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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated text and pixelated shapes.

A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated text and pixelated shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text blocks arranged in two of two
  • vertical dark purple shapes between left-side text blocks

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Four identical blocks of black pixelated text reading "i love shannon mendilloo:]" arranged in two rows, each row containing two blocks. Between the top-left and bottom-left text blocks is a vertical dark purple pixelated shape; between the top-right and bottom-right text blocks is an identical vertical dark purple pixelated shape. The shapes appear to be static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated text and pixelated shapes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080416192921308430918

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love shannon mendilloo
  • pink background pixelated text
  • vertical purple shapes
  • four identical text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four text blocks arranged in two rows of two

Visible Text

  • i love shannon mendilloo:]

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • "i love shannon mendilloo:]"
  • four identical text blocks
  • two vertical dark purple shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080416192921308430918
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/dd880ccaf81b4042910c6e545685ef987a457119ef70361cd883eaca9e3afe88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
dd880ccaf81b4042
SHA-256
dd880ccaf81b4042910c6e545685ef987a457119ef70361cd883eaca9e3afe88
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 05:07 UTC
Run
1266
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000918

OpenAI category scores

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July 26, 2026 at 01:48 UTC
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1191
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July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated text and pixelated shapes.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 04:59 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,745 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • four text blocks arranged in two of two
  • vertical dark purple shapes between left-side text blocks

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Four identical blocks of black pixelated text reading "i love shannon mendilloo:]" arranged in two rows, each row containing two blocks. Between the top-left and bottom-left text blocks is a vertical dark purple pixelated shape; between the top-right and bottom-right text blocks is an identical vertical dark purple pixelated shape. The shapes appear to be static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated text and pixelated shapes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080416192921308430918

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love shannon mendilloo
  • pink background pixelated text
  • vertical purple shapes
  • four identical text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four text blocks arranged in two rows of two

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i love shannon mendilloo:]

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • "i love shannon mendilloo:]"
  • four identical text blocks
  • two vertical dark purple shapes
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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
20080416192921308430918
Archive entry
20080416192921308430918.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080416192921308430918.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080416192921308430918.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016