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Black background with white star shapes and pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in four locations.

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Black background with white star shapes and pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in four locations.

Black background with white star shapes and pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in four locations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in four clusters

Dense Caption

Black background with white star shapes in various sizes and positions. Four instances of pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in pixelated font, each positioned near a cluster of stars. Stars are five-pointed, white, and vary in size from small to large. Text is consistently styled with 'Erika' above 'Amerika' in each instance. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in four locations.

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

  • black background white stars pink text
  • Erika Amerika pixelated text
  • four instances Erika Amerika
  • white five-pointed stars varying sizes

Visible Text

  • Erika Amerika

Wordwall

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  • white stars
  • pink text
  • Erika Amerika
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • five-pointed stars
  • varying star sizes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708091258222087968749
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
a032dcb68ec513c2
SHA-256
a032dcb68ec513c29d09addf6b8b339d400acd36ce1c5692a7fdad15be02f1c7
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087168

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

Black background with white star shapes and pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in four locations.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,741 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 642

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • black
  • white
  • pink

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  • text in four clusters

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and pink text reading 'Erika Amerika' in four locations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

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  • black background white stars pink text
  • Erika Amerika pixelated text
  • four instances Erika Amerika
  • white five-pointed stars varying sizes

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  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • Erika Amerika

Wordwall

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  • white stars
  • pink text
  • Erika Amerika
  • pixelated font
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  • five-pointed stars
  • varying star sizes
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52
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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
200708091258222087968749
Archive entry
200708091258222087968749.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708091258222087968749.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708091258222087968749.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016