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Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background with animated star changes.

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Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background with animated star changes.

Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background with animated star changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • Center star changes from purple to pink between frames; all other elements identical.

Composition

  • top to bottom text stack
  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated text: top row 'iLY', second row 'Mich', third row two overlapping '8' shapes, fourth row 'KoTie43'. Fifth row has five stars below the text; leftmost four are pink, center is purple in first frame and pink in second frame. All other elements identical between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background with animated star changes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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
  • 200711040724111454231909
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text black background
  • 88 stars center color change
  • KoTie43 iLY Mich 88

Objects

  • 8s

Visible Text

  • iLY
  • Mich
  • 88
  • KoTie43

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • five stars
  • two overlapping 8s
  • center star changes color

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711040724111454231909
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/46/460d030de8169ab6f7b919768d149890870dcf057c1fd258dc7b155cf325a8d8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
460d030de8169ab6
SHA-256
460d030de8169ab6f7b919768d149890870dcf057c1fd258dc7b155cf325a8d8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126437

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background with animated star changes.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,784 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 523

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • 8s (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • Center star changes from purple to pink between frames; all other elements identical.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • top to bottom text stack
  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated text: top row 'iLY', second row 'Mich', third row two overlapping '8' shapes, fourth row 'KoTie43'. Fifth row has five stars below the text; leftmost four are pink, center is purple in first frame and pink in second frame. All other elements identical between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and symbols on black background with animated star changes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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
  • 200711040724111454231909
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text black background
  • 88 stars center color change
  • KoTie43 iLY Mich 88

Objects

  • stars
  • 8s

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • iLY
  • Mich
  • 88
  • KoTie43

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • five stars
  • two overlapping 8s
  • center star changes color
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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
200711040724111454231909
Archive entry
200711040724111454231909.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711040724111454231909.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711040724111454231909.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016