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Four distinct stylized letters and a yellow star with two black oval eyes on a white background.

Four distinct stylized letters and a yellow star with two black oval eyes on a white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • white background

Dense Caption

Top-left: pink stylized letter L with black outline and decorative swirl at bottom-right. Top-right: red stylized letter I with black outline. Bottom-left: green stylized letter A with black outline and decorative swirls. Bottom-right: yellow five-pointed star with two black oval eyes, pixelated edges, and partial background showing light purple and white. All elements are arranged in a 2x2 grid on white background.

Description

  • Four distinct stylized letters and a yellow star with two black oval eyes on a white background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811291055021756381421
  • 20081129105504466895956
  • 20081129105517526969108

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink L red I green A yellow star
  • stylized letters star
  • pink red green yellow
  • black outline decorative swirl star eyes

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pink red green yellow

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • L
  • I
  • A

Wordwall

  • pink L
  • red I
  • green A
  • yellow star
  • black outline
  • decorative swirl
  • two black oval eyes
  • white background

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811291055021756381421
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081129105504466895956
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081129105517526969108
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82cba2be98d0d02eac18687d7d9cbaaa4b2128469646ea191c5a298803160339.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
82cba2be98d0d02e
SHA-256
82cba2be98d0d02eac18687d7d9cbaaa4b2128469646ea191c5a298803160339
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 03:53 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000535

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1107
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (1)
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Four distinct stylized letters and a yellow star with two black oval eyes on a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,696 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,196, response 667

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • letter a (subject, 0.80)
  • letter i (subject, 0.80)
  • letter l (subject, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • light purple

Composition

  • white background

Dense Caption

Top-left: pink stylized letter L with black outline and decorative swirl at bottom-right. Top-right: red stylized letter I with black outline. Bottom-left: green stylized letter A with black outline and decorative swirls. Bottom-right: yellow five-pointed star with two black oval eyes, pixelated edges, and partial background showing light purple and white. All elements are arranged in a 2x2 grid on white background.

Description

  • Four distinct stylized letters and a yellow star with two black oval eyes on a white background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811291055021756381421
  • 20081129105504466895956
  • 20081129105517526969108

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink L red I green A yellow star
  • stylized letters star
  • pink red green yellow
  • black outline decorative swirl star eyes

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pink red green yellow

Style

  • stylized
  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • letter L
  • letter I
  • letter A
  • star

Visible Text

  • L
  • I
  • A

Wordwall

  • pink L
  • red I
  • green A
  • yellow star
  • black outline
  • decorative swirl
  • two black oval eyes
  • white background
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Full source records (3)

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
200811291055021756381421
Archive entry
200811291055021756381421.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811291055021756381421.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811291055021756381421.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081129105504466895956
Archive entry
20081129105504466895956.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081129105504466895956.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081129105504466895956.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081129105517526969108
Archive entry
20081129105517526969108.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081129105517526969108.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081129105517526969108.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016