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A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated white text and symbols.

A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated white text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with repeated white text 'bre' and '=]' symbols. White star-shaped icons with trailing dots appear in four corners and below each '=]' symbol. The stars alternate between solid white and pink colors. The text 'bre' is positioned above each '=]' symbol. The stars in the corners and below the symbols are arranged in a grid-like pattern. The overall composition is symmetrical with consistent spacing between elements.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated white text and symbols.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text bre
  • bre =] star icons
  • repeated star symbols
  • symmetrical pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid pattern

Visible Text

  • bre
  • =]

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • white text 'bre'
  • =] symbols
  • white star icons
  • trailing dots
  • symmetrical
  • alternating star colors
  • repeated elements
  • solid white stars
  • pink stars
  • text above symbols
  • pattern
  • consistent spacing
  • corner stars
  • below symbols stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708111959191861291033
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
806 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/81d44bddfa68cc2eeda21ba2d72534c370d97be4e80f780eaec755ce15396759.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
81d44bddfa68cc2e
SHA-256
81d44bddfa68cc2eeda21ba2d72534c370d97be4e80f780eaec755ce15396759
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:26 UTC
Run
1103
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122671

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated white text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:22 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,835 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 669

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with repeated white text 'bre' and '=]' symbols. White star-shaped icons with trailing dots appear in four corners and below each '=]' symbol. The stars alternate between solid white and pink colors. The text 'bre' is positioned above each '=]' symbol. The stars in the corners and below the symbols are arranged in a grid-like pattern. The overall composition is symmetrical with consistent spacing between elements.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated white text and symbols.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text bre
  • bre =] star icons
  • repeated star symbols
  • symmetrical pattern

Objects

  • stars
  • dots
  • text
  • symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • symmetrical

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols
  • stars

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  • bre
  • =]

Wordwall

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  • white text 'bre'
  • =] symbols
  • white star icons
  • trailing dots
  • symmetrical
  • alternating star colors
  • repeated elements
  • solid white stars
  • pink stars
  • text above symbols
  • pattern
  • consistent spacing
  • corner stars
  • below symbols stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708111959191861291033
Archive entry
200708111959191861291033.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708111959191861291033.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708111959191861291033.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016