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A static image with a bright cyan background filled with white stars and repeated pink text "Cai Cai" in a pixelated font.

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A static image with a bright cyan background filled with white stars and repeated pink text "Cai Cai" in a pixelated font.

A static image with a bright cyan background filled with white stars and repeated pink text "Cai Cai" in a pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text in four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background with scattered white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text "Cai Cai" appear in a bold, pixelated pink font, positioned in the top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right areas of the image. The stars are distributed across the cyan background without overlapping the text. The overall style is simple and retro, with a limited color palette of cyan, white, and pink.

Description

  • A static image with a bright cyan background filled with white stars and repeated pink text "Cai Cai" in a pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200709010537271344035234

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan star background cai cai text
  • pink cai cai pixelated stars
  • four cai cai text instances cyan background
  • white stars cyan background cai cai

Visible Text

  • Cai Cai

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white stars
  • pink text
  • Cai Cai
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • scattered stars
  • bright color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709010537271344035234
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77014d9c0d877a78f7ea02cabb822dda372cadd12cd8a9417d0af4844c9be9e8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
77014d9c0d877a78
SHA-256
77014d9c0d877a78f7ea02cabb822dda372cadd12cd8a9417d0af4844c9be9e8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1047
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088645

OpenAI category scores

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

A static image with a bright cyan background filled with white stars and repeated pink text "Cai Cai" in a pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,076 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 655

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • simple (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text in four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background with scattered white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text "Cai Cai" appear in a bold, pixelated pink font, positioned in the top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right areas of the image. The stars are distributed across the cyan background without overlapping the text. The overall style is simple and retro, with a limited color palette of cyan, white, and pink.

Description

  • A static image with a bright cyan background filled with white stars and repeated pink text "Cai Cai" in a pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200709010537271344035234

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan star background cai cai text
  • pink cai cai pixelated stars
  • four cai cai text instances cyan background
  • white stars cyan background cai cai

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • simple

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Cai Cai

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white stars
  • pink text
  • Cai Cai
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • scattered stars
  • bright color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
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
200709010537271344035234
Archive entry
200709010537271344035234.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200709010537271344035234.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709010537271344035234.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016