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Bright pink background with white stars and cyan text reading "first middle last" in pixelated font, with small cyan hearts scattered throughout.

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Bright pink background with white stars and cyan text reading "first middle last" in pixelated font, with small cyan hearts scattered throughout.

Bright pink background with white stars and cyan text reading "first middle last" in pixelated font, with small cyan hearts scattered throughout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text shifts
  • star shifts

Animation Summary

  • Text and star positions shift slightly between observations.

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered
  • hearts scattered

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered white stars and small cyan hearts. Cyan pixelated text reads "first" on top, "middle" in the middle, and "last" at the bottom. Text and star positions shift slightly between observations. All elements are static except for minor positional changes of text and stars.

Description

Bright pink background with white stars and cyan text reading "first middle last" in pixelated font, with small cyan hearts scattered throughout.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200708130810221666466592

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background cyan text stars hearts
  • first middle last pixelated text
  • cyan hearts white stars pink background
  • text shifts star shifts animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • first
  • middle
  • last

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • first middle last
  • small hearts
  • pixelated font
  • text shifts
  • star shifts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708130810221666466592
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/4313bb2d35693982ccb28696257bc0a87f8a688b04e0218a16be4c5efdb4f755.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
4313bb2d35693982
SHA-256
4313bb2d35693982ccb28696257bc0a87f8a688b04e0218a16be4c5efdb4f755
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095437

OpenAI category scores

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

Bright pink background with white stars and cyan text reading "first middle last" in pixelated font, with small cyan hearts scattered throughout.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:55 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,108 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 763

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • star shifts (other, 0.80)
  • text shifts (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static animation (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • text shifts
  • star shifts

Animation Summary

  • Text and star positions shift slightly between observations.

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered
  • hearts scattered

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered white stars and small cyan hearts. Cyan pixelated text reads "first" on top, "middle" in the middle, and "last" at the bottom. Text and star positions shift slightly between observations. All elements are static except for minor positional changes of text and stars.

Description

Bright pink background with white stars and cyan text reading "first middle last" in pixelated font, with small cyan hearts scattered throughout.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200708130810221666466592

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background cyan text stars hearts
  • first middle last pixelated text
  • cyan hearts white stars pink background
  • text shifts star shifts animation

Objects

  • stars
  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static animation

Visible Text

  • first
  • middle
  • last

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • first middle last
  • small hearts
  • pixelated font
  • text shifts
  • star shifts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:26 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708130810221666466592
Archive entry
200708130810221666466592.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708130810221666466592.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708130810221666466592.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016