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Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two

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Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two

Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • centered text
  • star distribution

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered pink star shapes; four pink stars in the center arranged in a 2x2 grid; two rows of yellow pixelated text reading 'hottie' (two instances per row); all text and stars are static; no visible motion or animation changes; color palette includes red, pink, and yellow; text is lowercase with rounded pixelated font; stars have five points and varying sizes; stars are distributed across the background with higher density in the center.

Description

  • Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two

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

  • hottie pink stars red background
  • red background yellow text pink stars
  • hottie stars pixelated text
  • yellow text red background pink stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 star grid

Visible Text

  • hottie

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pink stars
  • yellow text
  • hottie text
  • pixelated font
  • star shapes
  • star
  • lowercase text
  • static image
  • red pink yellow colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803011549401370194599
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be085f67e2ca5765ed38bd5114e53a576d5e3c970342a1ad1d200d6326bd2b2e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
be085f67e2ca5765
SHA-256
be085f67e2ca5765ed38bd5114e53a576d5e3c970342a1ad1d200d6326bd2b2e
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
0.086498

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 542

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered text
  • star distribution

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered pink star shapes; four pink stars in the center arranged in a 2x2 grid; two rows of yellow pixelated text reading 'hottie' (two instances per row); all text and stars are static; no visible motion or animation changes; color palette includes red, pink, and yellow; text is lowercase with rounded pixelated font; stars have five points and varying sizes; stars are distributed across the background with higher density in the center.

Description

  • Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two

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

  • hottie pink stars red background
  • red background yellow text pink stars
  • hottie stars pixelated text
  • yellow text red background pink stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with pink star shapes and yellow text reading 'hottie' in two rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 star grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • hottie

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pink stars
  • yellow text
  • hottie text
  • pixelated font
  • star shapes
  • star
  • lowercase text
  • static image
  • red pink yellow colors
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:33 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200803011549401370194599
Archive entry
200803011549401370194599.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803011549401370194599.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803011549401370194599.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016