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A static image with a purple background displays repeated text in cyan and green star shapes.

A static image with a purple background displays repeated text in cyan and green star shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical of text
  • scattered star shapes

Dense Caption

The image has a solid purple background. Cyan pixelated text appears in two vertical columns: 'Abcd', 'Amanda', 'Brigitte', 'Carly', 'Devon' (top column), then 'Abcd', 'Amanda', 'Brigitte', 'Carly', 'Devon' (bottom column). Green star shapes are scattered across the background. The text and stars remain static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a purple background displays repeated text in cyan and green star shapes.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200812161506442090420963

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cyan green text stars
  • Abcd Amanda Brigitte Carly Devon repeated
  • two vertical text
  • static pixelated text image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns text

Visible Text

  • Abcd
  • Amanda
  • Brigitte
  • Carly
  • Devon

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan pixelated text
  • green star shapes
  • two vertical of text
  • Abcd Amanda Brigitte Carly Devon repeated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812161506442090420963
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
698 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93ff5f7b77de8437128091f5b258ec4b6d7e52042ee502286f1c1a4bcab4d3dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
93ff5f7b77de8437
SHA-256
93ff5f7b77de8437128091f5b258ec4b6d7e52042ee502286f1c1a4bcab4d3dc
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
0.123625

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a purple background displays repeated text in cyan and green star shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,266 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 628

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • green

Composition

  • two vertical of text
  • scattered star shapes

Dense Caption

The image has a solid purple background. Cyan pixelated text appears in two vertical columns: 'Abcd', 'Amanda', 'Brigitte', 'Carly', 'Devon' (top column), then 'Abcd', 'Amanda', 'Brigitte', 'Carly', 'Devon' (bottom column). Green star shapes are scattered across the background. The text and stars remain static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a purple background displays repeated text in cyan and green star shapes.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200812161506442090420963

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cyan green text stars
  • Abcd Amanda Brigitte Carly Devon repeated
  • two vertical text
  • static pixelated text image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • Abcd
  • Amanda
  • Brigitte
  • Carly
  • Devon

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan pixelated text
  • green star shapes
  • two vertical of text
  • Abcd Amanda Brigitte Carly Devon repeated
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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
200812161506442090420963
Archive entry
200812161506442090420963.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812161506442090420963.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812161506442090420963.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016