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A static digital image with a bright pink background, green text reading "CHRISTINE" and repeating green symbols, and scattered cyan dots.

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A static digital image with a bright pink background, green text reading "CHRISTINE" and repeating green symbols, and scattered cyan dots.

A static digital image with a bright pink background, green text reading "CHRISTINE" and repeating green symbols, and scattered cyan dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static with repeating text and symbols.

Composition

  • horizontal
  • text repeated twice
  • symbols repeated in

Dense Caption

The image features a bright pink background with scattered cyan dots. Green text reading "CHRISTINE" appears twice horizontally. Green symbols resembling "<3" repeat in horizontal rows above and below the text. The symbols and text are rendered in a pixelated style with no visible animation or motion. The image contains no additional subjects, objects, or background elements beyond the described text, symbols, and dots.

Description

  • A static digital image with a bright pink background, green text reading "CHRISTINE" and repeating green symbols, and scattered cyan 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background cyan dots green text
  • CHRISTINE <3 symbols
  • pixelated text symbols
  • green <3 repeated pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: symbols repeated in rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • CHRISTINE
  • <3

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • cyan dots scattered
  • green text "CHRISTINE"
  • green symbols "<3"
  • pixelated style
  • no animation
  • repeating horizontal
  • two instances of text
  • scattered cyan dots

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802271150581083063192
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba09e05dab18229ffc6c9bb3a205bb17bcbe279242cbff72292f1223e4b6fa68.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
ba09e05dab18229f
SHA-256
ba09e05dab18229ffc6c9bb3a205bb17bcbe279242cbff72292f1223e4b6fa68
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118659

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.901766onnx/unsafe0.118659onnx/nsfw0.089434onnx/nsfl0.029225
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static digital image with a bright pink background, green text reading "CHRISTINE" and repeating green symbols, and scattered cyan dots.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 585

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static with repeating text and symbols.

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • green

Composition

  • horizontal
  • text repeated twice
  • symbols repeated in

Dense Caption

The image features a bright pink background with scattered cyan dots. Green text reading "CHRISTINE" appears twice horizontally. Green symbols resembling "<3" repeat in horizontal rows above and below the text. The symbols and text are rendered in a pixelated style with no visible animation or motion. The image contains no additional subjects, objects, or background elements beyond the described text, symbols, and dots.

Description

  • A static digital image with a bright pink background, green text reading "CHRISTINE" and repeating green symbols, and scattered cyan 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background cyan dots green text
  • CHRISTINE <3 symbols
  • pixelated text symbols
  • green <3 repeated pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: symbols repeated in rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • CHRISTINE
  • <3

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • cyan dots scattered
  • green text "CHRISTINE"
  • green symbols "<3"
  • pixelated style
  • no animation
  • repeating horizontal
  • two instances of text
  • scattered cyan dots
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
56
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
200802271150581083063192
Archive entry
200802271150581083063192.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802271150581083063192.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802271150581083063192.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016