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Red background with white pixelated text and pink star shapes, displaying repeated phrases like "*ahem* MOO!!" and partial lines of text.

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Red background with white pixelated text and pink star shapes, displaying repeated phrases like "*ahem* MOO!!" and partial lines of text.

Red background with white pixelated text and pink star shapes, displaying repeated phrases like "*ahem* MOO!!" and partial lines of text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text segments
  • scattered star shapes
  • repeated upper/lower sections

Dense Caption

*ahem* appears in white pixelated font at top-left and top-right; below it is "MOO!!" also in white pixelated font. Below that are two horizontal segments of partially visible white pixelated text reading "d i scare yd i scare y" (left) and "i scare yo" (right). Pink star shapes appear scattered across the red background, with some stars positioned near *ahem* and MOO!! text blocks. The same layout repeats in a lower section below the first set of text elements.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated text and pink star shapes, displaying repeated phrases like "*ahem* MOO!!" and partial lines of text.

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
  • 20080514174341350206106

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text pink stars
  • *ahem* MOO!! text
  • repeated layout partial text
  • pixelated star shapes

Visible Text

  • *ahem*
  • MOO!!
  • d i scare yd i scare y
  • i scare yo

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink star shapes
  • *ahem* text
  • MOO!! text
  • partial text segments
  • repeated layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080514174341350206106
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
664 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
5f2d25f8d3875012
SHA-256
5f2d25f8d38750123c187f8a47e79d2a39b81090aea45ac5ec5306861c765726
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.171129

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white pixelated text and pink star shapes, displaying repeated phrases like "*ahem* MOO!!" and partial lines of text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,995 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 679

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • horizontal text segments
  • scattered star shapes
  • repeated upper/lower sections

Dense Caption

*ahem* appears in white pixelated font at top-left and top-right; below it is "MOO!!" also in white pixelated font. Below that are two horizontal segments of partially visible white pixelated text reading "d i scare yd i scare y" (left) and "i scare yo" (right). Pink star shapes appear scattered across the red background, with some stars positioned near *ahem* and MOO!! text blocks. The same layout repeats in a lower section below the first set of text elements.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated text and pink star shapes, displaying repeated phrases like "*ahem* MOO!!" and partial lines of text.

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
  • 20080514174341350206106

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text pink stars
  • *ahem* MOO!! text
  • repeated layout partial text
  • pixelated star shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • *ahem*
  • MOO!!
  • d i scare yd i scare y
  • i scare yo

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink star shapes
  • *ahem* text
  • MOO!! text
  • partial text segments
  • repeated layout
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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
20080514174341350206106
Archive entry
20080514174341350206106.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080514174341350206106.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080514174341350206106.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016