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Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'MEGAN' in four locations.

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Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'MEGAN' in four locations.

Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'MEGAN' in four locations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in four quadrants

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text 'MEGAN' in yellow, all-caps, pixelated font appear: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Stars are distributed across the background, some overlapping text. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'MEGAN' 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

  • MEGAN stars
  • yellow text black background
  • four MEGAN texts
  • pixelated MEGAN stars

Visible Text

  • MEGAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • yellow text
  • MEGAN text
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • star distribution
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711231925141369105596
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a872271658526c2facbf8b16c03e6d9938d125b25f12d4cba9701ca6fdc1c485.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
a872271658526c2f
SHA-256
a872271658526c2facbf8b16c03e6d9938d125b25f12d4cba9701ca6fdc1c485
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.108655

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'MEGAN' in four locations.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,161 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in four quadrants

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text 'MEGAN' in yellow, all-caps, pixelated font appear: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Stars are distributed across the background, some overlapping text. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'MEGAN' 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

  • MEGAN stars
  • yellow text black background
  • four MEGAN texts
  • pixelated MEGAN stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • MEGAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • yellow text
  • MEGAN text
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • star distribution
  • dithering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200711231925141369105596
Archive entry
200711231925141369105596.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711231925141369105596.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711231925141369105596.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016