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Pixelated text and emoticon on black background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

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Pixelated text and emoticon on black background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

Pixelated text and emoticon on black background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated text groups

Dense Caption

Black background contains eight white pixelated star shapes. Four identical groups of cyan pixelated text "gracyie marie =) <3" appear in top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each group has three lines: first line "gracyie", second line "marie", third line emoticon "=) <3". All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and emoticon on black background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804131403401992245429

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gracyie marie =) <3
  • cyan text black background stars
  • pixel art four groups
  • text-based icon white stars

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • gracyie
  • marie
  • =) <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • four identical groups
  • text lines: gracyie, marie, =) <3
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804131403401992245429
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
625 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b862bdbaeb4e08e6bfa79034d56a606871a50ecc746af2e0e0d5dc5a42659b00.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
b862bdbaeb4e08e6
SHA-256
b862bdbaeb4e08e6bfa79034d56a606871a50ecc746af2e0e0d5dc5a42659b00
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073237

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and emoticon on black background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,658 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 628

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated text groups

Dense Caption

Black background contains eight white pixelated star shapes. Four identical groups of cyan pixelated text "gracyie marie =) <3" appear in top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each group has three lines: first line "gracyie", second line "marie", third line emoticon "=) <3". All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and emoticon on black background with white stars, repeated in four quadrants.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804131403401992245429

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gracyie marie =) <3
  • cyan text black background stars
  • pixel art four groups
  • text-based icon white stars

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • gracyie
  • marie
  • =) <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • four identical groups
  • text lines: gracyie, marie, =) <3
  • pixelated style
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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
200804131403401992245429
Archive entry
200804131403401992245429.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804131403401992245429.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804131403401992245429.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016