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Pixelated cyan background with pink text and star shapes, displaying 'MiXtEr' above '<33' in four repeated positions.

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Pixelated cyan background with pink text and star shapes, displaying 'MiXtEr' above '<33' in four repeated positions.

Pixelated cyan background with pink text and star shapes, displaying 'MiXtEr' above '<33' in four repeated positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Animation Summary

no visible animation changes observed across input observations; all elements remain static with identical positions and appearance in each frame

Composition

  • repeated layout
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains 17 distinct pink pixel elements: eight small plus signs (two at top-left, one top-center, two center-right, three bottom), six medium cross stars (one top-left, one top-center, one top-right, one middle-left, one middle-center, one middle-right), and three tiny dots (one near top-right, two near bottom). Four identical text blocks display 'MiXtEr' in uppercase pink pixel font above '<33' in matching style. All elements are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink text and star shapes, displaying 'MiXtEr' above '<33' in four repeated positions.

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
  • 200802081418002135976767

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pink pixel art
  • four MiXtEr <33 blocks
  • repeated star plus dot layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static input

Visible Text

  • MiXtEr
  • <33

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink text
  • plus signs
  • cross stars
  • tiny dots
  • four text blocks
  • pixelated font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802081418002135976767
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
590 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be2c4fae230d0cd93d6ae0e6d6bc54069d9086e4d5ec3228e2f9385c61f91bc0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
be2c4fae230d0cd9
SHA-256
be2c4fae230d0cd93d6ae0e6d6bc54069d9086e4d5ec3228e2f9385c61f91bc0
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 13:59 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000037

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
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image
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated cyan background with pink text and star shapes, displaying 'MiXtEr' above '<33' in four repeated positions.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,825 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 607

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

no visible animation changes observed across input observations; all elements remain static with identical positions and appearance in each frame

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • repeated layout
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains 17 distinct pink pixel elements: eight small plus signs (two at top-left, one top-center, two center-right, three bottom), six medium cross stars (one top-left, one top-center, one top-right, one middle-left, one middle-center, one middle-right), and three tiny dots (one near top-right, two near bottom). Four identical text blocks display 'MiXtEr' in uppercase pink pixel font above '<33' in matching style. All elements are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink text and star shapes, displaying 'MiXtEr' above '<33' in four repeated positions.

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
  • 200802081418002135976767

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pink pixel art
  • four MiXtEr <33 blocks
  • repeated star plus dot layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static input

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • MiXtEr
  • <33

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink text
  • plus signs
  • cross stars
  • tiny dots
  • four text blocks
  • pixelated font
  • static image
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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
200802081418002135976767
Archive entry
200802081418002135976767.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802081418002135976767.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802081418002135976767.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016