. The background is solid black with overlapping pink diamond-shaped outlines forming a repeating pattern across all panels. The lines are thin and intersect to create a lattice effect.

Description

  • A static digital image with orange text and pink geometric lines on a black 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange text pink background
  • four black
  • diamond outlines I <33 JOHN
  • pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels black grid

Visible Text

  • I <33 JOHN

Visually Supported Entities

  • "I <33 JOHN" text

Wordwall

  • orange text
  • pink geometric lines
  • black background
  • four identical
  • "I <33 JOHN" text
  • pixelated font
  • diamond-shaped outlines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071116215953194657809
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/dfd15ba93d631323d07b162670460cf2e7d264cf4c026b0481cd60bf2f4c8895.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
dfd15ba93d631323
SHA-256
dfd15ba93d631323d07b162670460cf2e7d264cf4c026b0481cd60bf2f4c8895
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.423616

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.737878onnx/unsafe0.423616onnx/nsfw0.376769onnx/nsfl0.046847
Enrichment records (1)
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A static digital image with orange text and pink geometric lines on a black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,896 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink diamond outlines (object, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text i 33 john (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • pink

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text
  • overlapping lines

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the text "I <33 JOHN" in bright orange, pixelated font. The background is solid black with overlapping pink diamond-shaped outlines forming a repeating pattern across all panels. The lines are thin and intersect to create a lattice effect.

Description

  • A static digital image with orange text and pink geometric lines on a black 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange text pink background
  • four black
  • diamond outlines I <33 JOHN
  • pixelated

Objects

  • pink diamond outlines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels black grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • geometric
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • text "I <33 JOHN"

Visible Text

  • I <33 JOHN

Visually Supported Entities

  • "I <33 JOHN" text

Wordwall

  • orange text
  • pink geometric lines
  • black background
  • four identical
  • "I <33 JOHN" text
  • pixelated font
  • diamond-shaped outlines
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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
20071116215953194657809
Archive entry
20071116215953194657809.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#20071116215953194657809.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071116215953194657809.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016