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Pixelated text and star icons on black background with alternating light purple and white stars.

Pixelated text and star icons on black background with alternating light purple and white stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Action

Style

Color

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Animation

star icons change state across observations: solid gray with dotted lines → solid light purple with dotted lines → solid white with dotted lines → solid white with dashed lines

Animation Summary

Star icons cycle through four states: solid gray with dotted lines, solid light purple with dotted lines, solid white with dotted lines, and solid white with dashed lines.

Composition

  • six text-star pairs arranged in two of three
  • text positioned below star icon
  • consistent spacing between elements

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated 'K+D 9.22.07' in light purple pixelated font across six positions; each position has a small star icon above it, alternating between solid light purple and outlined white styles; the star icons cycle through four states: solid gray with dotted lines (top-left), solid light purple with dotted lines (top-middle), solid white with dotted lines (top-right), and solid white with dashed lines (bottom-left); all text remains static while star icon states change.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star icons on black background with alternating light purple and white stars.

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
  • 20071021144358445983629

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • K+D 9.22.07 star icon animation
  • light purple pixelated text black background
  • star icons alternating styles
  • dotted lines dashed lines

Objects

  • star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six text-star pairs arranged in two rows of three

Visible Text

  • K+D
  • 9.22.07

Wordwall

  • K+D 9.22.07
  • light purple pixelated font
  • black background
  • star icons
  • alternating styles
  • dotted lines
  • solid gray
  • solid light purple
  • solid white
  • dashed lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071021144358445983629
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0a/0a00a9e009e478c94e258fd13421f14769ba337d8860110ff6108b90f07756f0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
0a00a9e009e478c9
SHA-256
0a00a9e009e478c94e258fd13421f14769ba337d8860110ff6108b90f07756f0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096018

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and star icons on black background with alternating light purple and white stars.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,396 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 756

Review tags

  • star icon cycles through states (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • star icons (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • star icon cycles through states

Animation

star icons change state across observations: solid gray with dotted lines → solid light purple with dotted lines → solid white with dotted lines → solid white with dashed lines

Animation Summary

Star icons cycle through four states: solid gray with dotted lines, solid light purple with dotted lines, solid white with dotted lines, and solid white with dashed lines.

Colors

  • black
  • light purple
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • six text-star pairs arranged in two of three
  • text positioned below star icon
  • consistent spacing between elements

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated 'K+D 9.22.07' in light purple pixelated font across six positions; each position has a small star icon above it, alternating between solid light purple and outlined white styles; the star icons cycle through four states: solid gray with dotted lines (top-left), solid light purple with dotted lines (top-middle), solid white with dotted lines (top-right), and solid white with dashed lines (bottom-left); all text remains static while star icon states change.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star icons on black background with alternating light purple and white stars.

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
  • 20071021144358445983629

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • K+D 9.22.07 star icon animation
  • light purple pixelated text black background
  • star icons alternating styles
  • dotted lines dashed lines

Objects

  • star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six text-star pairs arranged in two rows of three

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • K+D
  • 9.22.07

Wordwall

  • K+D 9.22.07
  • light purple pixelated font
  • black background
  • star icons
  • alternating styles
  • dotted lines
  • solid gray
  • solid light purple
  • solid white
  • dashed lines
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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
20071021144358445983629
Archive entry
20071021144358445983629.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071021144358445983629.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071021144358445983629.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016