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Yellow background with purple text reading "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" and small pink symbols changing across frames.

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Yellow background with purple text reading "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" and small pink symbols changing across frames.

Yellow background with purple text reading "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" and small pink symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change across frames

Animation Summary

  • Pink symbols change across frames: plus sign → asterisk → X → plus sign → dot → dot cluster → dot cluster → dot cluster → dot cluster.

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbols scattered

Dense Caption

Yellow background with purple pixelated text "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" in three rows. First row: "LAUREN"; second: "WAS"; third: "HERE!"; fourth: ")". Pink symbols change across frames: first frame has a pink plus sign; second frame has a pink asterisk; third frame has a pink X; fourth frame has a pink plus sign; fifth frame has a pink dot; sixth frame has a pink dot cluster; seventh frame has a pink dot cluster; eighth frame has a pink dot cluster; ninth frame has a pink dot cluster. All text remains static.

Description

  • Yellow background with purple text reading "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" and small pink symbols changing across frames.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lauren was here
  • yellow background purple text
  • pink symbols changing
  • buddy icon text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no pre-processing detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative hints

Visible Text

  • LAUREN
  • WAS
  • HERE!
  • =)

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • purple text
  • LAUREN WAS HERE! =)
  • pink plus sign
  • pink asterisk
  • pink X
  • pink dot
  • pink dot cluster

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904041811431605768170
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/acc3f9ad5bc8a5074c21f54dc0da4f798218cd3a6462d388250710a52e09973d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
acc3f9ad5bc8a507
SHA-256
acc3f9ad5bc8a5074c21f54dc0da4f798218cd3a6462d388250710a52e09973d
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
0.099799

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909074onnx/unsafe0.099799onnx/nsfw0.068056onnx/nsfl0.031743
Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow background with purple text reading "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" and small pink symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,236 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 707

Review tags

  • symbols change (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pink asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • pink dot (object, 0.80)
  • pink dot cluster (object, 0.80)
  • pink plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • pink x (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static text (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change

Animation

  • symbols change across frames

Animation Summary

  • Pink symbols change across frames: plus sign → asterisk → X → plus sign → dot → dot cluster → dot cluster → dot cluster → dot cluster.

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbols scattered

Dense Caption

Yellow background with purple pixelated text "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" in three rows. First row: "LAUREN"; second: "WAS"; third: "HERE!"; fourth: ")". Pink symbols change across frames: first frame has a pink plus sign; second frame has a pink asterisk; third frame has a pink X; fourth frame has a pink plus sign; fifth frame has a pink dot; sixth frame has a pink dot cluster; seventh frame has a pink dot cluster; eighth frame has a pink dot cluster; ninth frame has a pink dot cluster. All text remains static.

Description

  • Yellow background with purple text reading "LAUREN WAS HERE! =)" and small pink symbols changing across frames.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lauren was here
  • yellow background purple text
  • pink symbols changing
  • buddy icon text

Objects

  • pink plus sign
  • pink asterisk
  • pink X
  • pink dot
  • pink dot cluster

Preprocessing Notes

  • no pre-processing detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative hints

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static text

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • LAUREN
  • WAS
  • HERE!
  • =)

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • purple text
  • LAUREN WAS HERE! =)
  • pink plus sign
  • pink asterisk
  • pink X
  • pink dot
  • pink dot cluster
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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
200904041811431605768170
Archive entry
200904041811431605768170.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200904041811431605768170.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904041811431605768170.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016