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Red background with repeating black text and scattered white/pink stars; gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Red background with repeating black text and scattered white/pink stars; gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Red background with repeating black text and scattered white/pink stars; gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four vertical of text
  • star scattering across background
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Solid red background fills the entire frame. Four vertical columns of identical black pixelated text repeat: 'K3', 'A3', 'T3', 'I3', 'E3' from top to bottom. White five-pointed stars and smaller pink stars are scattered across the red field, with some white stars appearing slightly larger than others. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. The text columns maintain consistent spacing between characters and rows.

Description

  • Red background with repeating black text and scattered white/pink stars; gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 200810211127291695789792

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text stars gray rectangle
  • repeating K3 A3 T3 I3 E3
  • white pink star scattering red field
  • gray rectangle bottom right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text columns
  • quarantined style: grid-like text layout
  • quarantined composition: four vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating K3 A3 T3 I3 E3 columns

Visible Text

  • K3
  • A3
  • T3
  • I3
  • E3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white stars
  • pink stars
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating 'K3' 'A3' 'T3' 'I3' 'E3'
  • text
  • star scattering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810211127291695789792
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
902 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/4184585e199c91cd3384c5c2acf3c668f211e5066e7433ca5d53478930f89f22.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
4184585e199c91cd
SHA-256
4184585e199c91cd3384c5c2acf3c668f211e5066e7433ca5d53478930f89f22
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105880

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with repeating black text and scattered white/pink stars; gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,044 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,127, response 679

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • like text layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • four vertical of text
  • star scattering across background
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Solid red background fills the entire frame. Four vertical columns of identical black pixelated text repeat: 'K3', 'A3', 'T3', 'I3', 'E3' from top to bottom. White five-pointed stars and smaller pink stars are scattered across the red field, with some white stars appearing slightly larger than others. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. The text columns maintain consistent spacing between characters and rows.

Description

  • Red background with repeating black text and scattered white/pink stars; gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 200810211127291695789792

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text stars gray rectangle
  • repeating K3 A3 T3 I3 E3
  • white pink star scattering red field
  • gray rectangle bottom right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text columns
  • quarantined style: grid-like text layout
  • quarantined composition: four vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating K3 A3 T3 I3 E3 columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • like text layout

Visible Text

  • K3
  • A3
  • T3
  • I3
  • E3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white stars
  • pink stars
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating 'K3' 'A3' 'T3' 'I3' 'E3'
  • text
  • star scattering
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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
200810211127291695789792
Archive entry
200810211127291695789792.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810211127291695789792.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810211127291695789792.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016