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A static pixel art image with a purple background, displaying repeated text and decorative elements in cyan and pink.

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A static pixel art image with a purple background, displaying repeated text and decorative elements in cyan and pink.

A static pixel art image with a purple background, displaying repeated text and decorative elements in cyan and pink. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text sequence
  • four
  • bordered
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with a grid of cyan text and pink decorative elements. The text repeats 'mimi &', 'alex', 'not', and 'rich' in a vertical sequence across four columns. Pink asterisks and dotted lines form a border and divide the grid. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The layout is symmetrical with consistent spacing between elements.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a purple background, displaying repeated text and decorative elements in cyan and pink.

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

  • purple cyan pink pixel art
  • repeated text
  • mimi & alex not rich
  • blocky font symmetrical
  • cyan pink decorative elements
  • vertical text sequence
  • asterisks border dotted lines
  • pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined style: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined composition: bordered grid
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: blocky font symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid

Visible Text

  • mimi &
  • alex
  • not
  • rich

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan text
  • pink decorative elements
  • repeated text
  • blocky pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • asterisks border
  • dotted lines divider
  • vertical text sequence
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711301403211510998746
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
467 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cabd6aacda55d25b4e8ed30c456bccd7144d870a4d4e9a9575a813db26c050a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
9cabd6aacda55d25
SHA-256
9cabd6aacda55d25b4e8ed30c456bccd7144d870a4d4e9a9575a813db26c050a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.060487

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static pixel art image with a purple background, displaying repeated text and decorative elements in cyan and pink.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,316 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 679

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • vertical text sequence
  • four
  • bordered
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

The image features a solid purple background with a grid of cyan text and pink decorative elements. The text repeats 'mimi &', 'alex', 'not', and 'rich' in a vertical sequence across four columns. Pink asterisks and dotted lines form a border and divide the grid. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The layout is symmetrical with consistent spacing between elements.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a purple background, displaying repeated text and decorative elements in cyan and pink.

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

  • purple cyan pink pixel art
  • repeated text
  • mimi & alex not rich
  • blocky font symmetrical
  • cyan pink decorative elements
  • vertical text sequence
  • asterisks border dotted lines
  • pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined style: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined composition: bordered grid
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: blocky font symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid

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  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • symmetrical

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  • mimi &
  • alex
  • not
  • rich

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan text
  • pink decorative elements
  • repeated text
  • blocky pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • asterisks border
  • dotted lines divider
  • vertical text sequence
  • four
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:49 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)
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
200711301403211510998746
Archive entry
200711301403211510998746.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711301403211510998746.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711301403211510998746.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016