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A static image with repeated text and star patterns on a light blue background.

A static image with repeated text and star patterns on a light blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three
  • repeated text
  • star pattern background
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with repeated text 'da bisteC way Z fall is... in luv with ME' in dark blue pixelated font across three columns. The background features a pattern of light blue stars on white. The rightmost column has a solid gray rectangular area replacing the text pattern. The text uses lowercase 'l' and 'u' in 'luv', and 'ME' is uppercase. The font is blocky and pixelated, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image with repeated text and star patterns on a light blue background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • repeated text 'da bisteC way Z fall is... in luv with ME'
  • light blue stars background
  • gray rectangle replacement
  • pixelated dark blue font
  • three layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three column layout

Visible Text

  • da bisteC
  • way Z
  • fall is...
  • in luv
  • with ME

Wordwall

  • repeated text
  • light blue stars
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • three
  • lowercase 'luv'
  • uppercase 'ME'
  • blocky font
  • static image
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802281943531473802197
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6e72527ac0894501b601af250146f054916074647018a78504aa75cd65a37264.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
6e72527ac0894501
SHA-256
6e72527ac0894501b601af250146f054916074647018a78504aa75cd65a37264
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.114519

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.890477onnx/unsafe0.114519onnx/nsfw0.064062onnx/nsfl0.050457
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with repeated text and star patterns on a light blue background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,449 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 694

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • repeated text
  • star pattern background
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with repeated text 'da bisteC way Z fall is... in luv with ME' in dark blue pixelated font across three columns. The background features a pattern of light blue stars on white. The rightmost column has a solid gray rectangular area replacing the text pattern. The text uses lowercase 'l' and 'u' in 'luv', and 'ME' is uppercase. The font is blocky and pixelated, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image with repeated text and star patterns on a light blue background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • repeated text 'da bisteC way Z fall is... in luv with ME'
  • light blue stars background
  • gray rectangle replacement
  • pixelated dark blue font
  • three layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three column layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • da bisteC
  • way Z
  • fall is...
  • in luv
  • with ME

Wordwall

  • repeated text
  • light blue stars
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • three
  • lowercase 'luv'
  • uppercase 'ME'
  • blocky font
  • static image
  • white background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
200802281943531473802197
Archive entry
200802281943531473802197.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802281943531473802197.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802281943531473802197.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016