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Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines

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Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines

Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • star clusters at edges
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a grid pattern across the image. Six orange star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines extend from the corners and midpoints of the image edges. Three additional pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines are positioned between the text rows. The text "Meg" appears in a rounded, pixelated font with yellow fill and subtle internal shading. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background yellow text Meg
  • pixelated Meg text
  • star clusters dotted lines
  • yellow text pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a grid pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Meg text grid

Visible Text

  • Meg

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow text
  • text "Meg"
  • orange stars
  • pink stars
  • dotted lines
  • pixelated font
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • star clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708281233382030494197
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/3c/3ca2ed857a82a75c47f6ee7e3c8c6f8a224f3d34fbb780822665a57735481c59.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
3ca2ed857a82a75c
SHA-256
3ca2ed857a82a75c47f6ee7e3c8c6f8a224f3d34fbb780822665a57735481c59
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082527

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,539 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,171, response 681

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted lines (object, 0.80)
  • star clusters (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text meg (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • text
  • star clusters at edges
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a grid pattern across the image. Six orange star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines extend from the corners and midpoints of the image edges. Three additional pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines are positioned between the text rows. The text "Meg" appears in a rounded, pixelated font with yellow fill and subtle internal shading. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background yellow text Meg
  • pixelated Meg text
  • star clusters dotted lines
  • yellow text pink background

Objects

  • star clusters
  • dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Bright pink background with yellow pixelated text "Meg" repeated in a grid pattern, surrounded by orange and pink star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Meg text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text "Meg"

Visible Text

  • Meg

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow text
  • text "Meg"
  • orange stars
  • pink stars
  • dotted lines
  • pixelated font
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • star clusters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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
200708281233382030494197
Archive entry
200708281233382030494197.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708281233382030494197.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708281233382030494197.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016