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Pink background with scattered pink stars and green text repeating "mergand" in a pixelated style.

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Pink background with scattered pink stars and green text repeating "mergand" in a pixelated style.

Pink background with scattered pink stars and green text repeating "mergand" in a pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeating text and stars.

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • two of text

Dense Caption

Pink background with scattered pink stars of varying sizes. Green pixelated text repeating "mergand" appears horizontally across the image in two rows. The text and stars are static with no visible animation changes. The image uses a limited color palette of pink and green. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pink background with scattered pink stars and green text repeating "mergand" in a pixelated style.

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

  • pink stars green text
  • mergand pixelated
  • repeating text stars
  • static pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Visible Text

  • mergand

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • pink stars
  • green text
  • mergand
  • pixelated
  • two
  • scattered stars
  • static
  • low-resolution
  • repeating text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090906072728197450590
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/7593e46c40aa13d7f9579526af7b58be00c2a271088eebe00e49eb4f97808eee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
7593e46c40aa13d7
SHA-256
7593e46c40aa13d7f9579526af7b58be00c2a271088eebe00e49eb4f97808eee
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 20:54 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010101

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1041
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.196558

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pink background with scattered pink stars and green text repeating "mergand" in a pixelated style.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,839 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 577

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeating text and stars.

Colors

  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • two of text

Dense Caption

Pink background with scattered pink stars of varying sizes. Green pixelated text repeating "mergand" appears horizontally across the image in two rows. The text and stars are static with no visible animation changes. The image uses a limited color palette of pink and green. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pink background with scattered pink stars and green text repeating "mergand" in a pixelated style.

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink stars green text
  • mergand pixelated
  • repeating text stars
  • static pink background

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • mergand

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • pink stars
  • green text
  • mergand
  • pixelated
  • two
  • scattered stars
  • static
  • low-resolution
  • repeating text
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20090906072728197450590
Archive entry
20090906072728197450590.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090906072728197450590.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090906072728197450590.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016