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Blue background with nested square outlines and vertical text reading 'lol' above, 'LoL' in the center, and 'lol' below.

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Blue background with nested square outlines and vertical text reading 'lol' above, 'LoL' in the center, and 'lol' below.

Blue background with nested square outlines and vertical text reading 'lol' above, 'LoL' in the center, and 'lol' below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical blue squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square contains multiple nested square outlines in varying shades of blue. Centered vertically within each square is text: five instances of 'lol' (lowercase) stacked above a single instance of 'LoL' (capitalized), with the topmost and bottommost 'lol' aligned to the outer edges of the innermost square outline. The background outside the squares is solid dark blue.

Description

  • Blue background with nested square outlines and vertical text reading 'lol' above, 'LoL' in the center, and 'lol' below.

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
  • 20071108212913868996958

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue square text icon
  • lol lol LoL lol lol
  • nested squares blue text
  • pixel art humor icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid

Visible Text

  • lol

Wordwall

  • blue
  • squares
  • nested outlines
  • text
  • 'lol'
  • vertical alignment
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071108212913868996958
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
812 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f97a6639c1ff769d1d47a3b8e3bdb02ad1e73293a17371cf458a76ee483f39ae.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
f97a6639c1ff769d
SHA-256
f97a6639c1ff769d1d47a3b8e3bdb02ad1e73293a17371cf458a76ee483f39ae
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096145

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with nested square outlines and vertical text reading 'lol' above, 'LoL' in the center, and 'lol' below.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,942 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 626

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Colors

  • blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical blue squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square contains multiple nested square outlines in varying shades of blue. Centered vertically within each square is text: five instances of 'lol' (lowercase) stacked above a single instance of 'LoL' (capitalized), with the topmost and bottommost 'lol' aligned to the outer edges of the innermost square outline. The background outside the squares is solid dark blue.

Description

  • Blue background with nested square outlines and vertical text reading 'lol' above, 'LoL' in the center, and 'lol' below.

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
  • 20071108212913868996958

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue square text icon
  • lol lol LoL lol lol
  • nested squares blue text
  • pixel art humor icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • lol

Wordwall

  • blue
  • squares
  • nested outlines
  • text
  • 'lol'
  • vertical alignment
  • pixelated
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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
20071108212913868996958
Archive entry
20071108212913868996958.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071108212913868996958.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071108212913868996958.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016