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Purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' surrounded by yellow and purple stars.

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Purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' surrounded by yellow and purple stars.

Purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' surrounded by yellow and purple stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • star scattering

Dense Caption

The image displays a purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' arranged in a grid pattern. Yellow and purple stars are scattered across the background. The stars appear to be static, with no visible animation changes. The text is consistently positioned in each grid cell. The overall style is pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The image contains no additional objects or subjects beyond the text and stars.

Description

  • Purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' surrounded by yellow and purple stars.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background yellow stars
  • Daa Group bffl text
  • pixelated stars
  • repeated text purple stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid stars

Visible Text

  • Daa Group
  • bffl

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text
  • Daa Group
  • bffl
  • yellow stars
  • purple stars
  • pixelated style
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • static stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807310705321003692976
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080731070728458628662
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/936bfe0bab9fd34738ee6ce21303954eeaae8d9cb7919d8d904124ce6e5a916d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
936bfe0bab9fd347
SHA-256
936bfe0bab9fd34738ee6ce21303954eeaae8d9cb7919d8d904124ce6e5a916d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104565

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' surrounded by yellow and purple stars.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,219 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 638

Review tags

  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • purple stars (object, 0.80)
  • yellow stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • text
  • star scattering

Dense Caption

The image displays a purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' arranged in a grid pattern. Yellow and purple stars are scattered across the background. The stars appear to be static, with no visible animation changes. The text is consistently positioned in each grid cell. The overall style is pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The image contains no additional objects or subjects beyond the text and stars.

Description

  • Purple background with repeated white text 'Daa Group' and 'bffl' surrounded by yellow and purple stars.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background yellow stars
  • Daa Group bffl text
  • pixelated stars
  • repeated text purple stars

Objects

  • yellow stars
  • purple stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • Daa Group
  • bffl

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text
  • Daa Group
  • bffl
  • yellow stars
  • purple stars
  • pixelated style
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • static stars
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Full source records (2)

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
200807310705321003692976
Archive entry
200807310705321003692976.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807310705321003692976.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807310705321003692976.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080731070728458628662
Archive entry
20080731070728458628662.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080731070728458628662.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080731070728458628662.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016