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Green text 'i <8 ash shanley' on dark red background with cyan star; same text on teal background with no star; green text on cyan background with brown star; green text on teal background with no star.

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Green text 'i <8 ash shanley' on dark red background with cyan star; same text on teal background with no star; green text on cyan background with brown star; green text on teal background with no star.

Green text 'i <8 ash shanley' on dark red background with cyan star; same text on teal background with no star; green text on cyan background with brown star; green text on teal b…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star color changes from cyan to brown
  • background color changes between dark red, teal, cyan

Animation Summary

  • Star color changes from cyan to brown; background color changes between dark red, teal, cyan.

Composition

  • vertical text
  • star placement

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'i <8 ash shanley' appears in four variations: top-left on dark red background with cyan star, top-right on teal background without star, bottom-left on cyan background with brown star, bottom-right on teal background without star. All text uses identical pixelated font. Stars are 5-pointed, cyan in top-left, brown in bottom-left. Backgrounds are solid colors: dark red, teal, cyan. Text layout is vertical with 'i' at top, '<8' below, 'ash' below that, 'shanley' at bottom. No other visual elements present.

Description

Green text 'i <8 ash shanley' on dark red background with cyan star; same text on teal background with no star; green text on cyan background with brown star; green text on teal background with no star.

Identity Hypotheses

  • ash shanley

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 20100401151533211481174

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • ash shanley

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ash shanley text
  • cyan star brown star
  • dark red teal cyan backgrounds
  • green pixelated text i <8 ash shanley

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • no matte or frame artifacts visible

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

Visible Text

  • i
  • <8
  • ash
  • shanley

Visually Supported Entities

  • ash shanley

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • i <8 ash shanley
  • dark red background
  • teal background
  • cyan background
  • cyan star
  • brown star
  • 5-pointed stars
  • vertical text layout
  • solid color backgrounds

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100401151533211481174
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d814c09debefd531c0d0ca8a745f54bee615d2cae56bb1e55eb83bead82e90c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
d814c09debefd531
SHA-256
d814c09debefd531c0d0ca8a745f54bee615d2cae56bb1e55eb83bead82e90c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091796

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Green text 'i <8 ash shanley' on dark red background with cyan star; same text on teal background with no star; green text on cyan background with brown star; green text on teal background with no star.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,734 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 869

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • star color changes from cyan to brown (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star color changes from cyan to brown
  • background color changes between dark red, teal, cyan

Animation Summary

  • Star color changes from cyan to brown; background color changes between dark red, teal, cyan.

Colors

  • dark red
  • teal
  • cyan
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • vertical text
  • star placement

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'i <8 ash shanley' appears in four variations: top-left on dark red background with cyan star, top-right on teal background without star, bottom-left on cyan background with brown star, bottom-right on teal background without star. All text uses identical pixelated font. Stars are 5-pointed, cyan in top-left, brown in bottom-left. Backgrounds are solid colors: dark red, teal, cyan. Text layout is vertical with 'i' at top, '<8' below, 'ash' below that, 'shanley' at bottom. No other visual elements present.

Description

Green text 'i <8 ash shanley' on dark red background with cyan star; same text on teal background with no star; green text on cyan background with brown star; green text on teal background with no star.

Identity Hypotheses

  • ash shanley

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 20100401151533211481174

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • ash shanley

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ash shanley text
  • cyan star brown star
  • dark red teal cyan backgrounds
  • green pixelated text i <8 ash shanley

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • no matte or frame artifacts visible

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • i
  • <8
  • ash
  • shanley

Visually Supported Entities

  • ash shanley

Wordwall

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  • i <8 ash shanley
  • dark red background
  • teal background
  • cyan background
  • cyan star
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  • 5-pointed stars
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  • solid color backgrounds
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Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100401151533211481174
Archive entry
20100401151533211481174.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100401151533211481174.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100401151533211481174.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016