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Pixelated cyan text on black background with pink asterisks below, showing repeated phrases and a single purple asterisk in the sequence.

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with pink asterisks below, showing repeated phrases and a single purple asterisk in the sequence.

Pixelated cyan text on black background with pink asterisks below, showing repeated phrases and a single purple asterisk in the sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • three horizontal text
  • two identical asterisk sequences below
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated cyan text arranged in three horizontal rows. Top row repeats 'kpo a' multiple times; middle row shows 'plam9'; bottom row reads 'a just kpo'. Below these rows are two identical sequences of five pink asterisks each, with the third asterisk from left being purple instead of pink. The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with pink asterisks below, showing repeated phrases and a single purple asterisk in the sequence.

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
  • 20080403155913829432426

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink asterisks
  • kpo a plam9 a just kpo
  • pixelated cyan text with purple asterisk
  • repeated 'kpo a' and 'a just kpo'

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; source hints reference 'franksicons.com' and '2007-2016', but pixel evidence shows no identifiable characters or logos
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom row 'a just kpo'
  • quarantined wordwall: middle row 'plam9'
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal text rows

Visible Text

  • kpo a
  • plam9
  • a just kpo

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pink asterisks
  • purple asterisk
  • pixelated
  • repeated 'kpo a'
  • middle 'plam9'
  • bottom 'a just kpo'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080403155913829432426
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/15/158c6461f86620e77ce995f804ed8ed021744928ddf8189d54a10c813cd28620.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
158c6461f86620e7
SHA-256
158c6461f86620e77ce995f804ed8ed021744928ddf8189d54a10c813cd28620
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097103

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with pink asterisks below, showing repeated phrases and a single purple asterisk in the sequence.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,647 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 704

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • three horizontal text
  • two identical asterisk sequences below
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated cyan text arranged in three horizontal rows. Top row repeats 'kpo a' multiple times; middle row shows 'plam9'; bottom row reads 'a just kpo'. Below these rows are two identical sequences of five pink asterisks each, with the third asterisk from left being purple instead of pink. The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with pink asterisks below, showing repeated phrases and a single purple asterisk in the sequence.

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
  • 20080403155913829432426

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink asterisks
  • kpo a plam9 a just kpo
  • pixelated cyan text with purple asterisk
  • repeated 'kpo a' and 'a just kpo'

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; source hints reference 'franksicons.com' and '2007-2016', but pixel evidence shows no identifiable characters or logos
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom row 'a just kpo'
  • quarantined wordwall: middle row 'plam9'
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • kpo a
  • plam9
  • a just kpo

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pink asterisks
  • purple asterisk
  • pixelated
  • repeated 'kpo a'
  • middle 'plam9'
  • bottom 'a just kpo'
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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
20080403155913829432426
Archive entry
20080403155913829432426.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080403155913829432426.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080403155913829432426.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016