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Yellow pixelated text MADISON MADISON spans top of blue background, with two identical <3 symbols and five pink/purple asterisks below each.

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Yellow pixelated text MADISON MADISON spans top of blue background, with two identical <3 symbols and five pink/purple asterisks below each.

Yellow pixelated text MADISON MADISON spans top of blue background, with two identical <3 symbols and five pink/purple asterisks below each. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal symmetry
  • top text
  • centered symbols
  • bottom asterisk

Dense Caption

Blue background. Yellow pixelated uppercase text "MADISON" repeated twice horizontally at the top. Centered beneath this are two identical yellow pixelated '<3' symbols (left-pointing chevron followed by number 3), one on the left side and one on the right side of the frame. Below each '<3' symbol is a horizontal row of five asterisks: first three pink, fourth purple, fifth pink. All elements maintain consistent spacing and alignment across observations.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text MADISON MADISON spans top of blue background, with two identical <3 symbols and five pink/purple asterisks below each.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802211642261921495364
  • 200802211643421647021965

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • madison madison yellow text
  • <3 symbols pink purple asterisks
  • blue background pixelated
  • 8-bit retro style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected in source pixels
  • quarantined composition: bottom asterisk rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Visible Text

  • MADISON

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • MADISON MADISON
  • blue background
  • <3 symbols
  • five asterisks per side
  • pink/purple color scheme

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802211642261921495364
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802211643421647021965
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
875 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/484edbd229fc183a03e00c41c43e382dc32544a4c4f10d0bb7a1e1fae70c42d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
484edbd229fc183a
SHA-256
484edbd229fc183a03e00c41c43e382dc32544a4c4f10d0bb7a1e1fae70c42d5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079526

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated text MADISON MADISON spans top of blue background, with two identical <3 symbols and five pink/purple asterisks below each.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,745 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,192, response 696

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • horizontal symmetry
  • top text
  • centered symbols
  • bottom asterisk

Dense Caption

Blue background. Yellow pixelated uppercase text "MADISON" repeated twice horizontally at the top. Centered beneath this are two identical yellow pixelated '<3' symbols (left-pointing chevron followed by number 3), one on the left side and one on the right side of the frame. Below each '<3' symbol is a horizontal row of five asterisks: first three pink, fourth purple, fifth pink. All elements maintain consistent spacing and alignment across observations.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text MADISON MADISON spans top of blue background, with two identical <3 symbols and five pink/purple asterisks below each.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802211642261921495364
  • 200802211643421647021965

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • madison madison yellow text
  • <3 symbols pink purple asterisks
  • blue background pixelated
  • 8-bit retro style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected in source pixels
  • quarantined composition: bottom asterisk rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Visible Text

  • MADISON

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • MADISON MADISON
  • blue background
  • <3 symbols
  • five asterisks per side
  • pink/purple color scheme
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Full source records (2)

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
200802211642261921495364
Archive entry
200802211642261921495364.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802211642261921495364.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802211642261921495364.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200802211643421647021965
Archive entry
200802211643421647021965.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802211643421647021965.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802211643421647021965.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016