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Pixelated text and purple stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Pixelated text and purple stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Pixelated text and purple stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • star scattering
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'BBAN', 'AMKCHS', and 'BFFL' in three rows across multiple grid positions. Purple pixelated stars scattered around text. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Text and stars maintain consistent positions across all visible frames. No animation detected; static image.

Description

  • Pixelated text and purple stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text black background
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • purple stars scattered
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: text rows grid layout

Visible Text

  • BBAN
  • AMKCHS
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink pixelated text
  • purple stars
  • gray rectangle
  • text
  • no animation
  • static image
  • pixelated stars

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709010812201537502034
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
924 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a0d592365c7e98bbc4eebe9c32a2eb1ecb44363a498560456d4f9c478841595.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
6a0d592365c7e98b
SHA-256
6a0d592365c7e98bbc4eebe9c32a2eb1ecb44363a498560456d4f9c478841595
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 08:59 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000042

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016049

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.456681

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text and purple stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 565

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • text
  • star scattering
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Black background with pink pixelated text reading 'BBAN', 'AMKCHS', and 'BFFL' in three rows across multiple grid positions. Purple pixelated stars scattered around text. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Text and stars maintain consistent positions across all visible frames. No animation detected; static image.

Description

  • Pixelated text and purple stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text black background
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • purple stars scattered
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: text rows grid layout

Style

  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • BBAN
  • AMKCHS
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink pixelated text
  • purple stars
  • gray rectangle
  • text
  • no animation
  • static image
  • pixelated stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:51 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200709010812201537502034
Archive entry
200709010812201537502034.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200709010812201537502034.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709010812201537502034.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016