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Pink background with repeating small pink stars, multiple instances of 'eRiCa' text in black, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Pink background with repeating small pink stars, multiple instances of 'eRiCa' text in black, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Pink background with repeating small pink stars, multiple instances of 'eRiCa' text in black, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Source terms

Composition

  • arrangement
  • bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image features a light pink background covered with a repeating pattern of small, solid pink stars. Overlaid on the background are multiple instances of the text 'eRiCa' rendered in black, with mixed case (lowercase 'e', uppercase 'RiCa'). The text appears in a grid-like arrangement across the visible area. In the bottom-right corner, there is a solid gray rectangle that partially obscures the star pattern and text. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

Pink background with repeating small pink stars, multiple instances of 'eRiCa' text in black, and a solid 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 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

  • pink star background eRiCa text
  • eRiCa text pink stars
  • gray rectangle pink background
  • eRiCa pink stars gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: eRiCa text grid pink stars

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • eRiCa

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • repeating pink stars
  • eRiCa text
  • black text
  • mixed case
  • arrangement
  • gray rectangle
  • bottom-right corner
  • solid rectangle
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080905095519880341874
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bf58706e4eeed7a99641f0cfd3fd3cb7e18040e2f86ef73c33f93c9c5831241.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
8bf58706e4eeed7a
SHA-256
8bf58706e4eeed7a99641f0cfd3fd3cb7e18040e2f86ef73c33f93c9c5831241
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
0.108663

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Pink background with repeating small pink stars, multiple instances of 'eRiCa' text in black, and a solid gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,013 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 696

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • arrangement
  • bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image features a light pink background covered with a repeating pattern of small, solid pink stars. Overlaid on the background are multiple instances of the text 'eRiCa' rendered in black, with mixed case (lowercase 'e', uppercase 'RiCa'). The text appears in a grid-like arrangement across the visible area. In the bottom-right corner, there is a solid gray rectangle that partially obscures the star pattern and text. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

Pink background with repeating small pink stars, multiple instances of 'eRiCa' text in black, and a solid 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 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

  • pink star background eRiCa text
  • eRiCa text pink stars
  • gray rectangle pink background
  • eRiCa pink stars gray rectangle

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: eRiCa text grid pink stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • eRiCa

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • repeating pink stars
  • eRiCa text
  • black text
  • mixed case
  • arrangement
  • gray rectangle
  • bottom-right corner
  • solid rectangle
  • no animation
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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
20080905095519880341874
Archive entry
20080905095519880341874.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080905095519880341874.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080905095519880341874.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016