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Pixel art icon with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

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Pixel art icon with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

Pixel art icon with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols on colored backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the icon appears static across all observations.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text left-aligned
  • stars positioned below text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant has yellow background with cyan text 'Never Give Up Hope <3' and red five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-left quadrant has pink background with identical cyan text and yellow five-pointed star below the text. Top-right and bottom-right quadrants have peach background with identical cyan text but no stars. All text uses blocky pixel font; all stars are solid-colored, flat 2D shapes. The icon is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805311825581004807980

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background cyan text star
  • pink background yellow star <3 symbol
  • peach background no stars

Objects

  • star

Visible Text

  • Never Give Up Hope <3

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink background
  • peach background
  • cyan text
  • red star
  • yellow star
  • <3 symbol
  • pixel art style
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805311825581004807980
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
771 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/94/945786e3b1503b9dc08be540bd118e32ab5fdd446561cd8fc67d93339dd3be88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
945786e3b1503b9d
SHA-256
945786e3b1503b9dc08be540bd118e32ab5fdd446561cd8fc67d93339dd3be88
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 21:05 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000218

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm/intent0.000218falseself-harm0.000014falsesexual0.000009falseharassment0.000007falseviolence0.000003falseillicit0.000001falseviolence/graphic0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
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
0.075747

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.937086onnx/unsafe0.075747onnx/nsfw0.039771onnx/nsfl0.035975
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art icon with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,659 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 588

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • peach (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the icon appears static across all observations.

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • peach
  • cyan
  • red

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text left-aligned
  • stars positioned below text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant has yellow background with cyan text 'Never Give Up Hope <3' and red five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-left quadrant has pink background with identical cyan text and yellow five-pointed star below the text. Top-right and bottom-right quadrants have peach background with identical cyan text but no stars. All text uses blocky pixel font; all stars are solid-colored, flat 2D shapes. The icon is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with four quadrants displaying text and star symbols on colored backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805311825581004807980

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background cyan text star
  • pink background yellow star <3 symbol
  • peach background no stars

Objects

  • star

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • Never Give Up Hope <3

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink background
  • peach background
  • cyan text
  • red star
  • yellow star
  • <3 symbol
  • pixel art style
  • blocky font
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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
200805311825581004807980
Archive entry
200805311825581004807980.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200805311825581004807980.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805311825581004807980.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016