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Static pixel art displays three identical of text on black background with pink star accents, each containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters

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Static pixel art displays three identical of text on black background with pink star accents, each containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters

Static pixel art displays three identical of text on black background with pink star accents, each containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters. Animated 48×48 G…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three vertical
  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical star placement

Dense Caption

Black background features three vertical columns of white pixelated text. Each column contains six lines: 'lee_lex', 'sam_mel', 'tyler', 'austin', 'bffl<333', and a trailing pink star. Columns are separated by small gaps with additional pink stars at top-left, bottom-right, and center positions. Text uses lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols '<' and '>' in fixed-width font style.

Description

Static pixel art displays three identical of text on black background with pink star accents, each containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071224130221871137288

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lee_lex sam_mel tyler austin bffl<333
  • three white text black background pink stars
  • pixel art text icon
  • bffl<333 star accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static pixel art displays three identical columns of text on black background with pink star accents, each column containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters.
  • quarantined wordwall: six lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns white text black background pink stars

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • lee_lex
  • sam_mel
  • tyler
  • austin
  • bffl<333

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • three vertical
  • six lines per
  • lee_lex
  • sam_mel
  • tyler
  • austin
  • bffl<333
  • pink star accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071224130221871137288
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
677 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71232cf3450939d680b8d3275dbcaa2e6db59af8f8e3cf5908ea7c7b742da414.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
71232cf3450939d6
SHA-256
71232cf3450939d680b8d3275dbcaa2e6db59af8f8e3cf5908ea7c7b742da414
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080280

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays three identical of text on black background with pink star accents, each containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:32 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,241 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 680

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • text based icon (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • three vertical
  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical star placement

Dense Caption

Black background features three vertical columns of white pixelated text. Each column contains six lines: 'lee_lex', 'sam_mel', 'tyler', 'austin', 'bffl<333', and a trailing pink star. Columns are separated by small gaps with additional pink stars at top-left, bottom-right, and center positions. Text uses lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols '<' and '>' in fixed-width font style.

Description

Static pixel art displays three identical of text on black background with pink star accents, each containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071224130221871137288

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lee_lex sam_mel tyler austin bffl<333
  • three white text black background pink stars
  • pixel art text icon
  • bffl<333 star accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static pixel art displays three identical columns of text on black background with pink star accents, each column containing six lines of white lowercase and numeric characters.
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  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
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  • text-based icon

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  • sam_mel
  • tyler
  • austin
  • bffl<333

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • three vertical
  • six lines per
  • lee_lex
  • sam_mel
  • tyler
  • austin
  • bffl<333
  • pink star accents
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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
20071224130221871137288
Archive entry
20071224130221871137288.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#20071224130221871137288.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071224130221871137288.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016