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A static image with a purple background displays green pixelated text reading "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." surrounded by white and purple star-shaped decorations.

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A static image with a purple background displays green pixelated text reading "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." surrounded by white and purple star-shaped decorations.

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Source terms

Composition

  • two of text
  • corner decorations
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with green pixelated text arranged in two rows. The text reads "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." with the word "awesome" partially obscured by a pixelated effect. White and purple star-shaped decorations are positioned at the corners and along the edges of the image. The text and decorations have a retro digital appearance with visible pixelation. The image is static with no animation observed.

Description

A static image with a purple background displays green pixelated text reading "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." surrounded by white and purple star-shaped decorations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background green text star decorations
  • click here to go to a awesome effect
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • static image star decorations

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of text
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text

Visible Text

  • Click
  • here to
  • go to a
  • awesome
  • effect...

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • white star decorations
  • purple star decorations
  • text reads Click here to go to a awesome effect
  • pixelated effect on text
  • retro digital appearance
  • static image
  • two of text
  • corner decorations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091211172712409406971
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/9384759d1ff3108d0621d9e0f74eaf867df1cee57b14a5c7fe80f1661b2d62c5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
9384759d1ff3108d
SHA-256
9384759d1ff3108d0621d9e0f74eaf867df1cee57b14a5c7fe80f1661b2d62c5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.095768

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a purple background displays green pixelated text reading "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." surrounded by white and purple star-shaped decorations.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,091 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 675

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • two of text
  • corner decorations
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with green pixelated text arranged in two rows. The text reads "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." with the word "awesome" partially obscured by a pixelated effect. White and purple star-shaped decorations are positioned at the corners and along the edges of the image. The text and decorations have a retro digital appearance with visible pixelation. The image is static with no animation observed.

Description

A static image with a purple background displays green pixelated text reading "Click here to go to a awesome effect..." surrounded by white and purple star-shaped decorations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background green text star decorations
  • click here to go to a awesome effect
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • static image star decorations

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of text
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Click
  • here to
  • go to a
  • awesome
  • effect...

Wordwall

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  • green pixelated text
  • white star decorations
  • purple star decorations
  • text reads Click here to go to a awesome effect
  • pixelated effect on text
  • retro digital appearance
  • static image
  • two of text
  • corner decorations
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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
20091211172712409406971
Archive entry
20091211172712409406971.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091211172712409406971.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091211172712409406971.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016