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Purple background with scattered pink circles and black text 'M' on a vertical line.

Purple background with scattered pink circles and black text 'M' on a vertical line. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered circles on solid background
  • two identical sections with text and line

Dense Caption

The image shows a purple background filled with multiple pink circular shapes of varying sizes. Two identical sections contain the letter 'M' in bold, dark gray or black font positioned above a thin vertical line that extends downward from the bottom edge of the visible area. The circles are scattered across the entire frame without overlapping each other.

Description

  • Purple background with scattered pink circles and black text 'M' on a vertical line.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple pink circles M
  • scattered circles text M
  • black line purple background
  • pink circle graphic design

Visible Text

  • M

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'M'

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink circles
  • black text M
  • vertical line
  • scattered circles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904101256231035976355
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a4213eb2445eddd291b232ff771ddaaec0c83a99f9befd216f3ce5cfc845350c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
a4213eb2445eddd2
SHA-256
a4213eb2445eddd291b232ff771ddaaec0c83a99f9befd216f3ce5cfc845350c
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000044

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115848

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with scattered pink circles and black text 'M' on a vertical line.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,196 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 531

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • graphic design (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • text m (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • scattered circles on solid background
  • two identical sections with text and line

Dense Caption

The image shows a purple background filled with multiple pink circular shapes of varying sizes. Two identical sections contain the letter 'M' in bold, dark gray or black font positioned above a thin vertical line that extends downward from the bottom edge of the visible area. The circles are scattered across the entire frame without overlapping each other.

Description

  • Purple background with scattered pink circles and black text 'M' on a vertical line.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • vibrant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple pink circles M
  • scattered circles text M
  • black line purple background
  • pink circle graphic design

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • graphic design

Subjects

  • text 'M'
  • circles

Visible Text

  • M

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'M'

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink circles
  • black text M
  • vertical line
  • scattered circles
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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
200904101256231035976355
Archive entry
200904101256231035976355.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904101256231035976355.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904101256231035976355.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016