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Purple background with white text 'tess (:', scattered stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Purple background with white text 'tess (:', scattered stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Purple background with white text 'tess (:', scattered stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • multiple 'tess (:' text instances
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background. White pixelated text reading 'tess (:' appears multiple times across the frame. Small white star shapes are scattered throughout the scene; some stars appear larger or more prominent than others. A solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right portion of the frame, partially obscuring the lower-right area. The visual elements remain consistent across all observed frames.

Description

  • Purple background with white text 'tess (:', scattered stars, and a gray rectangle 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 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
  • 200910201753182036656237

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tess (: purple background
  • white stars gray rectangle
  • tess text multiple instances
  • purple white gray color scheme

Objects

  • star
  • rectangle

Subjects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • tess (:

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text 'tess (:'
  • scattered white stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910201753182036656237
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bd5c705e17001aca200ad4aeca385971ae08dd091bcb1ed448ae617c8586744.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
8bd5c705e17001ac
SHA-256
8bd5c705e17001aca200ad4aeca385971ae08dd091bcb1ed448ae617c8586744
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076300

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with white text 'tess (:', scattered stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,897 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 609

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • multiple 'tess (:' text instances
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background. White pixelated text reading 'tess (:' appears multiple times across the frame. Small white star shapes are scattered throughout the scene; some stars appear larger or more prominent than others. A solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right portion of the frame, partially obscuring the lower-right area. The visual elements remain consistent across all observed frames.

Description

  • Purple background with white text 'tess (:', scattered stars, and a gray rectangle 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 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
  • 200910201753182036656237

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tess (: purple background
  • white stars gray rectangle
  • tess text multiple instances
  • purple white gray color scheme

Objects

  • star
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • stars
  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • tess (:

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text 'tess (:'
  • scattered white stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right
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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
200910201753182036656237
Archive entry
200910201753182036656237.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910201753182036656237.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910201753182036656237.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016