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Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three , surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right

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Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three , surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right

Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three , surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal of text
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple instances of the word 'MEL' rendered in light gray sans-serif font. The text appears in three horizontal rows: top row has four 'MEL' instances with one instance showing an asterisk replacing the final 'L', middle row has four 'MEL' instances, bottom row has three 'MEL' instances and a partial fourth instance ending with 'ME'. Small white stars are scattered across the background. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the image. The text in each row is horizontally aligned but varies slightly in spacing between letters.

Description

  • Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three , surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right

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

  • melt text stars
  • black background mels
  • gray rectangle white stars
  • three mel text

Objects

  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three rows, surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows mel text

Subjects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • MEL
  • ME

Visually Supported Entities

  • MEL text

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle
  • MEL text
  • three
  • asterisk replacement
  • light gray font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081202113815829288383
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74dfe4ff4b772524eab62b38f877e6d29ac9dedbc492be2610102e283e9d197f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
74dfe4ff4b772524
SHA-256
74dfe4ff4b772524eab62b38f877e6d29ac9dedbc492be2610102e283e9d197f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093467

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923427onnx/unsafe0.093467onnx/nsfw0.047878onnx/nsfl0.045589
Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three , surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,260 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three horizontal of text
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple instances of the word 'MEL' rendered in light gray sans-serif font. The text appears in three horizontal rows: top row has four 'MEL' instances with one instance showing an asterisk replacing the final 'L', middle row has four 'MEL' instances, bottom row has three 'MEL' instances and a partial fourth instance ending with 'ME'. Small white stars are scattered across the background. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the image. The text in each row is horizontally aligned but varies slightly in spacing between letters.

Description

  • Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three , surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • melt text stars
  • black background mels
  • gray rectangle white stars
  • three mel text

Objects

  • stars
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white text 'MEL' repeated in three rows, surrounded by small stars and a gray rectangle at bottom right.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows mel text

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text
  • stars
  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • MEL
  • ME

Visually Supported Entities

  • MEL text

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle
  • MEL text
  • three
  • asterisk replacement
  • light gray font
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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
20081202113815829288383
Archive entry
20081202113815829288383.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#20081202113815829288383.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081202113815829288383.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016