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Pixelated text "Legit" appears multiple times on a bright pink background with small purple star icons scattered around.

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Pixelated text "Legit" appears multiple times on a bright pink background with small purple star icons scattered around.

Pixelated text "Legit" appears multiple times on a bright pink background with small purple star icons scattered around. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • multiple text placements
  • star-and-line arrangements

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Six instances of the word "Legit" in white pixelated font: three at top (left, center, right), two in middle row (left, center), one bottom-right. Small purple five-pointed stars appear as static elements; each star is accompanied by a vertical dotted line of blue pixels extending upward from its base. All text and symbols are rendered with 8-bit pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text "Legit" appears multiple times on a bright pink background with small purple star icons scattered around.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Legit" pixel art pink background
  • purple star icons blue dots
  • 8-bit text stars
  • buddy icon pink white purple blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Legit

Wordwall

  • "Legit" text
  • bright pink background
  • white pixelated font
  • purple five-pointed stars
  • blue dotted lines
  • eight-bit rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809161110061691071641
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
580 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a38311e8a7c46a45083e2d4906a6e230c47d1f5356ca8d9f334556bb8da83319.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
a38311e8a7c46a45
SHA-256
a38311e8a7c46a45083e2d4906a6e230c47d1f5356ca8d9f334556bb8da83319
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.132734

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text "Legit" appears multiple times on a bright pink background with small purple star icons scattered around.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,875 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,171, response 713

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue dotted lines (object, 0.80)
  • purple five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • purple star icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text legit instances (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • white
  • purple
  • blue

Composition

  • multiple text placements
  • star-and-line arrangements

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Six instances of the word "Legit" in white pixelated font: three at top (left, center, right), two in middle row (left, center), one bottom-right. Small purple five-pointed stars appear as static elements; each star is accompanied by a vertical dotted line of blue pixels extending upward from its base. All text and symbols are rendered with 8-bit pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated text "Legit" appears multiple times on a bright pink background with small purple star icons scattered around.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Legit" pixel art pink background
  • purple star icons blue dots
  • 8-bit text stars
  • buddy icon pink white purple blue

Objects

  • purple five-pointed stars
  • blue dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • static image

Subjects

  • text "Legit" instances
  • purple star icons

Visible Text

  • Legit

Wordwall

  • "Legit" text
  • bright pink background
  • white pixelated font
  • purple five-pointed stars
  • blue dotted lines
  • eight-bit rendering
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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
200809161110061691071641
Archive entry
200809161110061691071641.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#200809161110061691071641.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809161110061691071641.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016