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Purple background with repeating white text "DACHSHUND" and green star-like shapes with trailing dots in motion.

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Purple background with repeating white text "DACHSHUND" and green star-like shapes with trailing dots in motion.

Purple background with repeating white text "DACHSHUND" and green star-like shapes with trailing dots in motion. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • green star shapes with trailing dots move across the background
  • some shapes are grayed out

Animation Summary

  • Green star shapes with trailing dots animate across a purple background while white "DACHSHUND" text remains static in two horizontal

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • repeating shapes

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Two horizontal rows of white pixelated text reading "DACHSHUND" (repeated across the image). Green star-like shapes with trailing green dots animate across the background; some shapes are grayed out. The shapes move in a pattern with green dots trailing behind them. The text remains static while the shapes animate.

Description

  • Purple background with repeating white text "DACHSHUND" and green star-like shapes with trailing dots in motion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background dachshund text
  • green star shapes trailing dots
  • pixelated dachshund text
  • animated star shapes purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined animationSummary: Green star shapes with trailing dots animate across a purple background while white "DACHSHUND" text remains static in two horizontal rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • DACHSHUND

Visually Supported Entities

  • DACHSHUND

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text
  • DACHSHUND
  • green star shapes
  • trailing green dots
  • grayed-out shapes
  • pixelated text
  • horizontal text
  • animated shapes
  • static text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910111845311954350637
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
600 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7e58befaead6a699b32c44c9f5985365023a97390a3cc861a45374e9d5136440.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
7e58befaead6a699
SHA-256
7e58befaead6a699b32c44c9f5985365023a97390a3cc861a45374e9d5136440
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 13:47 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000617

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 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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OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with repeating white text "DACHSHUND" and green star-like shapes with trailing dots in motion.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,430 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 804

Review tags

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  • trailing (action, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • dachshund (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • animating
  • trailing

Animation

  • green star shapes with trailing dots move across the background
  • some shapes are grayed out

Animation Summary

  • Green star shapes with trailing dots animate across a purple background while white "DACHSHUND" text remains static in two horizontal

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • repeating shapes

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Two horizontal rows of white pixelated text reading "DACHSHUND" (repeated across the image). Green star-like shapes with trailing green dots animate across the background; some shapes are grayed out. The shapes move in a pattern with green dots trailing behind them. The text remains static while the shapes animate.

Description

  • Purple background with repeating white text "DACHSHUND" and green star-like shapes with trailing dots in motion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background dachshund text
  • green star shapes trailing dots
  • pixelated dachshund text
  • animated star shapes purple background

Objects

  • star shapes
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined animationSummary: Green star shapes with trailing dots animate across a purple background while white "DACHSHUND" text remains static in two horizontal rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • animated

Subjects

  • DACHSHUND

Visible Text

  • DACHSHUND

Visually Supported Entities

  • DACHSHUND

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text
  • DACHSHUND
  • green star shapes
  • trailing green dots
  • grayed-out shapes
  • pixelated text
  • horizontal text
  • animated shapes
  • static text
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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
200910111845311954350637
Archive entry
200910111845311954350637.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910111845311954350637.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910111845311954350637.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016