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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text and star symbols in pink, black, purple, and magenta colors.

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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text and star symbols in pink, black, purple, and magenta colors.

Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text and star symbols in pink, black, purple, and magenta colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • symmetrical text placement
  • asymmetrical star placement

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art composition divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background with pink text 'st3ph0ni3' (lowercase letters, numeric 3s replacing some Os) and a small pink star below the text. Top-right quadrant: purple background with identical pink text 'st3ph0ni3'. Bottom-left quadrant: magenta background with a solid black star at the bottom center. Bottom-right quadrant: purple background with identical pink text 'st3ph0ni3'. All text uses a blocky, retro pixel font; stars are simple 5-pointed shapes rendered in solid colors.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text and star symbols in pink, black, purple, and magenta colors.

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

  • st3ph0ni3 pixel art
  • four quadrant star icon
  • magenta purple pink text
  • retro digital buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • st3ph0ni3

Visually Supported Entities

  • st3ph0ni3

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black background top-left
  • purple background top-right
  • magenta background bottom-left
  • pink text 'st3ph0ni3'
  • small pink star top-left
  • solid black star bottom-left
  • blocky pixel font
  • numeric 3s replace Os

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070913165346495087439
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
554 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb793cbe72a71a38b60389175f15a33c6e4d969cf072d99004de12b7f0a74ad1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
fb793cbe72a71a38
SHA-256
fb793cbe72a71a38b60389175f15a33c6e4d969cf072d99004de12b7f0a74ad1
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 02:08 UTC
Run
1242
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000076

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000076falseharassment0.000051falseillicit0.000011falsehate0.000009falseself-harm0.000009falseviolence0.000006falseviolence/graphic0.000004falsesexual/minors0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.563445

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text and star symbols in pink, black, purple, and magenta colors.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:47 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,781 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 673

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text st3ph0ni3 (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • magenta
  • pink

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • symmetrical text placement
  • asymmetrical star placement

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art composition divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background with pink text 'st3ph0ni3' (lowercase letters, numeric 3s replacing some Os) and a small pink star below the text. Top-right quadrant: purple background with identical pink text 'st3ph0ni3'. Bottom-left quadrant: magenta background with a solid black star at the bottom center. Bottom-right quadrant: purple background with identical pink text 'st3ph0ni3'. All text uses a blocky, retro pixel font; stars are simple 5-pointed shapes rendered in solid colors.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text and star symbols in pink, black, purple, and magenta colors.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • st3ph0ni3 pixel art
  • four quadrant star icon
  • magenta purple pink text
  • retro digital buddy icon

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text 'st3ph0ni3'
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • st3ph0ni3

Visually Supported Entities

  • st3ph0ni3

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • black background top-left
  • purple background top-right
  • magenta background bottom-left
  • pink text 'st3ph0ni3'
  • small pink star top-left
  • solid black star bottom-left
  • blocky pixel font
  • numeric 3s replace Os
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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
20070913165346495087439
Archive entry
20070913165346495087439.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#20070913165346495087439.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070913165346495087439.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016