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Green background with white pixelated text 'ERIKA~' and blue pixelated asterisks below, showing animation where asterisks shift position.

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Green background with white pixelated text 'ERIKA~' and blue pixelated asterisks below, showing animation where asterisks shift position.

Green background with white pixelated text 'ERIKA~' and blue pixelated asterisks below, showing animation where asterisks shift position. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • asterisk movement

Animation Summary

  • Asterisks shift position from left to right while text remains static.

Composition

  • text centered top
  • asterisks centered bottom

Dense Caption

Green background. White pixelated text 'ERIKA~' in uppercase. Below text, five blue pixelated asterisks. Leftmost asterisk shifts from left to right across frames. Asterisks maintain blue color and pixelated style. Text remains static. Animation involves only asterisk movement. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Green background with white pixelated text 'ERIKA~' and blue pixelated asterisks below, showing animation where asterisks shift position.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200901281431251223058524

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ERIKA~ green background
  • blue asterisks animation
  • pixelated text animation
  • green background white text blue asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping

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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • ERIKA~

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white pixelated text
  • ERIKA~
  • blue asterisks
  • pixelated style
  • animation
  • asterisk movement
  • static text
  • five asterisks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901281431251223058524
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
771 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c3/c3cf313e23367c2572881503bca3e5d20440498196c0eb8c1518022284e8e1d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
c3cf313e23367c25
SHA-256
c3cf313e23367c2572881503bca3e5d20440498196c0eb8c1518022284e8e1d4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081595

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with white pixelated text 'ERIKA~' and blue pixelated asterisks below, showing animation where asterisks shift position.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,127 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 711

Review tags

  • asterisk movement (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • asterisks (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • asterisk movement

Animation

  • asterisk movement

Animation Summary

  • Asterisks shift position from left to right while text remains static.

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • text centered top
  • asterisks centered bottom

Dense Caption

Green background. White pixelated text 'ERIKA~' in uppercase. Below text, five blue pixelated asterisks. Leftmost asterisk shifts from left to right across frames. Asterisks maintain blue color and pixelated style. Text remains static. Animation involves only asterisk movement. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Green background with white pixelated text 'ERIKA~' and blue pixelated asterisks below, showing animation where asterisks shift position.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200901281431251223058524

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ERIKA~ green background
  • blue asterisks animation
  • pixelated text animation
  • green background white text blue asterisks

Objects

  • asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • asterisks

Visible Text

  • ERIKA~

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white pixelated text
  • ERIKA~
  • blue asterisks
  • pixelated style
  • animation
  • asterisk movement
  • static text
  • five asterisks
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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
200901281431251223058524
Archive entry
200901281431251223058524.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901281431251223058524.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901281431251223058524.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016