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Purple background with blue stars and four yellow 'C208' text elements arranged in a

Purple background with blue stars and four yellow 'C208' text elements arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • fixed text

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital graphic with a solid purple background overlaid by multiple blue five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text 'C208' appear in bright yellow, pixelated, block-style font, positioned in a 2x2 grid layout: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The stars are scattered across the background without a strict pattern, and the text elements remain fixed in place with no visible animation or movement.

Description

  • Purple background with blue stars and four yellow 'C208' text elements arranged in a

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue stars yellow text C208
  • C208 text blue stars
  • blue stars purple background C208
  • yellow text blue stars purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Purple background with blue stars and four yellow 'C208' text elements arranged in a grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: C208 text grid blue stars

Visible Text

  • C208

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • blue stars
  • yellow text
  • C208
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • fixed text
  • solid color background
  • five-pointed stars

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708271017281476010536
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c0/c02115371f493b5f6dcdd00e3a1f1d58bf2286f0e3464808b6f3b4ec829e153f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
c02115371f493b5f
SHA-256
c02115371f493b5f6dcdd00e3a1f1d58bf2286f0e3464808b6f3b4ec829e153f
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 06:08 UTC
Run
1346
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000014

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000014falseharassment0.000006falseillicit0.000003falseviolence/graphic0.000002falseviolence0.000002falsehate0.000001falseself-harm0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 12:05 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000522

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000522falsesexual0.000059falseself-harm0.000015falseviolence/graphic0.000009falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079921

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926153onnx/unsafe0.079921onnx/nsfw0.050349onnx/nsfl0.029573
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Purple background with blue stars and four yellow 'C208' text elements arranged in a

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,641 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 688

Review tags

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  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blue stars (object, 0.80)
  • yellow text (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • purple
  • blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • fixed text

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital graphic with a solid purple background overlaid by multiple blue five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text 'C208' appear in bright yellow, pixelated, block-style font, positioned in a 2x2 grid layout: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The stars are scattered across the background without a strict pattern, and the text elements remain fixed in place with no visible animation or movement.

Description

  • Purple background with blue stars and four yellow 'C208' text elements arranged in a

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue stars yellow text C208
  • C208 text blue stars
  • blue stars purple background C208
  • yellow text blue stars purple background

Objects

  • blue stars
  • yellow text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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  • quarantined retrieval: C208 text grid blue stars

Style

  • pixelated
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  • static

Visible Text

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Wordwall

  • purple background
  • blue stars
  • yellow text
  • C208
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
52
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
200708271017281476010536
Archive entry
200708271017281476010536.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708271017281476010536.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708271017281476010536.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016