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A static image with a bright pink background covered in white stars, displaying repeated text in cyan pixelated font.

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A static image with a bright pink background covered in white stars, displaying repeated text in cyan pixelated font.

A static image with a bright pink background covered in white stars, displaying repeated text in cyan pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered white five-pointed stars. Repeated cyan pixelated text 'Macy Ellen' appears in multiple positions, each followed by the cyan pixelated text '(333)'. The text and stars are static with no visible animation changes. The image uses a retro digital style with blocky pixels and limited color palette. The stars are uniformly white with soft edges, scattered across the pink background. The text is consistently rendered in the same cyan color and pixelated font style. No additional objects, actions, or subjects are visible beyond the stars and text.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background covered in white stars, displaying repeated text in cyan 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • macy ellen 333 pink stars
  • cyan text pink background
  • pixelated macy ellen stars
  • macy ellen 333 white stars

Visible Text

  • Macy Ellen
  • (333)

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • Macy Ellen
  • (333)
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • static image
  • retro digital style
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081128082049226803108
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77cd4d3ab967043886d00f55b327aa54237db059a7811ea50052428d23a9e887.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
77cd4d3ab9670438
SHA-256
77cd4d3ab967043886d00f55b327aa54237db059a7811ea50052428d23a9e887
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1051
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129861

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a bright pink background covered in white stars, displaying repeated text in cyan pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,030 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 680

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered white five-pointed stars. Repeated cyan pixelated text 'Macy Ellen' appears in multiple positions, each followed by the cyan pixelated text '(333)'. The text and stars are static with no visible animation changes. The image uses a retro digital style with blocky pixels and limited color palette. The stars are uniformly white with soft edges, scattered across the pink background. The text is consistently rendered in the same cyan color and pixelated font style. No additional objects, actions, or subjects are visible beyond the stars and text.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background covered in white stars, displaying repeated text in cyan 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • macy ellen 333 pink stars
  • cyan text pink background
  • pixelated macy ellen stars
  • macy ellen 333 white stars

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Macy Ellen
  • (333)

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • Macy Ellen
  • (333)
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • static image
  • retro digital style
  • blocky pixels
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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
20081128082049226803108
Archive entry
20081128082049226803108.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081128082049226803108.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081128082049226803108.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016