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A four- displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background

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A four- displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background

A four- displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • icon placement bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid red background, black pixelated text 'steve is awesome', small white five-pointed star icon at bottom-right corner. Top-right panel: solid light pink background, identical black pixelated text 'steve is awesome'. Bottom-left panel: solid white background, identical black pixelated text 'steve is awesome', small red five-pointed star icon at bottom-right corner. Bottom-right panel: solid light pink background, identical black pixelated text 'steve is awesome'. All panels use the same font style and size; only background color and star color differ between top-left and bottom-left panels.

Description

  • A four- displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background

Identity Hypotheses

  • steve is a person or character name

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080422164820806194258
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • steve is awesome star icon
  • red pink white background text
  • pixel art steve is awesome
  • four steve is awesome

Objects

  • star icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel steve is awesome
  • quarantined retrieval: red pink white background text grid

Subjects

  • star icon

Visible Text

  • steve is awesome

Visually Supported Entities

  • steve

Wordwall

  • red background
  • light pink background
  • white background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'steve is awesome'
  • five-pointed stars
  • small icons
  • text alignment center

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080422164820806194258
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
667 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69fcd5844c0223760bae22e427ff65a4d2b35a232997b6b4df7b7436b711dbf3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
69fcd5844c022376
SHA-256
69fcd5844c0223760bae22e427ff65a4d2b35a232997b6b4df7b7436b711dbf3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087960

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A four- displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,393 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 716

Review tags

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  • star icon (subject, 0.80)

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  • red
  • light pink
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • icon placement bottom-right

Dense Caption

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Description

  • A four- displays 'steve is awesome' text with a white star on red background and a red star on white background

Identity Hypotheses

  • steve is a person or character name

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080422164820806194258
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • affirmative

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  • red pink white background text
  • pixel art steve is awesome
  • four steve is awesome

Objects

  • star icon

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • steve is awesome

Visually Supported Entities

  • steve

Wordwall

  • red background
  • light pink background
  • white background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'steve is awesome'
  • five-pointed stars
  • small icons
  • text alignment center
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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
20080422164820806194258
Archive entry
20080422164820806194258.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080422164820806194258.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080422164820806194258.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016