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Pixelated text and green square icons on a purple background with repeated patterns.

Pixelated text and green square icons on a purple background with repeated patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four quadrants
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of pixelated blue text reading "so dorky 8B" arranged in four quadrants against a solid purple background. Green square-based icon elements appear at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-center positions, each consisting of small squares forming abstract shapes with dots below them. The green icons are identical across all instances and maintain consistent spacing relative to the text blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated text and green square icons on a purple background with repeated patterns.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080124152029160931282

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue text green icons
  • so dorky 8B pixel art
  • repeating pattern square icons
  • pixelated text four quadrants

Visible Text

  • so dorky 8B

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • blue pixelated text
  • "so dorky 8B"
  • green square icons
  • repeating pattern
  • four quadrants
  • small squares forming shapes
  • dots below icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080124152029160931282
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 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 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
ff9e8a2a23cc843e
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073704

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Pixelated text and green square icons on a purple background with repeated patterns.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:42 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,647 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 634

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • icon elements (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four quadrants
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of pixelated blue text reading "so dorky 8B" arranged in four quadrants against a solid purple background. Green square-based icon elements appear at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-center positions, each consisting of small squares forming abstract shapes with dots below them. The green icons are identical across all instances and maintain consistent spacing relative to the text blocks.

Description

  • Pixelated text and green square icons on a purple background with repeated patterns.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080124152029160931282

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue text green icons
  • so dorky 8B pixel art
  • repeating pattern square icons
  • pixelated text four quadrants

Objects

  • square-based icon structures

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • icon elements

Visible Text

  • so dorky 8B

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • blue pixelated text
  • "so dorky 8B"
  • green square icons
  • repeating pattern
  • four quadrants
  • small squares forming shapes
  • dots below icons
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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
20080124152029160931282
Archive entry
20080124152029160931282.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080124152029160931282.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080124152029160931282.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016