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Pixelated character with blonde hair in a blue top, partial torso and legs in sparkly pants, against bright cyan background with purple text.

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Pixelated character with blonde hair in a blue top, partial torso and legs in sparkly pants, against bright cyan background with purple text.

Pixelated character with blonde hair in a blue top, partial torso and legs in sparkly pants, against bright cyan background with purple text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: full figure head/shoulders
  • center: midsection torso/legs
  • right: dress only
  • text centered horizontally

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background features pixelated female figure on left: blonde braided hair, light blue spaghetti-strap top. Center shows midsection of same figure wearing black belt over sparkly dark blue pants; right side displays a sparkly dark blue dress. Purple asterisks scattered across background. Text reads "Was Meant To Shine" in large purple letters above repeated "Shine Shine Shine Shine" below, all in pixelated font.

Description

Pixelated character with blonde hair in a blue top, partial torso and legs in sparkly pants, against bright cyan background with purple text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blonde braided hair light blue top
  • sparkly dark blue pants silver buckle
  • cyan background purple text shine
  • female figure partial torso legs

Visible Text

  • Was Meant To Shine
  • Shine

Visually Supported Entities

  • female figure (partial torso, legs)

Wordwall

  • blonde braided hair
  • light blue spaghetti-strap top
  • black belt with silver buckle
  • sparkly dark blue pants
  • sparkly dark blue dress
  • cyan background
  • purple asterisks
  • pixelated text "Was Meant To Shine"
  • repeated pixelated text "Shine"

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / f
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / f
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/240b5c622f83ac2047992af84afd31f19b074d2f115e8abcbb625be2086f696b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 UTC
Archive ID
240b5c622f83ac20
SHA-256
240b5c622f83ac2047992af84afd31f19b074d2f115e8abcbb625be2086f696b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123939

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with blonde hair in a blue top, partial torso and legs in sparkly pants, against bright cyan background with purple text.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:53 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,854 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 713

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • glamorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black belt with silver buckle (object, 0.80)
  • purple asterisks (object, 0.80)
  • sparkly dark blue dress (object, 0.80)
  • sparkly dark blue pants (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • female figure partial torso legs (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • purple
  • black
  • blonde

Composition

  • left: full figure head/shoulders
  • center: midsection torso/legs
  • right: dress only
  • text centered horizontally

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background features pixelated female figure on left: blonde braided hair, light blue spaghetti-strap top. Center shows midsection of same figure wearing black belt over sparkly dark blue pants; right side displays a sparkly dark blue dress. Purple asterisks scattered across background. Text reads "Was Meant To Shine" in large purple letters above repeated "Shine Shine Shine Shine" below, all in pixelated font.

Description

Pixelated character with blonde hair in a blue top, partial torso and legs in sparkly pants, against bright cyan background with purple text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Mood

  • playful
  • glamorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blonde braided hair light blue top
  • sparkly dark blue pants silver buckle
  • cyan background purple text shine
  • female figure partial torso legs

Objects

  • black belt with silver buckle
  • sparkly dark blue pants
  • sparkly dark blue dress
  • purple asterisks

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • female figure (partial torso, legs)

Visible Text

  • Was Meant To Shine
  • Shine

Visually Supported Entities

  • female figure (partial torso, legs)

Wordwall

  • blonde braided hair
  • light blue spaghetti-strap top
  • black belt with silver buckle
  • sparkly dark blue pants
  • sparkly dark blue dress
  • cyan background
  • purple asterisks
  • pixelated text "Was Meant To Shine"
  • repeated pixelated text "Shine"
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:03 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / f
Alt
f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/f/f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070218223818id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/f/f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / f
Alt
f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/f/f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070218223818id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/f/f8686ef422e-IMBUDDY.gif