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Four display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown show identical text and symbols

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Four display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown show identical text and symbols

Four display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown show identical text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static display identical text and symbols on different colored backgrounds

Composition

  • four
  • stacked text
  • centered text
  • identical layout

Dense Caption

Four panels display white text on colored backgrounds: orange (top-left), brown (top-right), black (bottom-left), and brown (bottom-right). Each panel contains the names "Tim", "Ginny", "Jason", "Jenna M." in stacked order, followed by the pixelated symbol sequence "<3333". The text and symbol are identical across all panels. The orange panel has a bright orange background, the top-right and bottom-right panels have a dark brown background, and the bottom-left panel has a black background. All text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font. The symbol sequence "<3333" is consistently positioned below the names in each panel.

Description

Four display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown show identical text and symbols

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white text orange brown black backgrounds
  • stacked names <3333
  • four identical text
  • pixelated font <3333

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown panels show identical text and symbols.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static panels display identical text and symbols on different colored backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels identical text

Visible Text

  • Tim
  • Ginny
  • Jason
  • Jenna M.
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • white text
  • orange background
  • brown background
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • stacked names
  • Jenna M.
  • <3333
  • four
  • identical text
  • text below symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812081731171317207834
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e16c9ea58c98288375615c25c6ca46a281d3f065ed6fb7f3bab72d568e1a8b17.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
e16c9ea58c982883
SHA-256
e16c9ea58c98288375615c25c6ca46a281d3f065ed6fb7f3bab72d568e1a8b17
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085751

OpenAI category scores

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Four display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown show identical text and symbols

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,685 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 761

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static display identical text and symbols on different colored backgrounds

Colors

  • orange
  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • stacked text
  • centered text
  • identical layout

Dense Caption

Four panels display white text on colored backgrounds: orange (top-left), brown (top-right), black (bottom-left), and brown (bottom-right). Each panel contains the names "Tim", "Ginny", "Jason", "Jenna M." in stacked order, followed by the pixelated symbol sequence "<3333". The text and symbol are identical across all panels. The orange panel has a bright orange background, the top-right and bottom-right panels have a dark brown background, and the bottom-left panel has a black background. All text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font. The symbol sequence "<3333" is consistently positioned below the names in each panel.

Description

Four display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown show identical text and symbols

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white text orange brown black backgrounds
  • stacked names <3333
  • four identical text
  • pixelated font <3333

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display white text on colored backgrounds with pixelated <3333 at the bottom; orange, brown, black, and brown panels show identical text and symbols.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static panels display identical text and symbols on different colored backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels identical text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Tim
  • Ginny
  • Jason
  • Jenna M.
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • white text
  • orange background
  • brown background
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • stacked names
  • Jenna M.
  • <3333
  • four
  • identical text
  • text below symbol
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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
200812081731171317207834
Archive entry
200812081731171317207834.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812081731171317207834.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812081731171317207834.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016