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Black background with pink plus signs scattered throughout, white text reading 'A is for AWESOME' repeated twice in pixelated font.

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Black background with pink plus signs scattered throughout, white text reading 'A is for AWESOME' repeated twice in pixelated font.

Black background with pink plus signs scattered throughout, white text reading 'A is for AWESOME' repeated twice in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • scattered plus signs
  • symmetrical arrangement of elements

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple small pink plus signs (asterisks) distributed across the frame. Two identical horizontal lines of white pixelated text appear: top line reads 'A is for AWESOME', bottom line repeats 'AWESOME A is for'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution digital font typical of early 2000s graphics. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with pink plus signs scattered throughout, white text reading 'A is for AWESOME' repeated twice in pixelated font.

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
  • 20071019221724256940920

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background pink plus signs white text
  • A is for AWESOME repeated twice
  • pixelated digital graphics
  • scattered asterisks

Visible Text

  • A is for AWESOME
  • AWESOME A is for

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink plus signs
  • white pixelated text
  • A is for AWESOME
  • repeated twice

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071019221724256940920
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5c1949e5647c29657d752c6778cdaf2c24c97a2df9459ff609014c68bdbc78bc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
5c1949e5647c2965
SHA-256
5c1949e5647c29657d752c6778cdaf2c24c97a2df9459ff609014c68bdbc78bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119859

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with pink plus signs scattered throughout, white text reading 'A is for AWESOME' repeated twice in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,596 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 639

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • scattered plus signs
  • symmetrical arrangement of elements

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple small pink plus signs (asterisks) distributed across the frame. Two identical horizontal lines of white pixelated text appear: top line reads 'A is for AWESOME', bottom line repeats 'AWESOME A is for'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution digital font typical of early 2000s graphics. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with pink plus signs scattered throughout, white text reading 'A is for AWESOME' repeated twice in pixelated font.

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
  • 20071019221724256940920

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background pink plus signs white text
  • A is for AWESOME repeated twice
  • pixelated digital graphics
  • scattered asterisks

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • repetitive text layout

Visible Text

  • A is for AWESOME
  • AWESOME A is for

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink plus signs
  • white pixelated text
  • A is for AWESOME
  • repeated twice
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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
20071019221724256940920
Archive entry
20071019221724256940920.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071019221724256940920.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071019221724256940920.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016