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Purple background with repeated pink 'CTY' text and 'sweetness' text, alternating with cyan star and dot patterns.

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Purple background with repeated pink 'CTY' text and 'sweetness' text, alternating with cyan star and dot patterns.

Purple background with repeated pink 'CTY' text and 'sweetness' text, alternating with cyan star and dot patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background. Repeated pink text 'CTY' appears in two rows, each row containing three instances of 'CTY'. Below each 'CTY' row, there is a row of pink 'sweetness' text, also repeated three times. Cyan star and dot patterns alternate with the text rows: cyan stars with dotted lines appear above the top 'CTY' row, between the 'CTY' and 'sweetness' rows, and below the bottom 'sweetness' row. The text and patterns are arranged in a grid-like composition with consistent spacing. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with repeated pink 'CTY' text and 'sweetness' text, alternating with cyan star and dot patterns.

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

  • purple background pink text cyan stars
  • CTY sweetness composition
  • repeated text cyan star patterns
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid composition
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid text
  • quarantined retrieval: CTY sweetness grid composition

Visible Text

  • CTY
  • sweetness

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink 'CTY' text
  • pink 'sweetness' text
  • cyan star patterns
  • cyan dot patterns
  • composition
  • repeated text
  • solid color background
  • pixelated text
  • consistent spacing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708121249201607020862
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
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/857758f477819cad3a7faa06cf9fc868601cbd0a48d6644c115d754e8179a473.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
857758f477819cad
SHA-256
857758f477819cad3a7faa06cf9fc868601cbd0a48d6644c115d754e8179a473
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
1121
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085246

OpenAI category scores

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

Purple background with repeated pink 'CTY' text and 'sweetness' text, alternating with cyan star and dot patterns.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,711 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 692

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background. Repeated pink text 'CTY' appears in two rows, each row containing three instances of 'CTY'. Below each 'CTY' row, there is a row of pink 'sweetness' text, also repeated three times. Cyan star and dot patterns alternate with the text rows: cyan stars with dotted lines appear above the top 'CTY' row, between the 'CTY' and 'sweetness' rows, and below the bottom 'sweetness' row. The text and patterns are arranged in a grid-like composition with consistent spacing. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with repeated pink 'CTY' text and 'sweetness' text, alternating with cyan star and dot patterns.

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

  • purple background pink text cyan stars
  • CTY sweetness composition
  • repeated text cyan star patterns
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid composition
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid text
  • quarantined retrieval: CTY sweetness grid composition

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • CTY
  • sweetness

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink 'CTY' text
  • pink 'sweetness' text
  • cyan star patterns
  • cyan dot patterns
  • composition
  • repeated text
  • solid color background
  • pixelated text
  • consistent spacing
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:21 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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708121249201607020862
Archive entry
200708121249201607020862.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#200708121249201607020862.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708121249201607020862.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016