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Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with yellow and orange stars below.

Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with yellow and orange stars below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text and stars

Dense Caption

Pink background displays two identical horizontal rows of pixelated white text: 'tAkEn <3' followed by '5-22-09 <3'. Below each row, five small star icons appear in sequence from left to right: four yellow stars and one orange star. The first row's fourth star is orange; the second row's third star is orange.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with yellow and orange stars below.

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
  • 200905251856212092713526

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tAkEn <3 5-22-09
  • pink background yellow stars orange star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: five stars per row
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • tAkEn <3
  • 5-22-09 <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • tAkEn <3
  • 5-22-09 <3
  • yellow stars
  • orange star
  • two identical
  • five stars per

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905251856212092713526
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
906 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bdd912df129358a9a22786265d5bb6c3a127c575545016aa703b40083fde73ca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
bdd912df129358a9
SHA-256
bdd912df129358a9a22786265d5bb6c3a127c575545016aa703b40083fde73ca
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073226

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with yellow and orange stars below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,146 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 625

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • horizontal
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text and stars

Dense Caption

Pink background displays two identical horizontal rows of pixelated white text: 'tAkEn <3' followed by '5-22-09 <3'. Below each row, five small star icons appear in sequence from left to right: four yellow stars and one orange star. The first row's fourth star is orange; the second row's third star is orange.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with yellow and orange stars below.

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
  • 200905251856212092713526

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tAkEn <3 5-22-09
  • pink background yellow stars orange star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: five stars per row
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • tAkEn <3
  • 5-22-09 <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • tAkEn <3
  • 5-22-09 <3
  • yellow stars
  • orange star
  • two identical
  • five stars per
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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
200905251856212092713526
Archive entry
200905251856212092713526.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#200905251856212092713526.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905251856212092713526.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016