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Blue background with pink 'msn' text and white and light blue stars scattered across the scene.

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Blue background with pink 'msn' text and white and light blue stars scattered across the scene.

Blue background with pink 'msn' text and white and light blue stars scattered across the scene. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text placement
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Blue background with multiple instances of pink 'msn' text in lowercase. White and light blue stars scattered across the scene, varying in size and position. Stars include solid white and light blue pixelated shapes. A gray rectangular shape appears in the bottom-right corner. The image has a static composition with no visible motion changes.

Description

  • Blue background with pink 'msn' text and white and light blue stars scattered across the scene.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • msn blue background
  • pink msn stars
  • blue background white stars
  • msn light blue stars

Objects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • msn

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink 'msn' text
  • white stars
  • light blue stars
  • gray rectangle
  • static composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201010050648171187653518
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
797 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/96d9d82912cea86bc2ffb4007d373177c586db893a187d3d95b55115b4959547.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
96d9d82912cea86b
SHA-256
96d9d82912cea86bc2ffb4007d373177c586db893a187d3d95b55115b4959547
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 03:20 UTC
Run
15966
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Overall score
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Run
1272
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with pink 'msn' text and white and light blue stars scattered across the scene.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,453 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 581

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • white
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text placement
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Blue background with multiple instances of pink 'msn' text in lowercase. White and light blue stars scattered across the scene, varying in size and position. Stars include solid white and light blue pixelated shapes. A gray rectangular shape appears in the bottom-right corner. The image has a static composition with no visible motion changes.

Description

  • Blue background with pink 'msn' text and white and light blue stars scattered across the scene.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • msn blue background
  • pink msn stars
  • blue background white stars
  • msn light blue stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • digital

Visible Text

  • msn

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink 'msn' text
  • white stars
  • light blue stars
  • gray rectangle
  • static composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:10 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
201010050648171187653518
Archive entry
201010050648171187653518.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201010050648171187653518.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201010050648171187653518.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016