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A split-screen image with four quadrants showing text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

A split-screen image with four quadrants showing text and star symbols on colored backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-left star changes from yellow to pink between frames
  • bottom-right star is absent in both frames

Animation Summary

  • The top-left star changes color from yellow to pink between frames; all other elements remain static.

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants
  • text and symbols arranged vertically in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant has a bright pink background with black pixelated text 'whittt', 'B?', 'ash', '=', 'bff+', and a yellow five-pointed star to the right of 'bff+'. Top-right quadrant has an orange background with identical black pixelated text but no star. Bottom-left quadrant has a bright yellow background with black pixelated text 'whittt', 'B?', 'ash', '=', 'bff+' and a pink five-pointed star to the right of 'bff+'. Bottom-right quadrant has an orange background with identical black pixelated text but no star. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A split-screen image with four quadrants showing text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

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
  • 200802021729121900817453

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • whittt bff+ ash
  • yellow star pink background
  • pink star yellow background
  • orange background text
  • pixelated text stars

Visible Text

  • whittt
  • B?
  • ash
  • =
  • bff+

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • bright pink background
  • bright yellow background
  • orange background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'whittt'
  • 'B?'
  • 'ash'
  • '='
  • 'bff+'
  • yellow five-pointed star
  • pink five-pointed star

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802021729121900817453
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5c85b98bc95b33ed79cd8dd51dfbf72c010222e110bab4cd609bb6fe2cc16627.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
5c85b98bc95b33ed
SHA-256
5c85b98bc95b33ed79cd8dd51dfbf72c010222e110bab4cd609bb6fe2cc16627
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107040

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A split-screen image with four quadrants showing text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,009 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 756

Review tags

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  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • bright yellow (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-left star changes from yellow to pink between frames
  • bottom-right star is absent in both frames

Animation Summary

  • The top-left star changes color from yellow to pink between frames; all other elements remain static.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • bright yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants
  • text and symbols arranged vertically in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant has a bright pink background with black pixelated text 'whittt', 'B?', 'ash', '=', 'bff+', and a yellow five-pointed star to the right of 'bff+'. Top-right quadrant has an orange background with identical black pixelated text but no star. Bottom-left quadrant has a bright yellow background with black pixelated text 'whittt', 'B?', 'ash', '=', 'bff+' and a pink five-pointed star to the right of 'bff+'. Bottom-right quadrant has an orange background with identical black pixelated text but no star. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A split-screen image with four quadrants showing text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

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
  • 200802021729121900817453

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • whittt bff+ ash
  • yellow star pink background
  • pink star yellow background
  • orange background text
  • pixelated text stars

Objects

  • five-pointed stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • whittt
  • B?
  • ash
  • =
  • bff+

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • bright pink background
  • bright yellow background
  • orange background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'whittt'
  • 'B?'
  • 'ash'
  • '='
  • 'bff+'
  • yellow five-pointed star
  • pink five-pointed star
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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
200802021729121900817453
Archive entry
200802021729121900817453.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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

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