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A static image with a bright pink background displays repeating text and star symbols in black and cyan, with no visible animation.

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A static image with a bright pink background displays repeating text and star symbols in black and cyan, with no visible animation.

A static image with a bright pink background displays repeating text and star symbols in black and cyan, with no visible animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • star symbols above text
  • alternating star colors

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with repeating black text 'gabby' and 'custodia' in pixelated font. Cyan and purple star symbols with dotted lines appear above and below text rows. Text rows alternate between 'gabby' (top) and 'custodia' (bottom) in horizontal repetition. Star symbols shift position between rows: cyan stars with dotted lines appear above 'gabby' rows, purple stars with dotted lines appear above 'custodia' rows. All elements maintain consistent pixelated style and color scheme.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displays repeating text and star symbols in black and cyan, with no visible animation.

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

  • gabby custodia pink stars
  • pink background gabby custodia
  • cyan purple stars gabby custodia
  • repeating gabby custodia stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Visible Text

  • gabby
  • custodia

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text
  • cyan stars
  • purple stars
  • dotted lines
  • gabby text
  • custodia text
  • pixelated font
  • repeating text
  • star symbols
  • horizontal repetition
  • text
  • star position shift

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811231724001220006587
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a7171b42c2e697dcf6ffe310f9cf41bb4af4635f765202addade965e2f8bed0b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
a7171b42c2e697dc
SHA-256
a7171b42c2e697dcf6ffe310f9cf41bb4af4635f765202addade965e2f8bed0b
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 01:16 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000038

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 12:05 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001205

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001205falsesexual0.000751falseself-harm0.000472falseself-harm/intent0.000214falseviolence/graphic0.000019falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.240699

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with a bright pink background displays repeating text and star symbols in black and cyan, with no visible animation.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,605 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • cyan
  • purple

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • star symbols above text
  • alternating star colors

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with repeating black text 'gabby' and 'custodia' in pixelated font. Cyan and purple star symbols with dotted lines appear above and below text rows. Text rows alternate between 'gabby' (top) and 'custodia' (bottom) in horizontal repetition. Star symbols shift position between rows: cyan stars with dotted lines appear above 'gabby' rows, purple stars with dotted lines appear above 'custodia' rows. All elements maintain consistent pixelated style and color scheme.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displays repeating text and star symbols in black and cyan, with no visible animation.

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

  • gabby custodia pink stars
  • pink background gabby custodia
  • cyan purple stars gabby custodia
  • repeating gabby custodia stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • gabby
  • custodia

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text
  • cyan stars
  • purple stars
  • dotted lines
  • gabby text
  • custodia text
  • pixelated font
  • repeating text
  • star symbols
  • horizontal repetition
  • text
  • star position shift
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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
200811231724001220006587
Archive entry
200811231724001220006587.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811231724001220006587.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811231724001220006587.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016