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Purple background with yellow starbursts and repeated white pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.'

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Purple background with yellow starbursts and repeated white pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.'

Purple background with yellow starbursts and repeated white pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two horizontal of text
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with scattered yellow four-pointed starbursts. White pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.' appears in two horizontal rows, each containing two identical phrases. The text has a slightly blurred or distorted appearance, with some characters showing partial pixelation. The starbursts are distributed across the background, with varying sizes and positions. The overall style is retro digital, reminiscent of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Purple background with yellow starbursts and repeated white pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.'

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background yellow starbursts
  • I see you I see you sparkle
  • pixelated text starbursts
  • retro digital style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: two horizontal rows of text

Visible Text

  • I see you. I see you sparkle.

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • yellow starbursts
  • white pixelated text
  • I see you. I see you sparkle.
  • two horizontal
  • retro digital style
  • scattered starbursts
  • pixelated characters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201008111551411508734984
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6cc6cf355c06a3ddb2d6727ed45bd1e2d543d2537cce67c1b512d7cbe3cca7e7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
6cc6cf355c06a3dd
SHA-256
6cc6cf355c06a3ddb2d6727ed45bd1e2d543d2537cce67c1b512d7cbe3cca7e7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111253

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Purple background with yellow starbursts and repeated white pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.'

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,692 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 656

Review tags

  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • two horizontal of text
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with scattered yellow four-pointed starbursts. White pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.' appears in two horizontal rows, each containing two identical phrases. The text has a slightly blurred or distorted appearance, with some characters showing partial pixelation. The starbursts are distributed across the background, with varying sizes and positions. The overall style is retro digital, reminiscent of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Purple background with yellow starbursts and repeated white pixelated text reading 'I see you. I see you sparkle.'

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background yellow starbursts
  • I see you I see you sparkle
  • pixelated text starbursts
  • retro digital style

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: two horizontal rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • I see you. I see you sparkle.

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • yellow starbursts
  • white pixelated text
  • I see you. I see you sparkle.
  • two horizontal
  • retro digital style
  • scattered starbursts
  • pixelated characters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:02 UTC
Run
61
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201008111551411508734984
Archive entry
201008111551411508734984.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201008111551411508734984.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201008111551411508734984.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016