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<333 ben icon with pink background and red stars, blue '333' text in the background, static image.

<333 ben icon with pink background and red stars, blue '333' text in the background, static image. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central black label with two lines of white text
  • background elements scattered around
  • gray square in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

<333 ben icon features a bright pink background with scattered red star shapes. Blue stylized '333' text appears behind the main elements. The central black rectangular label contains white '<333' text above white 'ben' text. A gray square occupies the bottom-right corner of the image, replacing part of the pink background in one view.

Description

  • <333 ben icon with pink background and red stars, blue '333' text in the background, static image.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <333 ben icon
  • pink background red stars blue 333
  • gray square pink background
  • <333 ben text

Visible Text

  • <333
  • ben

Visually Supported Entities

  • <333 ben

Wordwall

  • <333
  • ben
  • pink background
  • red stars
  • blue 333
  • gray square

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809141316351569873671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51655c90df21a02f6320f442b5e09001c081e1d29c8e01aecdd43d84f6aa777a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
51655c90df21a02f
SHA-256
51655c90df21a02f6320f442b5e09001c081e1d29c8e01aecdd43d84f6aa777a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 10:47 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000088

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 09:43 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
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1037
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<333 ben icon with pink background and red stars, blue '333' text in the background, static image.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,571 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 596

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • red star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • pink
  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central black label with two lines of white text
  • background elements scattered around
  • gray square in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

<333 ben icon features a bright pink background with scattered red star shapes. Blue stylized '333' text appears behind the main elements. The central black rectangular label contains white '<333' text above white 'ben' text. A gray square occupies the bottom-right corner of the image, replacing part of the pink background in one view.

Description

  • <333 ben icon with pink background and red stars, blue '333' text in the background, static image.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <333 ben icon
  • pink background red stars blue 333
  • gray square pink background
  • <333 ben text

Objects

  • red star shapes
  • blue '333' text
  • gray square

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • bright colors

Subjects

  • text '<333'
  • text 'ben'

Visible Text

  • <333
  • ben

Visually Supported Entities

  • <333 ben

Wordwall

  • <333
  • ben
  • pink background
  • red stars
  • blue 333
  • gray square
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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
200809141316351569873671
Archive entry
200809141316351569873671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809141316351569873671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809141316351569873671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016