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Blue background with repeated white text "Mid Island<3" and scattered green stars, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Blue background with repeated white text "Mid Island<3" and scattered green stars, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Blue background with repeated white text "Mid Island<3" and scattered green stars, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • scattered stars
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Repeated white pixelated text "Mid Island<3" appears in three rows of four instances each (12 total). Green star shapes are scattered across the image: some solid green, others faint or partially visible. A single solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "Mid Island<3" and scattered green stars, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 200909131156531168977548

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mid island 3 blue background
  • blue text green stars gray rectangle
  • pixel art mid island 3
  • repeated mid island 3 text

Objects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • Mid Island<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text "Mid Island<3"
  • green stars
  • gray rectangle
  • 12 instances of text
  • blocky pixelated font
  • scattered star shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909131156531168977548
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7fa082b79f068271e4423ee68b2c0cd7e85ca4b60757413dcdfd0d02460b2d43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
7fa082b79f068271
SHA-256
7fa082b79f068271e4423ee68b2c0cd7e85ca4b60757413dcdfd0d02460b2d43
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
Run
1091
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080028

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated white text "Mid Island<3" and scattered green stars, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,861 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 611

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • scattered stars
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Repeated white pixelated text "Mid Island<3" appears in three rows of four instances each (12 total). Green star shapes are scattered across the image: some solid green, others faint or partially visible. A single solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "Mid Island<3" and scattered green stars, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 200909131156531168977548

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mid island 3 blue background
  • blue text green stars gray rectangle
  • pixel art mid island 3
  • repeated mid island 3 text

Objects

  • stars
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • Mid Island<3

Wordwall

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  • white text "Mid Island<3"
  • green stars
  • gray rectangle
  • 12 instances of text
  • blocky pixelated font
  • scattered star shapes
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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
200909131156531168977548
Archive entry
200909131156531168977548.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909131156531168977548.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909131156531168977548.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016