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Black background with white pixelated text 'maria' and small square-dot patterns in four corners.

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Black background with white pixelated text 'maria' and small square-dot patterns in four corners.

Black background with white pixelated text 'maria' and small square-dot patterns in four corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical corner patterns
  • two horizontal text blocks

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with the word 'maria' rendered in white, low-resolution, pixelated lettering. Four identical corner elements appear: each consists of three stacked squares (top-left), two smaller squares (middle), and one dot (bottom). The text 'maria' is repeated twice horizontally across the middle section. All visual elements are static with no discernible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'maria' and small square-dot patterns in four corners.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white text maria
  • pixelated maria corner patterns
  • four square-dot elements
  • repeated horizontal maria

Visible Text

  • maria

Visually Supported Entities

  • maria

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'maria'
  • four corner square-dot patterns
  • repeated horizontal text
  • low-resolution rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909151419793764374
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 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b49ae3936e66e90543fe5099f0a0c12cc76e3edf5225e968bfa42bc38a3da31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
3b49ae3936e66e90
SHA-256
3b49ae3936e66e90543fe5099f0a0c12cc76e3edf5225e968bfa42bc38a3da31
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087249

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text 'maria' and small square-dot patterns in four corners.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:47 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,416 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 574

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • square dot corner elements (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text maria (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four identical corner patterns
  • two horizontal text blocks

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with the word 'maria' rendered in white, low-resolution, pixelated lettering. Four identical corner elements appear: each consists of three stacked squares (top-left), two smaller squares (middle), and one dot (bottom). The text 'maria' is repeated twice horizontally across the middle section. All visual elements are static with no discernible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'maria' and small square-dot patterns in four corners.

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

Mood

  • minimalist
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white text maria
  • pixelated maria corner patterns
  • four square-dot elements
  • repeated horizontal maria

Objects

  • square-dot corner elements

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text 'maria'

Visible Text

  • maria

Visually Supported Entities

  • maria

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'maria'
  • four corner square-dot patterns
  • repeated horizontal text
  • low-resolution rendering
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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
20070909151419793764374
Archive entry
20070909151419793764374.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#20070909151419793764374.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070909151419793764374.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016