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Yellow *iswim* text with asterisks on pink and cyan backgrounds, each with a small star icon below.

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Yellow *iswim* text with asterisks on pink and cyan backgrounds, each with a small star icon below.

Yellow *iswim* text with asterisks on pink and cyan backgrounds, each with a small star icon below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star icon alternates between cyan and magenta

Animation Summary

  • Star icon alternates between cyan and magenta across frames.

Composition

  • centered text
  • centered star icons
  • repeating pattern
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

*iswim* text in yellow with asterisks on pink background (top-left) and purple background (top-right), both with cyan star icon below; *iswim* text in yellow with asterisks on cyan background (bottom-left) and purple background (bottom-right), both with magenta star icon below; star icons alternate between cyan and magenta across backgrounds; all text and stars are pixelated; backgrounds are solid colors; text and stars are centered horizontally.

Description

  • Yellow *iswim* text with asterisks on pink and cyan backgrounds, each with a small star icon below.

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

  • *iswim* yellow text cyan star
  • *iswim* yellow text magenta star
  • yellow *iswim* cyan background
  • yellow *iswim* purple background
  • yellow *iswim* cyan background magenta star
  • yellow *iswim* purple background cyan star
  • cyan star *iswim* pink background
  • magenta star *iswim* cyan background

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • *iswim*

Wordwall

  • *iswim* text
  • yellow text
  • asterisks
  • cyan star
  • magenta star
  • pink background
  • cyan background
  • purple background
  • pixelated text
  • pixelated star
  • solid backgrounds
  • centered text
  • centered star
  • star icon
  • text with asterisks
  • yellow asterisks
  • cyan background star
  • magenta background star
  • star icon below text
  • text on pink
  • text on cyan
  • text on purple
  • yellow text on pink
  • yellow text on cyan
  • yellow text on purple
  • cyan star on pink
  • magenta star on cyan
  • cyan star on purple
  • magenta star on purple
  • star icon position
  • text position
  • background color
  • star color
  • text color
  • pixelated style
  • solid color backgrounds
  • centered composition
  • repeating pattern
  • text and star alignment
  • star icon variation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090302080538923344465
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6de3ff0f98481f9dc9f152408edf398dcc511a146f6b050a520c53c6c538d4c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
6de3ff0f98481f9d
SHA-256
6de3ff0f98481f9dc9f152408edf398dcc511a146f6b050a520c53c6c538d4c0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089783

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow *iswim* text with asterisks on pink and cyan backgrounds, each with a small star icon below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 929

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • asterisks (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star icon alternates between cyan and magenta

Animation Summary

  • Star icon alternates between cyan and magenta across frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • cyan
  • magenta
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • centered star icons
  • repeating pattern
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

*iswim* text in yellow with asterisks on pink background (top-left) and purple background (top-right), both with cyan star icon below; *iswim* text in yellow with asterisks on cyan background (bottom-left) and purple background (bottom-right), both with magenta star icon below; star icons alternate between cyan and magenta across backgrounds; all text and stars are pixelated; backgrounds are solid colors; text and stars are centered horizontally.

Description

  • Yellow *iswim* text with asterisks on pink and cyan backgrounds, each with a small star icon below.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • *iswim* yellow text cyan star
  • *iswim* yellow text magenta star
  • yellow *iswim* cyan background
  • yellow *iswim* purple background
  • yellow *iswim* cyan background magenta star
  • yellow *iswim* purple background cyan star
  • cyan star *iswim* pink background
  • magenta star *iswim* cyan background

Objects

  • asterisks

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text
  • star icons

Visible Text

  • *iswim*

Wordwall

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  • asterisks
  • cyan star
  • magenta star
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  • cyan background
  • purple background
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  • solid backgrounds
  • centered text
  • centered star
  • star icon
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  • cyan background star
  • magenta background star
  • star icon below text
  • text on pink
  • text on cyan
  • text on purple
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  • yellow text on cyan
  • yellow text on purple
  • cyan star on pink
  • magenta star on cyan
  • cyan star on purple
  • magenta star on purple
  • star icon position
  • text position
  • background color
  • star color
  • text color
  • pixelated style
  • solid color backgrounds
  • centered composition
  • repeating pattern
  • text and star alignment
  • star icon variation
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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
20090302080538923344465
Archive entry
20090302080538923344465.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090302080538923344465.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090302080538923344465.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016