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A static image with a purple background displays repeated text and symbols in white and cyan.

A static image with a purple background displays repeated text and symbols in white and cyan. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four identical vertical sections side-by-side
  • centered text and symbols within each section

Dense Caption

The image has a solid purple background. Four identical vertical sections are arranged side-by-side, each containing the same sequence of elements: at the top, a white '<3' symbol followed by a small cyan square cluster; below that, three lines of white pixelated text reading 'ALLY', 'NICOLE', and 'JONES'; then another white '<3' symbol next to a small cyan square cluster; finally, a larger cyan square cluster. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • A static image with a purple background displays repeated text and symbols in white and cyan.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ally nicole jones
  • <3 symbols purple background
  • cyan square clusters white text
  • repeated vertical sections

Visible Text

  • ALLY
  • NICOLE
  • JONES
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALLY NICOLE JONES

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • cyan square clusters
  • <3 symbols
  • ALLY NICOLE JONES text
  • repeated vertical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2011112512524870049137
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
527 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fa28bdb1c7a65951ae8a599fa6265b63a5ec90a9c34b512aefc665a3db0c7d87.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
fa28bdb1c7a65951
SHA-256
fa28bdb1c7a65951ae8a599fa6265b63a5ec90a9c34b512aefc665a3db0c7d87
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.081445

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a purple background displays repeated text and symbols in white and cyan.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,254 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 582

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • square clusters (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • four identical vertical sections side-by-side
  • centered text and symbols within each section

Dense Caption

The image has a solid purple background. Four identical vertical sections are arranged side-by-side, each containing the same sequence of elements: at the top, a white '<3' symbol followed by a small cyan square cluster; below that, three lines of white pixelated text reading 'ALLY', 'NICOLE', and 'JONES'; then another white '<3' symbol next to a small cyan square cluster; finally, a larger cyan square cluster. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • A static image with a purple background displays repeated text and symbols in white and cyan.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ally nicole jones
  • <3 symbols purple background
  • cyan square clusters white text
  • repeated vertical sections

Objects

  • <3 symbols
  • square clusters

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • ALLY
  • NICOLE
  • JONES
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALLY NICOLE JONES

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • cyan square clusters
  • <3 symbols
  • ALLY NICOLE JONES text
  • repeated vertical sections
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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
2011112512524870049137
Archive entry
2011112512524870049137.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#2011112512524870049137.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2011112512524870049137.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016