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Black background with yellow text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" repeated four times, surrounded by green plus signs and dots.

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Black background with yellow text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" repeated four times, surrounded by green plus signs and dots.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances
  • two
  • scattered green elements

Dense Caption

Black background with four instances of yellow pixelated text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" arranged in two rows of two. Green plus signs and dots scattered across the background, some forming a loose circular pattern around the text. Text is in uppercase with double exclamation marks. Pixelated font style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with yellow text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" repeated four times, surrounded by green plus signs and dots.

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

  • sparkly emos text
  • yellow text green dots
  • pixelated sparkly emos
  • four sparkly emos
  • green plus signs black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of two text
  • quarantined composition: two rows

Visible Text

  • SPARKLY EMO'S!!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow text
  • SPARKLY EMO'S!!
  • green plus signs
  • green dots
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • double exclamation marks
  • scattered green elements
  • two of two text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905162017081914335606
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
628 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
b491b37cf8bb69f3
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110532

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Black background with yellow text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" repeated four times, surrounded by green plus signs and dots.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,032 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 607

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • four text instances
  • two
  • scattered green elements

Dense Caption

Black background with four instances of yellow pixelated text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" arranged in two rows of two. Green plus signs and dots scattered across the background, some forming a loose circular pattern around the text. Text is in uppercase with double exclamation marks. Pixelated font style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with yellow text reading "SPARKLY EMO'S!!" repeated four times, surrounded by green plus signs and dots.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sparkly emos text
  • yellow text green dots
  • pixelated sparkly emos
  • four sparkly emos
  • green plus signs black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of two text
  • quarantined composition: two rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • SPARKLY EMO'S!!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow text
  • SPARKLY EMO'S!!
  • green plus signs
  • green dots
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
  • double exclamation marks
  • scattered green elements
  • two of two text
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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
200905162017081914335606
Archive entry
200905162017081914335606.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905162017081914335606.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905162017081914335606.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016