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Pixelated text "DAVID IS AWESOME" in yellow on four colored backgrounds with two star icons, one black and one pink.

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Pixelated text "DAVID IS AWESOME" in yellow on four colored backgrounds with two star icons, one black and one pink.

Pixelated text "DAVID IS AWESOME" in yellow on four colored backgrounds with two star icons, one black and one pink. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Composition

  • four
  • text centered in each
  • star icons positioned below text in left

Dense Caption

Four panels display the phrase "DAVID IS AWESOME" in pixelated yellow text. Top-left panel: bright pink background with a small solid black five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-left panel: black background with a small solid pink five-pointed star below the text. Right side (both top and bottom): purple background for both panels, no stars visible on this side. All text uses identical pixelated font style across all four panels.

Description

  • Pixelated text "DAVID IS AWESOME" in yellow on four colored backgrounds with two star icons, one black and one pink.

Identity Hypotheses

  • DAVID

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

Named Entities

  • DAVID

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DAVID IS AWESOME
  • yellow text bright pink background
  • black star purple background
  • pink star black background

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: star icons positioned below text in left panels
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • DAVID IS AWESOME

Visually Supported Entities

  • DAVID

Wordwall

  • DAVID IS AWESOME
  • yellow text
  • bright pink background
  • black background
  • purple background
  • solid black star
  • solid pink star
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808151955311496697175
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/ef5a4409798929ad6a50242ea5fa8e8bd878be2b103210d9fc8fd08c3c5aa57d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
ef5a4409798929ad
SHA-256
ef5a4409798929ad6a50242ea5fa8e8bd878be2b103210d9fc8fd08c3c5aa57d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 00:58 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000044

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119092

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text "DAVID IS AWESOME" in yellow on four colored backgrounds with two star icons, one black and one pink.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,196 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 644

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • solid black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affirming (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • five pointed star (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Colors

  • yellow
  • bright pink
  • black
  • purple
  • solid black
  • solid pink

Composition

  • four
  • text centered in each
  • star icons positioned below text in left

Dense Caption

Four panels display the phrase "DAVID IS AWESOME" in pixelated yellow text. Top-left panel: bright pink background with a small solid black five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-left panel: black background with a small solid pink five-pointed star below the text. Right side (both top and bottom): purple background for both panels, no stars visible on this side. All text uses identical pixelated font style across all four panels.

Description

  • Pixelated text "DAVID IS AWESOME" in yellow on four colored backgrounds with two star icons, one black and one pink.

Identity Hypotheses

  • DAVID

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

  • playful
  • affirming

Named Entities

  • DAVID

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DAVID IS AWESOME
  • yellow text bright pink background
  • black star purple background
  • pink star black background

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: star icons positioned below text in left panels
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • star icons

Visible Text

  • DAVID IS AWESOME

Visually Supported Entities

  • DAVID

Wordwall

  • DAVID IS AWESOME
  • yellow text
  • bright pink background
  • black background
  • purple background
  • solid black star
  • solid pink star
  • pixelated font
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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
200808151955311496697175
Archive entry
200808151955311496697175.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808151955311496697175.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808151955311496697175.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016