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Static image with black background covered in repeating pink star shapes, white text 'paige' repeated across the image, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Static image with black background covered in repeating pink star shapes, white text 'paige' repeated across the image, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Static image with black background covered in repeating pink star shapes, white text 'paige' repeated across the image, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Anim…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • stars fill background
  • text repeated in
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background filled with uniformly spaced, repeating pink star shapes. White text 'paige' appears in multiple locations across the image, rendered in a pixelated font. The text is repeated in a grid-like arrangement. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the image. No visible animation or motion changes. The image contains no additional subjects, objects, or symbols beyond the stars, text, and gray rectangle.

Description

Static image with black background covered in repeating pink star shapes, white text 'paige' repeated across the image, and a solid gray rectangle in the 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink star background
  • white paige text
  • gray rectangle corner
  • pixelated text
  • repeating star pattern
  • black background
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • text paige repeated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text repeated in grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • paige

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink stars
  • white text 'paige'
  • repeating stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • arrangement
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070903162958988940729
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41b27c0094aafa8515f274f45db5e3e0a0e803dc85e805d8d0a4ac9c55e9a27c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
41b27c0094aafa85
SHA-256
41b27c0094aafa8515f274f45db5e3e0a0e803dc85e805d8d0a4ac9c55e9a27c
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
0.108220

OpenAI category scores

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

Static image with black background covered in repeating pink star shapes, white text 'paige' repeated across the image, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,971 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • stars fill background
  • text repeated in
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background filled with uniformly spaced, repeating pink star shapes. White text 'paige' appears in multiple locations across the image, rendered in a pixelated font. The text is repeated in a grid-like arrangement. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the image. No visible animation or motion changes. The image contains no additional subjects, objects, or symbols beyond the stars, text, and gray rectangle.

Description

Static image with black background covered in repeating pink star shapes, white text 'paige' repeated across the image, and a solid gray rectangle in the 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink star background
  • white paige text
  • gray rectangle corner
  • pixelated text
  • repeating star pattern
  • black background
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • text paige repeated

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text repeated in grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • paige

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink stars
  • white text 'paige'
  • repeating stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • arrangement
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:06 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
20070903162958988940729
Archive entry
20070903162958988940729.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070903162958988940729.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070903162958988940729.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016