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Pixelated text and star symbols repeat across a purple background with pink and cyan accents.

Pixelated text and star symbols repeat across a purple background with pink and cyan accents. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal of identical text segments
  • symmetrical star placement at segment corners

Dense Caption

The image displays repeated pixelated text reading "karly and me are bored!!!" in bright pink, arranged in three horizontal rows. Each row contains three identical segments of the phrase separated by small gaps. Cyan and blue star-shaped icons appear at the top-left, top-right, middle-left, middle-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of each segment; some stars have trailing cyan dots. The background is solid purple. Text uses a retro 8-bit font style with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols repeat across a purple background with pink and cyan accents.

Identity Hypotheses

  • karly

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

Named Entities

  • karly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bored text
  • purple background star icons
  • repeated karly and me
  • 8-bit pixel art bored

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of identical text segments

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • karly and me are bored!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • karly

Wordwall

  • repeated text
  • purple background
  • pink pixelated text
  • cyan star icons
  • blue star icons
  • trailing cyan dots
  • 8-bit font
  • three horizontal

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801121736171695284886
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
639 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/bac1cbcd039611a1950b57067b591051abe079bd242f4fe76366bbc282c9d1bb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
bac1cbcd039611a1
SHA-256
bac1cbcd039611a1950b57067b591051abe079bd242f4fe76366bbc282c9d1bb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089243

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and star symbols repeat across a purple background with pink and cyan accents.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:55 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,392 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 615

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • bored (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text segments (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • cyan
  • blue

Composition

  • three horizontal of identical text segments
  • symmetrical star placement at segment corners

Dense Caption

The image displays repeated pixelated text reading "karly and me are bored!!!" in bright pink, arranged in three horizontal rows. Each row contains three identical segments of the phrase separated by small gaps. Cyan and blue star-shaped icons appear at the top-left, top-right, middle-left, middle-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of each segment; some stars have trailing cyan dots. The background is solid purple. Text uses a retro 8-bit font style with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols repeat across a purple background with pink and cyan accents.

Identity Hypotheses

  • karly

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

Mood

  • bored
  • playful

Named Entities

  • karly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bored text
  • purple background star icons
  • repeated karly and me
  • 8-bit pixel art bored

Objects

  • stars
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of identical text segments

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • repetitive layout

Subjects

  • text segments
  • star icons

Visible Text

  • karly and me are bored!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • karly

Wordwall

  • repeated text
  • purple background
  • pink pixelated text
  • cyan star icons
  • blue star icons
  • trailing cyan dots
  • 8-bit font
  • three horizontal
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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
200801121736171695284886
Archive entry
200801121736171695284886.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801121736171695284886.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801121736171695284886.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016