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Red text 'Mwah =]' on black background with yellow pixelated sparkles, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Red text 'Mwah =]' on black background with yellow pixelated sparkles, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Red text 'Mwah =]' on black background with yellow pixelated sparkles, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sparkles shift position
  • sparkles change density

Animation Summary

  • Yellow sparkles shift position and change density across frames while text remains static.

Composition

  • text centered
  • sparkles scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red text 'Mwah =]' appears five times on a black background. Yellow pixelated sparkles surround each text instance. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. Sparkles vary in density and position across the background. Text is rendered in a pixelated font with red color. Sparkles are small yellow squares. Background is solid black. Gray rectangle is uniform and untextured.

Description

  • Red text 'Mwah =]' on black background with yellow pixelated sparkles, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080826165209596793738

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text Mwah =] yellow sparkles
  • buddy icon yellow sparkles
  • Mwah =] text animation
  • pixelated text yellow sparkles
  • gray rectangle black background
  • buddy icon animation sparkles
  • text Mwah =] yellow squares
  • black background gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle may be a crop artifact

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Mwah =]

Wordwall

  • red text 'Mwah =}'
  • yellow pixelated sparkles
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • solid gray rectangle
  • small yellow squares
  • five text instances
  • sparkles surround text
  • uniform gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080826165209596793738
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/bebbc76184b5af14a15d2252eaa64029b88c6e695dafa0e93f22e940e2ebdac2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
bebbc76184b5af14
SHA-256
bebbc76184b5af14a15d2252eaa64029b88c6e695dafa0e93f22e940e2ebdac2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 10:21 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001166

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089364

OpenAI category scores

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Red text 'Mwah =]' on black background with yellow pixelated sparkles, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 825

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • yellow sparkles (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • sparkles shift position
  • sparkles change density

Animation Summary

  • Yellow sparkles shift position and change density across frames while text remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered
  • sparkles scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red text 'Mwah =]' appears five times on a black background. Yellow pixelated sparkles surround each text instance. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. Sparkles vary in density and position across the background. Text is rendered in a pixelated font with red color. Sparkles are small yellow squares. Background is solid black. Gray rectangle is uniform and untextured.

Description

  • Red text 'Mwah =]' on black background with yellow pixelated sparkles, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080826165209596793738

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text Mwah =] yellow sparkles
  • buddy icon yellow sparkles
  • Mwah =] text animation
  • pixelated text yellow sparkles
  • gray rectangle black background
  • buddy icon animation sparkles
  • text Mwah =] yellow squares
  • black background gray rectangle

Objects

  • yellow sparkles
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle may be a crop artifact

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Mwah =]

Wordwall

  • red text 'Mwah =}'
  • yellow pixelated sparkles
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • solid gray rectangle
  • small yellow squares
  • five text instances
  • sparkles surround text
  • uniform gray rectangle
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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
20080826165209596793738
Archive entry
20080826165209596793738.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080826165209596793738.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080826165209596793738.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016