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Red pixelated text on black background with purple asterisks, displaying repeated phrases and partial words.

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Red pixelated text on black background with purple asterisks, displaying repeated phrases and partial words.

Red pixelated text on black background with purple asterisks, displaying repeated phrases and partial words. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in four horizontal lines
  • asterisks centered below text

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text in multiple lines: 'massie massie', 'bayy.bee bayy.bee', 'shesiz Oneshesiz One', 'Of a kiindOf a kiind'. Below text, purple asterisks arranged as four small stars and one larger star on each side of the central line. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with purple asterisks, displaying repeated phrases and partial words.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802041707401623654025

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • massie bayy.bee shesiz Oneshesiz One
  • Of a kiind purple asterisks

Visible Text

  • massie
  • bayy.bee
  • shesiz
  • Oneshesiz
  • One
  • Of a kiind

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • purple asterisks
  • massie massie
  • bayy.bee bayy.bee
  • shesiz Oneshesiz One
  • Of a kiindOf a kiind
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802041707401623654025
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9acf14c021717a73969d21e5beec28483c6084578b5c6bc94f593290d2501f0b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
9acf14c021717a73
SHA-256
9acf14c021717a73969d21e5beec28483c6084578b5c6bc94f593290d2501f0b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.249366

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on black background with purple asterisks, displaying repeated phrases and partial words.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,740 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital display (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • text arranged in four horizontal lines
  • asterisks centered below text

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text in multiple lines: 'massie massie', 'bayy.bee bayy.bee', 'shesiz Oneshesiz One', 'Of a kiindOf a kiind'. Below text, purple asterisks arranged as four small stars and one larger star on each side of the central line. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with purple asterisks, displaying repeated phrases and partial words.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802041707401623654025

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • massie bayy.bee shesiz Oneshesiz One
  • Of a kiind purple asterisks

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution digital display

Visible Text

  • massie
  • bayy.bee
  • shesiz
  • Oneshesiz
  • One
  • Of a kiind

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • purple asterisks
  • massie massie
  • bayy.bee bayy.bee
  • shesiz Oneshesiz One
  • Of a kiindOf a kiind
  • blocky font
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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
200802041707401623654025
Archive entry
200802041707401623654025.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802041707401623654025.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802041707401623654025.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016