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A static image with a bright pink background displays partial text fragments in bold black letters with white outlines.

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Source terms

Composition

  • top left text
  • bottom left text
  • right side solid gray area

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a solid bright pink background. Visible text fragments include "GIRLS" in large bold black letters with white outlines at the top left, "ne of m" in smaller black letters with white outlines to the right of "GIRLS", and "my hob" in black letters with white outlines at the bottom left. The right side of the image features a solid gray rectangular area. All text uses a pixelated font style.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displays partial text fragments in bold black letters with white outlines.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200903070848121705523371
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200903070848121705523371

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background text fragments
  • gray area text
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • partial text bright pink
  • black white text gray area

Visible Text

  • GIRLS
  • ne of m
  • my hob

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • gray rectangular area
  • text fragments
  • bold black letters
  • white outlines
  • pixelated font
  • partial text
  • top left text
  • bottom left text
  • right side gray area

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903070848121705523371
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/874186133072543ef2c96adb962326068a65235fe52f7ca448fc35a0f8c43798.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
874186133072543e
SHA-256
874186133072543ef2c96adb962326068a65235fe52f7ca448fc35a0f8c43798
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110782

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a bright pink background displays partial text fragments in bold black letters with white outlines.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,260 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 728

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top left text
  • bottom left text
  • right side solid gray area

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a solid bright pink background. Visible text fragments include "GIRLS" in large bold black letters with white outlines at the top left, "ne of m" in smaller black letters with white outlines to the right of "GIRLS", and "my hob" in black letters with white outlines at the bottom left. The right side of the image features a solid gray rectangular area. All text uses a pixelated font style.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displays partial text fragments in bold black letters with white outlines.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200903070848121705523371
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200903070848121705523371

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background text fragments
  • gray area text
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • partial text bright pink
  • black white text gray area

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • GIRLS
  • ne of m
  • my hob

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • gray rectangular area
  • text fragments
  • bold black letters
  • white outlines
  • pixelated font
  • partial text
  • top left text
  • bottom left text
  • right side gray area
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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
200903070848121705523371
Archive entry
200903070848121705523371.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903070848121705523371.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903070848121705523371.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016