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A black background with repeated purple 'MEGAN' text and pink '<3' symbols, scattered green dots, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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A black background with repeated purple 'MEGAN' text and pink '<3' symbols, scattered green dots, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

A black background with repeated purple 'MEGAN' text and pink '<3' symbols, scattered green dots, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text and symbols
  • scattered dots
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple instances of purple pixelated uppercase text 'MEGAN', each positioned above a pink pixelated '<3' symbol. Green dot particles are scattered across the black background. A solid light gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. All elements remain static with no visible motion changes between observations.

Description

A black background with repeated purple 'MEGAN' text and pink '<3' symbols, scattered green dots, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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

  • MEGAN pink heart
  • purple MEGAN green dots
  • black background gray rectangle
  • pixelated text '<3'

Objects

  • rectangle

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • MEGAN

Visually Supported Entities

  • MEGAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple 'MEGAN'
  • pink '<3'
  • green dots
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709111341351198521658
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e3cd69bc456e37cf0b3dbcb907f02984e1830710ef7b2151d29df61e84b2560e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
e3cd69bc456e37cf
SHA-256
e3cd69bc456e37cf0b3dbcb907f02984e1830710ef7b2151d29df61e84b2560e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.151186

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911147onnx/unsafe0.151186onnx/nsfw0.100414onnx/nsfl0.050772
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A black background with repeated purple 'MEGAN' text and pink '<3' symbols, scattered green dots, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,665 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 540

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • pink
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text and symbols
  • scattered dots
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple instances of purple pixelated uppercase text 'MEGAN', each positioned above a pink pixelated '<3' symbol. Green dot particles are scattered across the black background. A solid light gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. All elements remain static with no visible motion changes between observations.

Description

A black background with repeated purple 'MEGAN' text and pink '<3' symbols, scattered green dots, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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

  • MEGAN pink heart
  • purple MEGAN green dots
  • black background gray rectangle
  • pixelated text '<3'

Objects

  • dots
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • MEGAN

Visually Supported Entities

  • MEGAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple 'MEGAN'
  • pink '<3'
  • green dots
  • gray rectangle
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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
200709111341351198521658
Archive entry
200709111341351198521658.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709111341351198521658.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709111341351198521658.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016