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Purple background with white star shapes and cyan text reading SMILE in four positions.

Purple background with white star shapes and cyan text reading SMILE in four positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances
  • star scatter

Dense Caption

Solid purple background contains scattered white pixelated stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'SMILE' appear in cyan, blocky, retro-style font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each 'SMILE' is rendered with a slight horizontal blur effect on the right side. The star positions are consistent across all visible frames.

Description

  • Purple background with white star shapes and cyan text reading SMILE in four positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple star smile icon
  • cyan smile pixel art
  • retro smile stars
  • four smile icons

Visible Text

  • SMILE

Visually Supported Entities

  • SMILE text

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • SMILE text
  • retro font
  • horizontal blur

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080112151210731711601
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
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 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
cc9436b1b3ea7dcc
SHA-256
cc9436b1b3ea7dccfb01cc7796361df07fae83de4c7b4b35cbb177e059379dd7
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079672

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Purple background with white star shapes and cyan text reading SMILE in four positions.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:52 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,529 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 538

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • four text instances
  • star scatter

Dense Caption

Solid purple background contains scattered white pixelated stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'SMILE' appear in cyan, blocky, retro-style font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each 'SMILE' is rendered with a slight horizontal blur effect on the right side. The star positions are consistent across all visible frames.

Description

  • Purple background with white star shapes and cyan text reading SMILE in four positions.

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

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple star smile icon
  • cyan smile pixel art
  • retro smile stars
  • four smile icons

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • SMILE

Visually Supported Entities

  • SMILE text

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • SMILE text
  • retro font
  • horizontal blur
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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
20080112151210731711601
Archive entry
20080112151210731711601.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#20080112151210731711601.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080112151210731711601.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016