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Purple background with white stars, repeated text "Carolyn" and "#15" in black script, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Purple background with white stars, repeated text "Carolyn" and "#15" in black script, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Purple background with white stars, repeated text "Carolyn" and "#15" in black script, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like
  • repeated text
  • star pattern
  • partial rectangle

Dense Caption

Purple background with white stars. Repeated black script text "Carolyn" and "#15" across the image. Gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Text appears in three rows of three, with the bottom-right row partially obscured by the gray rectangle. The text is consistent across all visible sections, with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with white stars, repeated text "Carolyn" and "#15" in black script, 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple star background
  • Carolyn #15 text
  • gray rectangle corner
  • repeated script text
  • star pattern
  • script font
  • text
  • partial rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid

Visible Text

  • Carolyn
  • #15

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white stars
  • black script text
  • Carolyn
  • #15
  • gray rectangle
  • three
  • partially obscured
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081124131424933648593
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9053380471db2832b382163816a5f54e84af2114235effea53b2d0be63155fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
f9053380471db283
SHA-256
f9053380471db2832b382163816a5f54e84af2114235effea53b2d0be63155fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108030

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Purple background with white stars, repeated text "Carolyn" and "#15" in black script, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,339 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 639

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • script (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • like
  • repeated text
  • star pattern
  • partial rectangle

Dense Caption

Purple background with white stars. Repeated black script text "Carolyn" and "#15" across the image. Gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Text appears in three rows of three, with the bottom-right row partially obscured by the gray rectangle. The text is consistent across all visible sections, with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with white stars, repeated text "Carolyn" and "#15" in black script, 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple star background
  • Carolyn #15 text
  • gray rectangle corner
  • repeated script text
  • star pattern
  • script font
  • text
  • partial rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid

Style

  • script
  • repetitive
  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • Carolyn
  • #15

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white stars
  • black script text
  • Carolyn
  • #15
  • gray rectangle
  • three
  • partially obscured
  • repeated text
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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
20081124131424933648593
Archive entry
20081124131424933648593.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081124131424933648593.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081124131424933648593.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016