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Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in

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Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in

Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical units
  • four
  • one gray square in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white pixel dots resembling stars. Four rows of four identical units each: top row contains 'Single' (cyan), '0 yeah' (cyan), '<3 <3' (cyan); second row same; third row same; fourth row has three identical units and one gray square in bottom-right corner. All cyan text uses blocky, retro digital font with sharp edges.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709191858501434137556

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text star background
  • single 0 yeah <3 symbols
  • gray square bottom right
  • retro digital font black white cyan

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid of identical units
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan text grid star background

Visible Text

  • Single
  • 0 yeah
  • <3 <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white star dots
  • cyan text
  • <3 symbols
  • four
  • gray square
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709191858501434137556
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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/8c/8ca01f6260405dd4cfdb1861772e54ce86f9f0fdb09accadd144ed0db660d8c4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
8ca01f6260405dd4
SHA-256
8ca01f6260405dd4cfdb1861772e54ce86f9f0fdb09accadd144ed0db660d8c4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087951

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:10 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,631 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,118, response 622

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan
  • gray

Composition

  • identical units
  • four
  • one gray square in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white pixel dots resembling stars. Four rows of four identical units each: top row contains 'Single' (cyan), '0 yeah' (cyan), '<3 <3' (cyan); second row same; third row same; fourth row has three identical units and one gray square in bottom-right corner. All cyan text uses blocky, retro digital font with sharp edges.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709191858501434137556

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text star background
  • single 0 yeah <3 symbols
  • gray square bottom right
  • retro digital font black white cyan

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text and symbols on black background with white stars, repeated in grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: grid of identical units
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan text grid star background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • Single
  • 0 yeah
  • <3 <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white star dots
  • cyan text
  • <3 symbols
  • four
  • gray square
  • retro digital font
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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
200709191858501434137556
Archive entry
200709191858501434137556.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709191858501434137556.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709191858501434137556.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016