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Purple background with red starbursts and four cyan 'LEXI' text elements in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets.

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Purple background with red starbursts and four cyan 'LEXI' text elements in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets.

Purple background with red starbursts and four cyan 'LEXI' text elements in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Animation Summary

No animation observed; static image with four identical cyan 'LEXI' text elements enclosed by circular brackets on a purple background with red starbursts.

Composition

  • four text elements
  • two
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Purple background contains scattered red starbursts of varying sizes. Four cyan 'LEXI' text elements appear in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets. The text elements are arranged in two rows: top row has two elements, bottom row has two elements. All text elements are identical in style and color. Red starbursts are distributed across the background without overlapping text. No visible motion or animation changes are present in the static image.

Description

  • Purple background with red starbursts and four cyan 'LEXI' text elements in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090330141828456787070

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background red starbursts cyan text LEXI
  • four LEXI text elements purple starbursts
  • cyan pixelated LEXI text circular brackets
  • red starbursts purple background LEXI text

Preprocessing Notes

  • static image; no animation observed
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: two rows

Visible Text

  • LEXI

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • red starbursts
  • cyan text
  • 'LEXI'
  • pixelated font
  • circular brackets
  • four text elements
  • two
  • scattered starbursts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090330141828456787070
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/70/7064bc171fd694dd7bbc74e35e6df4dc9a9ee1a01c7724870a8ac899cad42dca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
7064bc171fd694dd
SHA-256
7064bc171fd694dd7bbc74e35e6df4dc9a9ee1a01c7724870a8ac899cad42dca
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103322

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with red starbursts and four cyan 'LEXI' text elements in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,937 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 642

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No animation observed; static image with four identical cyan 'LEXI' text elements enclosed by circular brackets on a purple background with red starbursts.

Colors

  • purple
  • red
  • cyan

Composition

  • four text elements
  • two
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Purple background contains scattered red starbursts of varying sizes. Four cyan 'LEXI' text elements appear in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets. The text elements are arranged in two rows: top row has two elements, bottom row has two elements. All text elements are identical in style and color. Red starbursts are distributed across the background without overlapping text. No visible motion or animation changes are present in the static image.

Description

  • Purple background with red starbursts and four cyan 'LEXI' text elements in pixelated font, each enclosed by circular brackets.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090330141828456787070

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background red starbursts cyan text LEXI
  • four LEXI text elements purple starbursts
  • cyan pixelated LEXI text circular brackets
  • red starbursts purple background LEXI text

Preprocessing Notes

  • static image; no animation observed
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: two rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • LEXI

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • red starbursts
  • cyan text
  • 'LEXI'
  • pixelated font
  • circular brackets
  • four text elements
  • two
  • scattered starbursts
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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
20090330141828456787070
Archive entry
20090330141828456787070.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090330141828456787070.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090330141828456787070.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016