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Pixelated cyan text with pink starbursts on a dark blue background, showing two identical horizontal text sequences.

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Pixelated cyan text with pink starbursts on a dark blue background, showing two identical horizontal text sequences.

Pixelated cyan text with pink starbursts on a dark blue background, showing two identical horizontal text sequences. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical horizontal text sequences
  • five starbursts per sequence
  • horizontal starburst arrangement
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with two identical horizontal sequences of cyan pixelated text. Each sequence consists of four distinct characters: a vertical line with a horizontal top segment, a curved shape with a vertical stem, a rounded shape with a vertical stem, and a curved shape with a horizontal top segment. Below each text sequence are five pink starburst shapes arranged horizontally; the third starburst in each row is slightly darker pink than the others. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text with pink starbursts on a dark blue background, showing two identical horizontal text sequences.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text dark blue background
  • pink starbursts dark blue background
  • two identical text sequences
  • darker pink starburst
  • pixelated text starbursts
  • dark blue background cyan text
  • horizontal starbursts
  • symmetrical text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: five pink starbursts per row

Visible Text

  • ?7?d?d

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • dark blue background
  • five pink starbursts per
  • third starburst darker pink
  • two identical text sequences
  • horizontal starburst arrangement
  • vertical character stems
  • curved character shapes
  • starburst shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707232102162093967209
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/956e167011268cd01ad1059f1b8655b44b2004c38b22ee7550c238d68f9fcb3a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
956e167011268cd0
SHA-256
956e167011268cd01ad1059f1b8655b44b2004c38b22ee7550c238d68f9fcb3a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069830

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cyan text with pink starbursts on a dark blue background, showing two identical horizontal text sequences.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 13:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 731

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • darker pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • starbursts (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • dark blue
  • pink
  • darker pink

Composition

  • two identical horizontal text sequences
  • five starbursts per sequence
  • horizontal starburst arrangement
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with two identical horizontal sequences of cyan pixelated text. Each sequence consists of four distinct characters: a vertical line with a horizontal top segment, a curved shape with a vertical stem, a rounded shape with a vertical stem, and a curved shape with a horizontal top segment. Below each text sequence are five pink starburst shapes arranged horizontally; the third starburst in each row is slightly darker pink than the others. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text with pink starbursts on a dark blue background, showing two identical horizontal text sequences.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text dark blue background
  • pink starbursts dark blue background
  • two identical text sequences
  • darker pink starburst
  • pixelated text starbursts
  • dark blue background cyan text
  • horizontal starbursts
  • symmetrical text layout

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: five pink starbursts per row

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • text characters
  • starbursts

Visible Text

  • ?7?d?d

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • dark blue background
  • five pink starbursts per
  • third starburst darker pink
  • two identical text sequences
  • horizontal starburst arrangement
  • vertical character stems
  • curved character shapes
  • starburst shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:04 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707232102162093967209
Archive entry
200707232102162093967209.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#200707232102162093967209.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707232102162093967209.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016