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Red text 'julie and matt' above five pink asterisks on white background, with slight variation in asterisk arrangement between frames.

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Red text 'julie and matt' above five pink asterisks on white background, with slight variation in asterisk arrangement between frames.

Red text 'julie and matt' above five pink asterisks on white background, with slight variation in asterisk arrangement between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • asterisk arrangement changes

Animation Summary

  • The arrangement of the five pink asterisks changes between frames while the red text 'julie and matt' remains identical.

Composition

  • text centered
  • asterisks centered below text
  • horizontal arrangement

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text 'julie' appears above 'and' and 'matt' in three lines on white background. Below text, five pink asterisks are arranged horizontally. In the first frame, the asterisks are: light pink, medium pink, light pink, medium pink, light pink. In the second frame, the asterisks are: medium pink, light pink, medium pink, light pink, medium pink. The text remains identical across both frames.

Description

  • Red text 'julie and matt' above five pink asterisks on white background, with slight variation in asterisk arrangement between frames.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • julie and matt pink asterisks
  • red text pink asterisks
  • julie and matt animation
  • text and asterisks animation
  • pink asterisks arrangement change
  • red text animation
  • julie and matt white background
  • pixelated text animation

Visible Text

  • julie
  • and
  • matt

Wordwall

  • red text
  • julie
  • and
  • matt
  • pink asterisks
  • white background
  • pixelated text
  • five asterisks
  • arranged horizontally
  • text identical across frames
  • asterisk arrangement changes
  • light pink
  • medium pink

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071123124359267604709
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
822 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
990d01bffdab96cc
SHA-256
990d01bffdab96cc5eb46a2c8526665ac81f1d8e824e9fca18cfe6d71da533f5
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081687

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

Red text 'julie and matt' above five pink asterisks on white background, with slight variation in asterisk arrangement between frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,942 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 741

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • asterisks (object, 0.80)
  • asterisk arrangement changes (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • asterisk arrangement changes

Animation Summary

  • The arrangement of the five pink asterisks changes between frames while the red text 'julie and matt' remains identical.

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • text centered
  • asterisks centered below text
  • horizontal arrangement

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text 'julie' appears above 'and' and 'matt' in three lines on white background. Below text, five pink asterisks are arranged horizontally. In the first frame, the asterisks are: light pink, medium pink, light pink, medium pink, light pink. In the second frame, the asterisks are: medium pink, light pink, medium pink, light pink, medium pink. The text remains identical across both frames.

Description

  • Red text 'julie and matt' above five pink asterisks on white background, with slight variation in asterisk arrangement between frames.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • julie and matt pink asterisks
  • red text pink asterisks
  • julie and matt animation
  • text and asterisks animation
  • pink asterisks arrangement change
  • red text animation
  • julie and matt white background
  • pixelated text animation

Objects

  • asterisks

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • julie
  • and
  • matt

Wordwall

  • red text
  • julie
  • and
  • matt
  • pink asterisks
  • white background
  • pixelated text
  • five asterisks
  • arranged horizontally
  • text identical across frames
  • asterisk arrangement changes
  • light pink
  • medium pink
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Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:13 UTC
Run
53
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)
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
20071123124359267604709
Archive entry
20071123124359267604709.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071123124359267604709.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071123124359267604709.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016