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A static image with a pink background displaying the name 'erin' in white text repeated four times, surrounded by green and beige stars.

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A static image with a pink background displaying the name 'erin' in white text repeated four times, surrounded by green and beige stars.

A static image with a pink background displaying the name 'erin' in white text repeated four times, surrounded by green and beige stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like text arrangement
  • star scattering

Dense Caption

The image features a solid light pink background. Four instances of the word 'erin' appear in lowercase white pixelated font: top row (left to right) at positions 90, 375, 642, 918; middle row at 120, 390, 660, 930; bottom row at 110, 390, 660. Green stars (small and large) are scattered around the text: top-left corner has one small green star; top edge contains two small green stars and three beige stars; middle-left area has one small green star and one beige star; center-top has two small green stars and one beige star; right-middle has two small green stars and one beige star; bottom-right has two small green stars and one beige star. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • A static image with a pink background displaying the name 'erin' in white text repeated four times, surrounded by green and beige stars.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background erin text green stars
  • white text erin four times
  • green and beige star scattering
  • gray rectangle bottom right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like text arrangement

Visible Text

  • erin

Visually Supported Entities

  • erin

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text 'erin'
  • green stars
  • beige stars
  • four instances of 'erin'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080918140528178102673
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
800 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cbff3a2408379f701db7eb68abf2072b6690b1920e305c36ebf0e42fe9602ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
9cbff3a2408379f7
SHA-256
9cbff3a2408379f701db7eb68abf2072b6690b1920e305c36ebf0e42fe9602ab
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
0.063519

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a pink background displaying the name 'erin' in white text repeated four times, surrounded by green and beige stars.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,109 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 667

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • green
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • like text arrangement
  • star scattering

Dense Caption

The image features a solid light pink background. Four instances of the word 'erin' appear in lowercase white pixelated font: top row (left to right) at positions 90, 375, 642, 918; middle row at 120, 390, 660, 930; bottom row at 110, 390, 660. Green stars (small and large) are scattered around the text: top-left corner has one small green star; top edge contains two small green stars and three beige stars; middle-left area has one small green star and one beige star; center-top has two small green stars and one beige star; right-middle has two small green stars and one beige star; bottom-right has two small green stars and one beige star. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • A static image with a pink background displaying the name 'erin' in white text repeated four times, surrounded by green and beige stars.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background erin text green stars
  • white text erin four times
  • green and beige star scattering
  • gray rectangle bottom right corner

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like text arrangement

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • erin

Visually Supported Entities

  • erin

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text 'erin'
  • green stars
  • beige stars
  • four instances of 'erin'
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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
20080918140528178102673
Archive entry
20080918140528178102673.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080918140528178102673.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080918140528178102673.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016