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Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a pattern

Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Source terms

Composition

  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • solid rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars. Repeated black text 'a.W.g' appears in a grid pattern across the image. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes. The text 'a.W.g' is consistently displayed in all visible sections of the image.

Description

  • Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a pattern

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a.W.g pink background yellow stars
  • yellow stars pink background a.W.g
  • a.W.g pattern
  • pink background yellow stars gray rectangle
  • a.W.g pixelated font
  • yellow stars pattern
  • a.W.g gray rectangle
  • pink background pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: pink background grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow stars grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: a.W.g grid pattern

Visible Text

  • a.W.g

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow stars
  • black text
  • a.W.g
  • pixelated font
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • bottom-right corner
  • static image
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806121651591375132739
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34d8451f6a0b12e0c8a112b79579b759c5b2f8fe95ebb3c6a40866b9a6888375.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
34d8451f6a0b12e0
SHA-256
34d8451f6a0b12e0c8a112b79579b759c5b2f8fe95ebb3c6a40866b9a6888375
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 12:01 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010145

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.165672

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Enrichment records (1)
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Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,887 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 662

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • solid rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars. Repeated black text 'a.W.g' appears in a grid pattern across the image. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes. The text 'a.W.g' is consistently displayed in all visible sections of the image.

Description

  • Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a pattern

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

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  • yellow stars pink background a.W.g
  • a.W.g pattern
  • pink background yellow stars gray rectangle
  • a.W.g pixelated font
  • yellow stars pattern
  • a.W.g gray rectangle
  • pink background pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static image with pink background covered in yellow stars, displaying repeated black text 'a.W.g' in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: pink background grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow stars grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: a.W.g grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • a.W.g

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow stars
  • black text
  • a.W.g
  • pixelated font
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • bottom-right corner
  • static image
  • repeated text
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200806121651591375132739
Archive entry
200806121651591375132739.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806121651591375132739.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806121651591375132739.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016