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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a pattern

A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated sections

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with red pixelated text and star symbols. Text reads "RIP Dara Care 1.26.09" in a grid layout. Each text block is surrounded by small red stars and dotted lines. The text and symbols repeat in six identical sections across the image. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a pattern

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

  • RIP Dara Care 1.26.09
  • pink background red text
  • memorial icon
  • Dara Care 1.26.09 pink icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout memorial icon

Visible Text

  • RIP
  • Dara Care
  • 1.26.09

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • red pixelated text
  • RIP Dara Care 1.26.09
  • small red stars
  • dotted lines
  • blocky digital font
  • repeated sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901271652311658643157
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
8f9931611f4d4f09
SHA-256
8f9931611f4d4f0962732f2c2ab5168b903feb370800f219b8606d6e30579c76
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:53 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133427

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,010 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,172, response 660

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • memorial (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • red

Composition

  • repeated sections

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with red pixelated text and star symbols. Text reads "RIP Dara Care 1.26.09" in a grid layout. Each text block is surrounded by small red stars and dotted lines. The text and symbols repeat in six identical sections across the image. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a pattern

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

Mood

  • somber
  • memorial

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • RIP Dara Care 1.26.09
  • pink background red text
  • memorial icon
  • Dara Care 1.26.09 pink icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated red text and star symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout memorial icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • RIP
  • Dara Care
  • 1.26.09

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • red pixelated text
  • RIP Dara Care 1.26.09
  • small red stars
  • dotted lines
  • blocky digital font
  • repeated sections
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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
200901271652311658643157
Archive entry
200901271652311658643157.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901271652311658643157.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901271652311658643157.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016