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Purple background with cyan text "Mel" in four corners, pink heart and starburst shapes at top center and top right.

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Purple background with cyan text "Mel" in four corners, pink heart and starburst shapes at top center and top right.

Purple background with cyan text "Mel" in four corners, pink heart and starburst shapes at top center and top right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with four corner text and decorative shapes.

Composition

  • four-corner layout
  • centered vertical alignment of text and shapes

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Four instances of cyan pixelated text reading "Mel" positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. A small pink heart shape appears above the horizontal midline near the left side. A small pink starburst shape with six points appears in the upper right corner. A fainter pink dot cluster is visible below the center of the image. All text and shapes are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Purple background with cyan text "Mel" in four corners, pink heart and starburst shapes at top center and top right.

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
  • 20090822161256204314459

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cyan pink Mel
  • four Mel text corners
  • heart starburst dots purple background

Visible Text

  • Mel

Wordwall

  • cyan "Mel" text
  • purple background
  • pink heart shape
  • pink starburst shape
  • faint pink dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090822161256204314459
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
514 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/67a7434cf5795cf871a15041bf9b4ac83bd0da3836a09faec460bfba9dba6dee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
67a7434cf5795cf8
SHA-256
67a7434cf5795cf871a15041bf9b4ac83bd0da3836a09faec460bfba9dba6dee
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107215

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with cyan text "Mel" in four corners, pink heart and starburst shapes at top center and top right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,838 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 558

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with four corner text and decorative shapes.

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • four-corner layout
  • centered vertical alignment of text and shapes

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Four instances of cyan pixelated text reading "Mel" positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. A small pink heart shape appears above the horizontal midline near the left side. A small pink starburst shape with six points appears in the upper right corner. A fainter pink dot cluster is visible below the center of the image. All text and shapes are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Purple background with cyan text "Mel" in four corners, pink heart and starburst shapes at top center and top right.

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
  • 20090822161256204314459

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cyan pink Mel
  • four Mel text corners
  • heart starburst dots purple background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Mel

Wordwall

  • cyan "Mel" text
  • purple background
  • pink heart shape
  • pink starburst shape
  • faint pink dots
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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
20090822161256204314459
Archive entry
20090822161256204314459.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090822161256204314459.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090822161256204314459.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016