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Red background with cyan text 'Vieux' and '>3', scattered stars in cyan, brown, and gray.

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Red background with cyan text 'Vieux' and '>3', scattered stars in cyan, brown, and gray.

Red background with cyan text 'Vieux' and '>3', scattered stars in cyan, brown, and gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text elements
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. Overlaid are multiple instances of the cyan text 'Vieux' followed by '>3'. Scattered across the scene are small star shapes: some cyan, some brown, and some gray. The stars appear to be static in position relative to each other.

Description

  • Red background with cyan text 'Vieux' and '>3', scattered stars in cyan, brown, and gray.

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
  • 20080104143559594452937

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text Vieux
  • Vieux >3 stars
  • cyan brown gray stars red
  • repeated Vieux text

Visible Text

  • Vieux
  • >3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text Vieux >3
  • scattered stars
  • cyan stars
  • brown stars
  • gray stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080104143559594452937
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
816 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/490d06b722653a5e06668454340a19fb64cb774b6ff302c8654a5837b70769d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
490d06b722653a5e
SHA-256
490d06b722653a5e06668454340a19fb64cb774b6ff302c8654a5837b70769d0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091254

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.935308onnx/unsafe0.091254onnx/nsfl0.048306onnx/nsfw0.042948
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Red background with cyan text 'Vieux' and '>3', scattered stars in cyan, brown, and gray.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,283 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,126, response 604

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • symbol 3 (subject, 0.80)
  • text vieux (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • cyan
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text elements
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. Overlaid are multiple instances of the cyan text 'Vieux' followed by '>3'. Scattered across the scene are small star shapes: some cyan, some brown, and some gray. The stars appear to be static in position relative to each other.

Description

  • Red background with cyan text 'Vieux' and '>3', scattered stars in cyan, brown, and gray.

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
  • 20080104143559594452937

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text Vieux
  • Vieux >3 stars
  • cyan brown gray stars red
  • repeated Vieux text

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text 'Vieux'
  • symbol '>3'

Visible Text

  • Vieux
  • >3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text Vieux >3
  • scattered stars
  • cyan stars
  • brown stars
  • gray stars
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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
20080104143559594452937
Archive entry
20080104143559594452937.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#20080104143559594452937.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080104143559594452937.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016