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Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' and scattered white stars; right edge shows partial gray rectangle.

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Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' and scattered white stars; right edge shows partial gray rectangle.

Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' and scattered white stars; right edge shows partial gray rectangle. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating text
  • scattered stars
  • partial gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' in pixelated font; scattered white stars of varying sizes (some solid, some outlined) across the cyan background; right edge shows partial gray rectangle; no visible motion or animation changes; text and stars are static elements; no additional subjects, objects, or actions present.

Description

  • Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' and scattered white stars; right edge shows partial gray rectangle.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text
  • gab is here stars
  • repeating text cyan stars
  • gray rectangle cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows

Visible Text

  • gab is here

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink text 'gab is here'
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • repeating text
  • scattered stars
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081108045431416735568
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
896 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/caae04a2ce3623f7988c58bbd9ac0822c1ea60547245aac86505b526d0b2ee2f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
caae04a2ce3623f7
SHA-256
caae04a2ce3623f7988c58bbd9ac0822c1ea60547245aac86505b526d0b2ee2f
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 06:04 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000594

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.138684

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' and scattered white stars; right edge shows partial gray rectangle.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,661 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,119, response 618

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating text (style, 0.80)
  • scattered stars (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating text
  • scattered stars
  • partial gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' in pixelated font; scattered white stars of varying sizes (some solid, some outlined) across the cyan background; right edge shows partial gray rectangle; no visible motion or animation changes; text and stars are static elements; no additional subjects, objects, or actions present.

Description

  • Cyan background with repeating pink text 'gab is here' and scattered white stars; right edge shows partial gray rectangle.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text
  • gab is here stars
  • repeating text cyan stars
  • gray rectangle cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating text
  • scattered stars

Visible Text

  • gab is here

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink text 'gab is here'
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • repeating text
  • scattered stars
  • 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
20081108045431416735568
Archive entry
20081108045431416735568.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081108045431416735568.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081108045431416735568.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016