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Pixelated text 'Mef' and 'MEF<3' repeated on cyan and green backgrounds with a star symbol in one frame.

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Pixelated text 'Mef' and 'MEF<3' repeated on cyan and green backgrounds with a star symbol in one frame.

Pixelated text 'Mef' and 'MEF<3' repeated on cyan and green backgrounds with a star symbol in one frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; the image is static with repeated text and star symbols on cyan and green backgrounds.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • background color blocks
  • star symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a static pixelated design with repeated text 'Mef' in purple and 'MEF<3' in purple on cyan and green backgrounds. The top-left section has cyan background with 'Mef' repeated five times and 'MEF<3' once, with a green star symbol to the right of the last 'Mef'. The bottom-left section has green background with 'Mef' repeated five times and 'MEF<3' once, with a light blue star symbol to the right of the last 'Mef'. The right side mirrors the left with cyan background for the top and green background for the bottom. All text is in a pixelated font. The star symbols are small and positioned to the right of the last 'Mef' in each section. The colors are cyan, green, purple, and light blue. The design is symmetrical with identical text patterns on both sides. The star symbols are the only distinct visual elements besides the text and background colors.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Mef' and 'MEF<3' repeated on cyan and green backgrounds with a star symbol in one frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100117183804625257277
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mef MEF<3 cyan green star
  • Mef repeated cyan background
  • MEF<3 green background
  • pixelated text star symbol
  • cyan green background Mef
  • Mef MEF<3 star symbol
  • Mef MEF<3 cyan green
  • Mef MEF<3 star

Objects

  • star symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image is a static design with no animation observed.

Visible Text

  • Mef
  • MEF<3

Wordwall

  • Mef text repeated
  • MEF<3 text
  • cyan background
  • green background
  • purple text
  • star symbol
  • light blue star
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical design
  • cyan and green backgrounds

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100117183804625257277
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/95da6f38c77104678666413286dea7a31fd2be4720dc0de186f8dafda49526b4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
95da6f38c7710467
SHA-256
95da6f38c77104678666413286dea7a31fd2be4720dc0de186f8dafda49526b4
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 12:18 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000716

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
1269
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'Mef' and 'MEF<3' repeated on cyan and green backgrounds with a star symbol in one frame.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,561 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 826

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • light blue star (object, 0.80)
  • star symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; the image is static with repeated text and star symbols on cyan and green backgrounds.

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • purple
  • light blue

Composition

  • repeated text
  • background color blocks
  • star symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a static pixelated design with repeated text 'Mef' in purple and 'MEF<3' in purple on cyan and green backgrounds. The top-left section has cyan background with 'Mef' repeated five times and 'MEF<3' once, with a green star symbol to the right of the last 'Mef'. The bottom-left section has green background with 'Mef' repeated five times and 'MEF<3' once, with a light blue star symbol to the right of the last 'Mef'. The right side mirrors the left with cyan background for the top and green background for the bottom. All text is in a pixelated font. The star symbols are small and positioned to the right of the last 'Mef' in each section. The colors are cyan, green, purple, and light blue. The design is symmetrical with identical text patterns on both sides. The star symbols are the only distinct visual elements besides the text and background colors.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Mef' and 'MEF<3' repeated on cyan and green backgrounds with a star symbol in one frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100117183804625257277
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mef MEF<3 cyan green star
  • Mef repeated cyan background
  • MEF<3 green background
  • pixelated text star symbol
  • cyan green background Mef
  • Mef MEF<3 star symbol
  • Mef MEF<3 cyan green
  • Mef MEF<3 star

Objects

  • star symbol
  • light blue star

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image is a static design with no animation observed.

Style

  • pixelated
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • Mef
  • MEF<3

Wordwall

  • Mef text repeated
  • MEF<3 text
  • cyan background
  • green background
  • purple text
  • star symbol
  • light blue star
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical design
  • cyan and green backgrounds
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Run
61
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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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
20100117183804625257277
Archive entry
20100117183804625257277.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#20100117183804625257277.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100117183804625257277.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016