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Purple background with white starbursts and repeated black text reading 'this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]'

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Purple background with white starbursts and repeated black text reading 'this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]'

Purple background with white starbursts and repeated black text reading 'this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • mirrored text layout
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Solid purple background contains multiple white four-pointed starburst shapes of varying sizes scattered across the frame. Black pixelated text appears in three lines: first line reads 'this icon', second line reads 'SPARKLES!', third line reads 'woot!!=]'. The same text and starbursts repeat on both sides of the image, creating a mirrored composition. White dots appear near the bottom center.

Description

  • Purple background with white starbursts and repeated black text reading 'this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]'

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809241737331026177511

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple starburst icon
  • sparkles woot buddy icon
  • pixel art text icon
  • mirrored digital icon

Visible Text

  • this icon
  • SPARKLES!
  • woot!!=]

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white starbursts
  • black pixelated text
  • this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]
  • mirrored layout
  • four-pointed stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809241737331026177511
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
657 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8fa47131e13fa19d86153b56afc47584d93943c3bd047faf8c4a71e7d557aedf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
8fa47131e13fa19d
SHA-256
8fa47131e13fa19d86153b56afc47584d93943c3bd047faf8c4a71e7d557aedf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.120783

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with white starbursts and repeated black text reading 'this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]'

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,920 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 647

Review tags

  • sparkling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • sparkling

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • mirrored text layout
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Solid purple background contains multiple white four-pointed starburst shapes of varying sizes scattered across the frame. Black pixelated text appears in three lines: first line reads 'this icon', second line reads 'SPARKLES!', third line reads 'woot!!=]'. The same text and starbursts repeat on both sides of the image, creating a mirrored composition. White dots appear near the bottom center.

Description

  • Purple background with white starbursts and repeated black text reading 'this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]'

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809241737331026177511

Mood

  • playful
  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple starburst icon
  • sparkles woot buddy icon
  • pixel art text icon
  • mirrored digital icon

Objects

  • starbursts

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • this icon
  • SPARKLES!
  • woot!!=]

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white starbursts
  • black pixelated text
  • this icon SPARKLES! woot!!=]
  • mirrored layout
  • four-pointed stars
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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
200809241737331026177511
Archive entry
200809241737331026177511.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809241737331026177511.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809241737331026177511.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016