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Pixelated text and green stars on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants with identical content.

Pixelated text and green stars on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants with identical content. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes across observations; all four quadrants display identical static text and star patterns.

Composition

  • identical quadrant repeats

Dense Caption

Cyan background filled with scattered green five-pointed stars. Four identical pixelated white text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid: each block contains 'megan' followed by a small heart symbol, then 'Andrew', then 'cute couple'. Text uses a retro digital font style. All four quadrants display the same content without visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text and green stars on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants with identical content.

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
  • 20080624181712255651768

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • megan Andrew cute couple cyan green stars
  • cute couple pixelated text cyan background
  • green stars cyan background megan Andrew heart
  • megan Andrew cute couple

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid megan Andrew cute couple

Visible Text

  • megan
  • heart symbol
  • Andrew
  • cute
  • couple

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green five-pointed stars
  • pixelated white text
  • retro digital font
  • megan heart Andrew
  • cute couple text
  • identical quadrant repeats

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080624181712255651768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e0a7933b96abc402a06f9f9ea8602b178a7e4ffe5d118c982b07f8999677413.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
3e0a7933b96abc40
SHA-256
3e0a7933b96abc402a06f9f9ea8602b178a7e4ffe5d118c982b07f8999677413
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 21, 2026 at 02:10 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010239

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 01:41 UTC
Run
1258
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
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107
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Pixelated text and green stars on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants with identical content.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,587 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 595

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • green five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes across observations; all four quadrants display identical static text and star patterns.

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • identical quadrant repeats

Dense Caption

Cyan background filled with scattered green five-pointed stars. Four identical pixelated white text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid: each block contains 'megan' followed by a small heart symbol, then 'Andrew', then 'cute couple'. Text uses a retro digital font style. All four quadrants display the same content without visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text and green stars on cyan background, repeated in four quadrants with identical content.

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
  • 20080624181712255651768

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • megan Andrew cute couple cyan green stars
  • cute couple pixelated text cyan background
  • green stars cyan background megan Andrew heart
  • megan Andrew cute couple

Objects

  • green five-pointed stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid megan Andrew cute couple

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • megan
  • heart symbol
  • Andrew
  • cute
  • couple

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green five-pointed stars
  • pixelated white text
  • retro digital font
  • megan heart Andrew
  • cute couple text
  • identical quadrant repeats
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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
20080624181712255651768
Archive entry
20080624181712255651768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080624181712255651768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080624181712255651768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016