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A static image with a light cyan background featuring repeated text and star decorations.

A static image with a light cyan background featuring repeated text and star decorations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three of text
  • stars scattered across background
  • gray rectangle in bottom right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of the text 'backwards circle bme!' in black pixelated font across three rows. The background is solid light cyan. Pink and white stars are scattered throughout, with some pink stars appearing larger than others. A gray rectangular block occupies the bottom-right corner. All elements remain static without animation.

Description

  • A static image with a light cyan background featuring repeated text and star decorations.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803291936291947619878

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • backwards circle bme! cyan stars
  • pixel art text pattern
  • light cyan background gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three rows of text

Visible Text

  • backwards circle bme!

Wordwall

  • light cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'backwards circle bme!' repeated
  • pink and white star decorations
  • gray rectangle in bottom right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803291936291947619878
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f35f58a426afd229812d72d101496d540b94a0cdae4fc26e8e07dffe88fa650b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
f35f58a426afd229
SHA-256
f35f58a426afd229812d72d101496d540b94a0cdae4fc26e8e07dffe88fa650b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126700

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a light cyan background featuring repeated text and star decorations.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:24 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,180 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 592

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three of text
  • stars scattered across background
  • gray rectangle in bottom right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of the text 'backwards circle bme!' in black pixelated font across three rows. The background is solid light cyan. Pink and white stars are scattered throughout, with some pink stars appearing larger than others. A gray rectangular block occupies the bottom-right corner. All elements remain static without animation.

Description

  • A static image with a light cyan background featuring repeated text and star decorations.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803291936291947619878

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • backwards circle bme! cyan stars
  • pixel art text pattern
  • light cyan background gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three rows of text

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • backwards circle bme!

Wordwall

  • light cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'backwards circle bme!' repeated
  • pink and white star decorations
  • gray rectangle in bottom right
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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
200803291936291947619878
Archive entry
200803291936291947619878.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803291936291947619878.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803291936291947619878.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016