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Pixelated text and star shapes on a bright pink background with cyan stars scattered throughout.

Pixelated text and star shapes on a bright pink background with cyan stars scattered throughout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • scattered cyan stars on bright pink background
  • four identical text groups arranged in two of two

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with scattered cyan five-pointed stars. Four identical groups of pixelated white text appear: 'Aly' in lowercase, followed by '+' symbol, then 'Maddie', then '=bffeaee'. Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style. All elements are static; no visible animation changes across observations. Cyan stars vary slightly in size and position but maintain consistent color and shape.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star shapes on a bright pink background with cyan stars scattered throughout.

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
  • 200711111500511946725548
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink background cyan stars 'Aly' '+' 'Maddie' '=bffeaee' 8-bit
  • cyan stars bright pink text Aly Maddie bffeaee pixelated
  • pixelated white text bright pink background cyan five-pointed stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text groups arranged in two rows of two

Visible Text

  • Aly
  • +
  • Maddie
  • =bffeaee

Wordwall

  • cyan five-pointed stars
  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'Aly' lowercase
  • '+' symbol
  • 'Maddie' uppercase
  • '=bffeaee'
  • blocky 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711111500511946725548
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d880f6427f8f6ce273ddc267da9810a78f9ba0b9ff3f1ccaf3b80098373c4a7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Archive ID
4d880f6427f8f6ce
SHA-256
4d880f6427f8f6ce273ddc267da9810a78f9ba0b9ff3f1ccaf3b80098373c4a7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156639

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Pixelated text and star shapes on a bright pink background with cyan stars scattered throughout.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,496 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 599

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cyan five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • scattered cyan stars on bright pink background
  • four identical text groups arranged in two of two

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with scattered cyan five-pointed stars. Four identical groups of pixelated white text appear: 'Aly' in lowercase, followed by '+' symbol, then 'Maddie', then '=bffeaee'. Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style. All elements are static; no visible animation changes across observations. Cyan stars vary slightly in size and position but maintain consistent color and shape.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star shapes on a bright pink background with cyan stars scattered throughout.

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
  • 200711111500511946725548
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink background cyan stars 'Aly' '+' 'Maddie' '=bffeaee' 8-bit
  • cyan stars bright pink text Aly Maddie bffeaee pixelated
  • pixelated white text bright pink background cyan five-pointed stars

Objects

  • cyan five-pointed stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text groups arranged in two rows of two

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Visible Text

  • Aly
  • +
  • Maddie
  • =bffeaee

Wordwall

  • cyan five-pointed stars
  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'Aly' lowercase
  • '+' symbol
  • 'Maddie' uppercase
  • '=bffeaee'
  • blocky 8-bit style
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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
200711111500511946725548
Archive entry
200711111500511946725548.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 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#200711111500511946725548.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711111500511946725548.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016