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Cyan background with pink plus signs and pixelated text reading "U've Got MEL" in four identical quadrants.

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Cyan background with pink plus signs and pixelated text reading "U've Got MEL" in four identical quadrants.

Cyan background with pink plus signs and pixelated text reading "U've Got MEL" in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • stacked text
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Cyan background with scattered pink plus signs. Four identical quadrants each contain pixelated text: "U've" in light pink, "Got" in pink, and "MEL" in bright pink. Text is vertically stacked. Plus signs are distributed across the cyan background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Cyan background with pink plus signs and pixelated text reading "U've Got MEL" in four identical quadrants.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink plus signs
  • U've Got MEL pixel art
  • four quadrants retro digital
  • stacked text cyan pink

Visible Text

  • U've
  • Got
  • MEL

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink plus signs
  • pixelated text
  • U've Got MEL
  • four quadrants
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • stacked text
  • light pink text
  • bright pink text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070828115253127277239
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72e7fba84950672699232e0cc4438769db0c3d3636902ef7d5ff9d9274692d60.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
72e7fba849506726
SHA-256
72e7fba84950672699232e0cc4438769db0c3d3636902ef7d5ff9d9274692d60
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086411

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Cyan background with pink plus signs and pixelated text reading "U've Got MEL" in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,806 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 589

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • light pink

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • stacked text
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Cyan background with scattered pink plus signs. Four identical quadrants each contain pixelated text: "U've" in light pink, "Got" in pink, and "MEL" in bright pink. Text is vertically stacked. Plus signs are distributed across the cyan background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Cyan background with pink plus signs and pixelated text reading "U've Got MEL" in four identical quadrants.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink plus signs
  • U've Got MEL pixel art
  • four quadrants retro digital
  • stacked text cyan pink

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • U've
  • Got
  • MEL

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink plus signs
  • pixelated text
  • U've Got MEL
  • four quadrants
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • stacked text
  • light pink text
  • bright pink text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070828115253127277239
Archive entry
20070828115253127277239.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070828115253127277239.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070828115253127277239.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016