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Pink background with white star shapes and black text reading "SAM" in four positions.

Pink background with white star shapes and black text reading "SAM" in four positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four "SAM" texts at corners
  • star shapes scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid pink background. White, pixelated stars of varying sizes are scattered across the background; some stars appear larger than others. Four instances of the text "SAM" in bold, blocky, black font are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas of the frame. The stars have a soft glow effect with blurred edges.

Description

  • Pink background with white star shapes and black text reading "SAM" in four positions.

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 background white stars SAM text
  • pixelated star glow effect
  • four SAM texts corners

Visible Text

  • SAM

Visually Supported Entities

  • SAM

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white star shapes
  • black text
  • "SAM" text
  • pixelated stars
  • glow effect

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070922134214400667913
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7b583f33902069ca2e23b79bb8a0fc32dca3075cd1d03645e3ee45a4f5ddfa66.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
7b583f33902069ca
SHA-256
7b583f33902069ca2e23b79bb8a0fc32dca3075cd1d03645e3ee45a4f5ddfa66
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1069
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092849

OpenAI category scores

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Pink background with white star shapes and black text reading "SAM" in four positions.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,204 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 549

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • glow effect (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four "SAM" texts at corners
  • star shapes scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid pink background. White, pixelated stars of varying sizes are scattered across the background; some stars appear larger than others. Four instances of the text "SAM" in bold, blocky, black font are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas of the frame. The stars have a soft glow effect with blurred edges.

Description

  • Pink background with white star shapes and black text reading "SAM" in four positions.

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 background white stars SAM text
  • pixelated star glow effect
  • four SAM texts corners

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • glow effect

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • SAM

Visually Supported Entities

  • SAM

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white star shapes
  • black text
  • "SAM" text
  • pixelated stars
  • glow effect
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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
20070922134214400667913
Archive entry
20070922134214400667913.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070922134214400667913.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070922134214400667913.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016