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Red background with white starbursts and repeated black text "Edward Sparkles" in four quadrants.

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Red background with white starbursts and repeated black text "Edward Sparkles" in four quadrants.

Red background with white starbursts and repeated black text "Edward Sparkles" in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical distribution
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

Solid red background contains scattered white pixelated starburst shapes. Four identical instances of the text "Edward Sparkles" appear in a grid layout: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Each instance uses bold black sans-serif font with slight pixelation. Starbursts are distributed across all quadrants without overlapping text or each other.

Description

  • Red background with white starbursts and repeated black text "Edward Sparkles" in four quadrants.

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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white starbursts Edward Sparkles
  • four Edward Sparkles text
  • pixelated Edward Sparkles red starburst

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four Edward Sparkles text grid

Visible Text

  • Edward Sparkles

Visually Supported Entities

  • Edward Sparkles

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white starbursts
  • four "Edward Sparkles" instances
  • bold black text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902131445561633459841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
630 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
c05785fca7ff8503
SHA-256
c05785fca7ff8503bb6bf5982446d83f251555b5dfa77430fdad3b9b71b1a5e9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 10:11 UTC
Run
1315
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
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Red background with white starbursts and repeated black text "Edward Sparkles" in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,872 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 577

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • starbursts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical distribution
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

Solid red background contains scattered white pixelated starburst shapes. Four identical instances of the text "Edward Sparkles" appear in a grid layout: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Each instance uses bold black sans-serif font with slight pixelation. Starbursts are distributed across all quadrants without overlapping text or each other.

Description

  • Red background with white starbursts and repeated black text "Edward Sparkles" in four quadrants.

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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white starbursts Edward Sparkles
  • four Edward Sparkles text
  • pixelated Edward Sparkles red starburst

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four Edward Sparkles text grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text
  • starbursts

Visible Text

  • Edward Sparkles

Visually Supported Entities

  • Edward Sparkles

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white starbursts
  • four "Edward Sparkles" instances
  • bold black text
  • pixelated font
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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
200902131445561633459841
Archive entry
200902131445561633459841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902131445561633459841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902131445561633459841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016