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A static image with a white background filled by scattered star shapes in purple, teal, and light blue hues.

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A static image with a white background filled by scattered star shapes in purple, teal, and light blue hues.

A static image with a white background filled by scattered star shapes in purple, teal, and light blue hues. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text elements
  • asymmetric star distribution
  • large gray block on right

Dense Caption

The image features a white background populated with small, scattered star-shaped icons. The stars appear in three distinct colors: muted purple, soft teal, and pale blue. Some stars are solid while others have hollow centers. Two lines of text are present: 'kevin cai' positioned near the top center-left, and 'ann mai.' located at the bottom left. A large gray rectangular block occupies the lower right portion of the image.

Description

  • A static image with a white background filled by scattered star shapes in purple, teal, and light blue hues.

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

  • purple teal blue stars white background
  • kevin cai ann mai text
  • scattered star icons gray rectangle

Objects

  • star
  • rectangle

Subjects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • kevin cai
  • ann mai.

Visually Supported Entities

  • kevin cai
  • ann mai

Wordwall

  • white background
  • scattered stars
  • purple stars
  • teal stars
  • blue stars
  • hollow star centers
  • solid star shapes
  • kevin cai text
  • ann mai text
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071103193400810751242
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0f/0fde774c04cc1dd01cf1c2ecc15e16a8f9dbb40c4b47253d8adcd9ee43a2a854.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
0fde774c04cc1dd0
SHA-256
0fde774c04cc1dd01cf1c2ecc15e16a8f9dbb40c4b47253d8adcd9ee43a2a854
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:00 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067779

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a white background filled by scattered star shapes in purple, teal, and light blue hues.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,480 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 602

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • scattered composition (style, 0.80)
  • rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • purple
  • teal
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text elements
  • asymmetric star distribution
  • large gray block on right

Dense Caption

The image features a white background populated with small, scattered star-shaped icons. The stars appear in three distinct colors: muted purple, soft teal, and pale blue. Some stars are solid while others have hollow centers. Two lines of text are present: 'kevin cai' positioned near the top center-left, and 'ann mai.' located at the bottom left. A large gray rectangular block occupies the lower right portion of the image.

Description

  • A static image with a white background filled by scattered star shapes in purple, teal, and light blue hues.

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

  • purple teal blue stars white background
  • kevin cai ann mai text
  • scattered star icons gray rectangle

Objects

  • star
  • text
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • scattered composition

Subjects

  • stars
  • text
  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • kevin cai
  • ann mai.

Visually Supported Entities

  • kevin cai
  • ann mai

Wordwall

  • white background
  • scattered stars
  • purple stars
  • teal stars
  • blue stars
  • hollow star centers
  • solid star shapes
  • kevin cai text
  • ann mai text
  • gray rectangle
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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
20071103193400810751242
Archive entry
20071103193400810751242.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071103193400810751242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071103193400810751242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016