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Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal with identical layout

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Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal with identical layout

Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal with identical layout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • centered text
  • scattered star elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital graphic featuring a solid purple background. Two identical horizontal rows of pixelated pink text reading "Carto <3 Carto <3" are centered vertically. The text uses a rounded sans-serif font with visible pixelation. Scattered across the background are cyan plus-shaped stars in varying sizes, including small dots and larger four-pointed crosses. All elements remain fixed without animation or movement.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal with identical layout

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090228125120851953584

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background cyan stars pixel art
  • carto <3 text pink purple
  • two of carto <3 text
  • cyan plus-shaped stars scattered

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal rows with identical layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: centered text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows of carto <3 text

Visible Text

  • Carto <3 Carto <3

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan plus-shaped stars
  • small dots
  • larger four-pointed crosses
  • pixelated pink text
  • "Carto <3 Carto <3"
  • two identical horizontal
  • rounded sans-serif font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090228125120851953584
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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/7e/7e2df70ec18db26e61430b395c22c980b92ddb3197dd7bf39a19e68293ab5f4d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
7e2df70ec18db26e
SHA-256
7e2df70ec18db26e61430b395c22c980b92ddb3197dd7bf39a19e68293ab5f4d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 01:01 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000110

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:17 UTC
Run
1085
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal with identical layout

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,525 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 581

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • centered text
  • scattered star elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital graphic featuring a solid purple background. Two identical horizontal rows of pixelated pink text reading "Carto <3 Carto <3" are centered vertically. The text uses a rounded sans-serif font with visible pixelation. Scattered across the background are cyan plus-shaped stars in varying sizes, including small dots and larger four-pointed crosses. All elements remain fixed without animation or movement.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal with identical layout

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090228125120851953584

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background cyan stars pixel art
  • carto <3 text pink purple
  • two of carto <3 text
  • cyan plus-shaped stars scattered

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated pink text and cyan stars on a purple background, repeated in two horizontal rows with identical layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: centered text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows of carto <3 text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Carto <3 Carto <3

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan plus-shaped stars
  • small dots
  • larger four-pointed crosses
  • pixelated pink text
  • "Carto <3 Carto <3"
  • two identical horizontal
  • rounded sans-serif font
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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
20090228125120851953584
Archive entry
20090228125120851953584.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090228125120851953584.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090228125120851953584.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016