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Yellow text 'a1ex' on bright pink background with scattered green and purple stars, some stars animate near text.

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Yellow text 'a1ex' on bright pink background with scattered green and purple stars, some stars animate near text.

Yellow text 'a1ex' on bright pink background with scattered green and purple stars, some stars animate near text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars move near text

Animation Summary

  • Stars animate near the text 'a1ex' across observations.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with yellow text 'a1ex' repeated across the image. Green stars and purple stars are scattered throughout the background. In some positions, green stars appear near the text 'a1ex', and purple stars are visible in other areas. The stars exhibit slight animation changes across observations, with some stars appearing or moving near the text. A gray rectangular area is present in the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Yellow text 'a1ex' on bright pink background with scattered green and purple stars, some stars animate near text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070806125507355099495

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a1ex buddy icon
  • pink background star animation
  • yellow text bright pink
  • green purple stars animation
  • buddy icon star animation
  • a1ex star animation
  • buddy icon pink background
  • a1ex green stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • a1ex

Wordwall

  • yellow text 'a1ex'
  • bright pink background
  • green stars
  • purple stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
  • animation changes
  • repeated text
  • star positions
  • text 'a1ex'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806125507355099495
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/974e58c93ab3abb60f004fd294b5ba4748f292119c64fe444075c5f689563c88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
974e58c93ab3abb6
SHA-256
974e58c93ab3abb60f004fd294b5ba4748f292119c64fe444075c5f689563c88
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089883

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928360onnx/unsafe0.089883onnx/nsfw0.055824onnx/nsfl0.034059
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow text 'a1ex' on bright pink background with scattered green and purple stars, some stars animate near text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,360 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 859

Review tags

  • stars animate (action, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • green stars (object, 0.80)
  • purple stars (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text a1ex (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars animate

Animation

  • stars move near text

Animation Summary

  • Stars animate near the text 'a1ex' across observations.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • yellow
  • green
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with yellow text 'a1ex' repeated across the image. Green stars and purple stars are scattered throughout the background. In some positions, green stars appear near the text 'a1ex', and purple stars are visible in other areas. The stars exhibit slight animation changes across observations, with some stars appearing or moving near the text. A gray rectangular area is present in the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Yellow text 'a1ex' on bright pink background with scattered green and purple stars, some stars animate near text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070806125507355099495

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a1ex buddy icon
  • pink background star animation
  • yellow text bright pink
  • green purple stars animation
  • buddy icon star animation
  • a1ex star animation
  • buddy icon pink background
  • a1ex green stars

Objects

  • green stars
  • purple stars
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • animated

Subjects

  • text 'a1ex'

Visible Text

  • a1ex

Wordwall

  • yellow text 'a1ex'
  • bright pink background
  • green stars
  • purple stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
  • animation changes
  • repeated text
  • star positions
  • text 'a1ex'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:35 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070806125507355099495
Archive entry
20070806125507355099495.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806125507355099495.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806125507355099495.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016