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A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated text and purple star shapes.

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

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image shows a static repeating pattern of text and stars.

Composition

  • vertical of text with stars behind

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of black pixelated text 'Secret Star XOXO' arranged in vertical columns on a solid bright pink background. Purple five-pointed stars are positioned behind the text, partially visible through the letters. The text appears identical across all repetitions with no discernible animation or variation between instances. Each column contains four full cycles of the phrase 'Secret Star XOXO'.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated text and purple star shapes.

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
  • 2008020412503568298350

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Secret Star XOXO pink background purple stars
  • pink background Secret Star XOXO repeating text
  • purple star shapes black pixelated text
  • repeating vertical Secret Star XOXO

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns of text with stars behind
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating vertical columns Secret Star XOXO

Visible Text

  • Secret Star XOXO

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • purple star shapes
  • black pixelated text
  • repeating pattern
  • vertical
  • five-pointed stars
  • text: Secret Star XOXO

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008020412503568298350
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82a27ca063686bf8cea3ead182d5a6ec6e2c1d35cae7671d6fe8608b6d9ffbfc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
82a27ca063686bf8
SHA-256
82a27ca063686bf8cea3ead182d5a6ec6e2c1d35cae7671d6fe8608b6d9ffbfc
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002757

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 09:44 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
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1107
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.637145

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated text and purple star shapes.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,102, response 581

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image shows a static repeating pattern of text and stars.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • vertical of text with stars behind

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of black pixelated text 'Secret Star XOXO' arranged in vertical columns on a solid bright pink background. Purple five-pointed stars are positioned behind the text, partially visible through the letters. The text appears identical across all repetitions with no discernible animation or variation between instances. Each column contains four full cycles of the phrase 'Secret Star XOXO'.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated text and purple star shapes.

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
  • 2008020412503568298350

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Secret Star XOXO pink background purple stars
  • pink background Secret Star XOXO repeating text
  • purple star shapes black pixelated text
  • repeating vertical Secret Star XOXO

Objects

  • purple star shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns of text with stars behind
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating vertical columns Secret Star XOXO

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • Secret Star XOXO

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • purple star shapes
  • black pixelated text
  • repeating pattern
  • vertical
  • five-pointed stars
  • text: Secret Star XOXO
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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
2008020412503568298350
Archive entry
2008020412503568298350.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#2008020412503568298350.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008020412503568298350.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016