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A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three , and a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner

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A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three , and a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner

A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three , and a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner. Animated 48×…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three
  • four
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Dense Caption

Bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars. Three rows of black text 'laur' (four per row) arranged in a grid. White stars vary in size and position across rows. Light purple stars are smaller and less frequent than white stars. Gray rectangular shape occupies bottom right corner. Text 'laur' is rendered in a pixelated font. Stars appear to be static. No visible motion or animation changes. All elements are contained within a square frame.

Description

A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three , and a gray rectangular shape in the 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901171729271711145580

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background stars laur text
  • laur text stars
  • gray rectangle purple stars
  • pixelated laur stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three rows, and a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner.
  • quarantined wordwall: four per row
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: laur text grid stars

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

  • laur

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white stars
  • light purple stars
  • text 'laur'
  • three
  • four per
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • static stars
  • square frame

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901171729271711145580
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
801 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/839112da6a2cd077a15b41968d5ff5d5d3efc5cecbe5fef009ea9fec6ccb74de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
839112da6a2cd077
SHA-256
839112da6a2cd077a15b41968d5ff5d5d3efc5cecbe5fef009ea9fec6ccb74de
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
1111
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098963

OpenAI category scores

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A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three , and a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,206 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 888

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • light purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • four
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Dense Caption

Bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars. Three rows of black text 'laur' (four per row) arranged in a grid. White stars vary in size and position across rows. Light purple stars are smaller and less frequent than white stars. Gray rectangular shape occupies bottom right corner. Text 'laur' is rendered in a pixelated font. Stars appear to be static. No visible motion or animation changes. All elements are contained within a square frame.

Description

A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three , and a gray rectangular shape in the 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901171729271711145580

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background stars laur text
  • laur text stars
  • gray rectangle purple stars
  • pixelated laur stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: A bright purple background with scattered white and light purple stars, repeated black text 'laur' in three rows, and a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner.
  • quarantined wordwall: four per row
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: laur text grid stars

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

  • pixelated
  • retro

Visible Text

  • laur

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white stars
  • light purple stars
  • text 'laur'
  • three
  • four per
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • static stars
  • square frame
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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
200901171729271711145580
Archive entry
200901171729271711145580.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901171729271711145580.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901171729271711145580.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016