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Bright pink background with four blue 'Vern' text labels and faint star shapes, static image.

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Bright pink background with four blue 'Vern' text labels and faint star shapes, static image.

Bright pink background with four blue 'Vern' text labels and faint star shapes, static image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text elements at corners
  • star shapes scattered throughout background

Dense Caption

Solid bright pink background contains four distinct blue pixelated text instances reading 'Vern', positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Faint semi-transparent light pink star shapes are scattered across the background between the text elements. All visual content is static with no motion or animation changes observed.

Description

  • Bright pink background with four blue 'Vern' text labels and faint star shapes, static image.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712022034571912086879

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background vern text stars
  • four vern texts pink star background
  • pixelated vern blue on bright pink

Visible Text

  • Vern

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • four blue 'Vern' texts
  • semi-transparent stars
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712022034571912086879
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 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 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
29b33592bd2fc5d5
SHA-256
29b33592bd2fc5d59892b32b6b182127b4d7a14daa69609ee5bb11b78a294043
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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 23:04 UTC
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
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Bright pink background with four blue 'Vern' text labels and faint star shapes, static image.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 22:47 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,133 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 602

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • blue
  • light pink

Composition

  • four text elements at corners
  • star shapes scattered throughout background

Dense Caption

Solid bright pink background contains four distinct blue pixelated text instances reading 'Vern', positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Faint semi-transparent light pink star shapes are scattered across the background between the text elements. All visual content is static with no motion or animation changes observed.

Description

  • Bright pink background with four blue 'Vern' text labels and faint star shapes, static image.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712022034571912086879

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background vern text stars
  • four vern texts pink star background
  • pixelated vern blue on bright pink

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • static image

Visible Text

  • Vern

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • four blue 'Vern' texts
  • semi-transparent stars
  • pixelated font
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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
200712022034571912086879
Archive entry
200712022034571912086879.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712022034571912086879.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712022034571912086879.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016