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Bright pink background with multiple light pink star shapes scattered across the image, and four instances of the word "Sample" in white pixelated text.

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Bright pink background with multiple light pink star shapes scattered across the image, and four instances of the word "Sample" in white pixelated text.

Bright pink background with multiple light pink star shapes scattered across the image, and four instances of the word "Sample" in white pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with scattered stars and text.

Composition

  • random star distribution
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

The image features a solid bright pink background. Scattered across the background are multiple light pink star shapes of varying sizes and opacities. Four instances of the word "Sample" appear in white pixelated text, positioned in the upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right quadrants. The stars are distributed in a seemingly random pattern, with some stars overlapping the text. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

Bright pink background with multiple light pink star shapes scattered across the image, and four instances of the word "Sample" in white pixelated text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100323194019574756696

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink background light pink stars white text
  • pixelated retro style stars text
  • four sample instances bright pink
  • light pink stars scattered white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Sample

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • light pink stars
  • white pixelated text
  • four "Sample" instances
  • random star distribution
  • pixelated retro style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100323194019574756696
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac4b34ae698815730bf9fb15957cee1b8077cbf59d4b07d03b8c74e2e8aef89d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
ac4b34ae69881573
SHA-256
ac4b34ae698815730bf9fb15957cee1b8077cbf59d4b07d03b8c74e2e8aef89d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120957

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913204onnx/unsafe0.120957onnx/nsfw0.084452onnx/nsfl0.036505
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Bright pink background with multiple light pink star shapes scattered across the image, and four instances of the word "Sample" in white pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,431 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 793

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with scattered stars and text.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • light pink
  • white

Composition

  • random star distribution
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

The image features a solid bright pink background. Scattered across the background are multiple light pink star shapes of varying sizes and opacities. Four instances of the word "Sample" appear in white pixelated text, positioned in the upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right quadrants. The stars are distributed in a seemingly random pattern, with some stars overlapping the text. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

Bright pink background with multiple light pink star shapes scattered across the image, and four instances of the word "Sample" in white pixelated text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100323194019574756696

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink background light pink stars white text
  • pixelated retro style stars text
  • four sample instances bright pink
  • light pink stars scattered white text

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • Sample

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • light pink stars
  • white pixelated text
  • four "Sample" instances
  • random star distribution
  • pixelated retro style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100323194019574756696
Archive entry
20100323194019574756696.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100323194019574756696.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100323194019574756696.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016