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Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a on a bright green background

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Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a on a bright green background

Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a on a bright green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright green background. Four identical pink stars arranged in two rows and two columns. Each star has five points; the top point is slightly elongated. Inside each star, pixelated text reads "A LEX" with partial letters visible below it. The leftmost star's bottom-left point shows a small white dot. All four stars have consistent pixelation patterns but differ in internal text clarity: top-left and bottom-right are most distinct; top-right is slightly blurred; bottom-left has the least clear text.

Description

  • Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a on a bright green background

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 star green background
  • pixelated A LEX text
  • four icons
  • green pink stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • consistent pixelation across all four icons
  • quarantined description: Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a 2x2 grid on a bright green background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four icons 2x2 grid

Uncertain Text

  • L
  • E
  • X
  • N
  • Y
  • M
  • P
  • S

Visible Text

  • A LEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • A LEX

Wordwall

  • pink stars
  • green background
  • pixelated text
  • A LEX text
  • four icons
  • top point elongated
  • white dot on left star

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712221101351259844533
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/79cb348fbcb102493ed348f1428f696c008e292ff6eb443bae31f9a7fceba5ae.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
79cb348fbcb10249
SHA-256
79cb348fbcb102493ed348f1428f696c008e292ff6eb443bae31f9a7fceba5ae
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 03:54 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000025

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
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1063
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a on a bright green background

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:46 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,450 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 614

Review tags

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

Animation

  • static

Colors

  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright green background. Four identical pink stars arranged in two rows and two columns. Each star has five points; the top point is slightly elongated. Inside each star, pixelated text reads "A LEX" with partial letters visible below it. The leftmost star's bottom-left point shows a small white dot. All four stars have consistent pixelation patterns but differ in internal text clarity: top-left and bottom-right are most distinct; top-right is slightly blurred; bottom-left has the least clear text.

Description

  • Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a on a bright green background

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 star green background
  • pixelated A LEX text
  • four icons
  • green pink stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • consistent pixelation across all four icons
  • quarantined description: Four pink star-shaped icons with pixelated text inside, arranged in a 2x2 grid on a bright green background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four icons 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • graphic

Subjects

  • stars

Uncertain Text

  • L
  • E
  • X
  • N
  • Y
  • M
  • P
  • S

Visible Text

  • A LEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • A LEX

Wordwall

  • pink stars
  • green background
  • pixelated text
  • A LEX text
  • four icons
  • top point elongated
  • white dot on left star
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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
200712221101351259844533
Archive entry
200712221101351259844533.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712221101351259844533.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712221101351259844533.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016