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A pink background displays multiple instances of blue text 'samm' with a blue ':)' emoticon below, surrounded by yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters.

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A pink background displays multiple instances of blue text 'samm' with a blue ':)' emoticon below, surrounded by yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters.

A pink background displays multiple instances of blue text 'samm' with a blue ':)' emoticon below, surrounded by yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes across observations.

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical placement

Dense Caption

The image features a solid pink background with multiple identical blue text elements reading 'samm' arranged in a grid pattern. Each 'samm' text element is positioned above a blue ':)' emoticon. Surrounding these elements are yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines extending from their corners. The star clusters appear in different positions across the grid, with some stars being yellow and others orange. The overall composition is a static arrangement of text and pixel art elements on a uniform pink background.

Description

A pink background displays multiple instances of blue text 'samm' with a blue ':)' emoticon below, surrounded by yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • samm emoticon pink background
  • blue text yellow stars
  • pixel art
  • samm :)
  • pink background star clusters
  • blue text
  • samm emoticon star clusters
  • blue :), pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: blue text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid

Visible Text

  • samm
  • :)

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue text 'samm'
  • blue ':)' emoticon
  • yellow star clusters
  • orange star clusters
  • dotted lines
  • arrangement
  • pixel art style
  • uniform background
  • text and symbol composition

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080706171007858964398
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
849 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/607d32387c72f0a0139dd3b0bae2f2e91da68602a31ca7b1fde9aa0762152b52.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
607d32387c72f0a0
SHA-256
607d32387c72f0a0139dd3b0bae2f2e91da68602a31ca7b1fde9aa0762152b52
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098117

OpenAI category scores

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A pink background displays multiple instances of blue text 'samm' with a blue ':)' emoticon below, surrounded by yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,561 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 746

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted lines (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • emoticon (subject, 0.80)
  • star clusters (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes across observations.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical placement

Dense Caption

The image features a solid pink background with multiple identical blue text elements reading 'samm' arranged in a grid pattern. Each 'samm' text element is positioned above a blue ':)' emoticon. Surrounding these elements are yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines extending from their corners. The star clusters appear in different positions across the grid, with some stars being yellow and others orange. The overall composition is a static arrangement of text and pixel art elements on a uniform pink background.

Description

A pink background displays multiple instances of blue text 'samm' with a blue ':)' emoticon below, surrounded by yellow and orange star-shaped pixel clusters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue text yellow stars
  • pixel art
  • samm :)
  • pink background star clusters
  • blue text
  • samm emoticon star clusters
  • blue :), pink background

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  • text
  • emoticon
  • star clusters
  • dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: blue text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • emoticon
  • star clusters

Visible Text

  • samm
  • :)

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue text 'samm'
  • blue ':)' emoticon
  • yellow star clusters
  • orange star clusters
  • dotted lines
  • arrangement
  • pixel art style
  • uniform background
  • text and symbol composition
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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
20080706171007858964398
Archive entry
20080706171007858964398.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080706171007858964398.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080706171007858964398.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016