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Purple background with multiple pink stars and repeated white text 'steph' in pixelated font.

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Purple background with multiple pink stars and repeated white text 'steph' in pixelated font.

Purple background with multiple pink stars and repeated white text 'steph' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text positioned near star clusters
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

Solid purple background contains 15 distinct pink star shapes of varying sizes; four instances of the word 'steph' appear in a light gray, blocky, pixelated typeface. Stars are scattered across the frame with no apparent pattern: some larger stars occupy central positions while smaller ones fill corners and edges. The text 'steph' appears twice on the top row, twice on the bottom row, each instance positioned near star clusters. All elements maintain consistent coloration and positioning; no visible animation changes occur between observations.

Description

  • Purple background with multiple pink stars and repeated white text 'steph' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple star steph
  • pink stars purple background
  • pixelated steph text
  • repeated steph stars

Visible Text

  • steph

Visually Supported Entities

  • steph

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink stars
  • 'steph' text
  • pixelated font
  • 15 star shapes
  • four 'steph' instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801021441122009250087
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f3bdf8e5f958ccfb09c66a9a3b3e40c98943dca447d643c044ad4adee6c1720.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
6f3bdf8e5f958ccf
SHA-256
6f3bdf8e5f958ccfb09c66a9a3b3e40c98943dca447d643c044ad4adee6c1720
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.173676

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with multiple pink stars and repeated white text 'steph' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,718 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 591

Review tags

  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • light gray

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text positioned near star clusters
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

Solid purple background contains 15 distinct pink star shapes of varying sizes; four instances of the word 'steph' appear in a light gray, blocky, pixelated typeface. Stars are scattered across the frame with no apparent pattern: some larger stars occupy central positions while smaller ones fill corners and edges. The text 'steph' appears twice on the top row, twice on the bottom row, each instance positioned near star clusters. All elements maintain consistent coloration and positioning; no visible animation changes occur between observations.

Description

  • Purple background with multiple pink stars and repeated white text 'steph' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple star steph
  • pink stars purple background
  • pixelated steph text
  • repeated steph stars

Objects

  • star shapes
  • text characters

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • steph

Visually Supported Entities

  • steph

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink stars
  • 'steph' text
  • pixelated font
  • 15 star shapes
  • four 'steph' instances
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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
200801021441122009250087
Archive entry
200801021441122009250087.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801021441122009250087.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801021441122009250087.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016