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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text 'exuse moi' and red star-shaped pixel art elements.

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Composition

  • two of three identical text blocks
  • stars scattered across background

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Repeated blue pixelated text 'exuse moi' arranged in two rows of three, each instance identical. Red star-shaped pixel art elements scattered across the background: some are static with dotted lines extending from their corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-left), others have a single red dot at one corner (middle-left, middle-right). All text and stars maintain consistent position and appearance across all visible frames.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text 'exuse moi' and red star-shaped pixel art elements.

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
  • 200709090624031115842300

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue text exuse moi
  • repeated exuse moi pixel art
  • red star dotted lines pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of three identical text blocks

Visible Text

  • exuse moi

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue pixelated text
  • 'exuse moi' repeated
  • red star shapes
  • dotted lines on stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709090624031115842300
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
1d5e1e3bb5b9e023
SHA-256
1d5e1e3bb5b9e023b0f4e97d268919c4b5e319a6034bb6ae392676542a61e759
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104585

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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text 'exuse moi' and red star-shaped pixel art elements.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:36 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,732 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,172, response 637

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • two of three identical text blocks
  • stars scattered across background

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Repeated blue pixelated text 'exuse moi' arranged in two rows of three, each instance identical. Red star-shaped pixel art elements scattered across the background: some are static with dotted lines extending from their corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-left), others have a single red dot at one corner (middle-left, middle-right). All text and stars maintain consistent position and appearance across all visible frames.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text 'exuse moi' and red star-shaped pixel art elements.

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
  • 200709090624031115842300

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue text exuse moi
  • repeated exuse moi pixel art
  • red star dotted lines pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of three identical text blocks

Style

  • pixel art
  • static
  • repetitive text layout

Visible Text

  • exuse moi

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue pixelated text
  • 'exuse moi' repeated
  • red star shapes
  • dotted lines on stars
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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
200709090624031115842300
Archive entry
200709090624031115842300.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709090624031115842300.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709090624031115842300.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016