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Black background with four white 'Mini' texts at corners, surrounded by pink dashed lines and asterisk-like symbols forming a symmetrical pattern.

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Black background with four white 'Mini' texts at corners, surrounded by pink dashed lines and asterisk-like symbols forming a symmetrical pattern.

Black background with four white 'Mini' texts at corners, surrounded by pink dashed lines and asterisk-like symbols forming a symmetrical pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four-corner placement
  • cross-shaped arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with four white 'Mini' texts positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Pink dashed lines form a cross shape connecting the corners, with additional pink dashed lines extending outward from the cross's midpoints. Pink asterisk-like symbols appear at the ends of the dashed lines and at the corners of the frame. The pattern is symmetrical along both horizontal and vertical axes. The text 'Mini' is rendered in a pixelated font with white pixels on black background. The pink elements are composed of solid and dashed lines with small asterisk-shaped pixels.

Description

Black background with four white 'Mini' texts at corners, surrounded by pink dashed lines and asterisk-like symbols forming a symmetrical pattern.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four mini texts pink dashed lines
  • symmetrical pixel art mini
  • black background mini text
  • pink asterisk lines mini

Visible Text

  • Mini

Wordwall

  • four 'Mini' texts
  • black background
  • pink dashed lines
  • asterisk-like symbols
  • symmetrical pattern
  • pixelated font
  • white text
  • pink accents
  • cross shape
  • corner placement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810311524451752398300
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
380 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
image/gif
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v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
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SHA-256
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
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1284
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July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
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Black background with four white 'Mini' texts at corners, surrounded by pink dashed lines and asterisk-like symbols forming a symmetrical pattern.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,459 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 689

Review tags

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  • black
  • white
  • pink

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  • symmetrical
  • four-corner placement
  • cross-shaped arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with four white 'Mini' texts positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Pink dashed lines form a cross shape connecting the corners, with additional pink dashed lines extending outward from the cross's midpoints. Pink asterisk-like symbols appear at the ends of the dashed lines and at the corners of the frame. The pattern is symmetrical along both horizontal and vertical axes. The text 'Mini' is rendered in a pixelated font with white pixels on black background. The pink elements are composed of solid and dashed lines with small asterisk-shaped pixels.

Description

Black background with four white 'Mini' texts at corners, surrounded by pink dashed lines and asterisk-like symbols forming a symmetrical pattern.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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

Mood

  • neutral
  • geometric

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  • symmetrical pixel art mini
  • black background mini text
  • pink asterisk lines mini

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  • pixel art
  • symmetrical
  • minimalist

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  • black background
  • pink dashed lines
  • asterisk-like symbols
  • symmetrical pattern
  • pixelated font
  • white text
  • pink accents
  • cross shape
  • corner placement
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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
200810311524451752398300
Archive entry
200810311524451752398300.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810311524451752398300.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810311524451752398300.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016