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Pixelated text and star icons on black background with pink and white elements.

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Pixelated text and star icons on black background with pink and white elements.

Pixelated text and star icons on black background with pink and white elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two of text
  • centered white star
  • right-side gray star

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated text 'ALPHA', 'BETA', 'CHI', '1928' in light pink. Two distinct star shapes appear: a solid white four-pointed star centered between the two columns of text, and a gray four-pointed star positioned to the right of the second column's bottom row. The stars are static; no animation is visible.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star icons on black background with pink and white elements.

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
  • 200709212022391832043099
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • alpha beta chi 1928 text stars
  • pixelated pink white gray star icons
  • black background four-pointed stars
  • text with star symbols

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: text columns with star symbols

Visible Text

  • ALPHA
  • BETA
  • CHI
  • 1928

Wordwall

  • ALPHA
  • BETA
  • CHI
  • 1928
  • black background
  • light pink text
  • white star
  • gray star

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709212022391832043099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
316 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1e/1ec6f5c9690b7c6dab66feeb6d085abf3fa3ce5f8e152ca79f2e5a0188123295.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
1ec6f5c9690b7c6d
SHA-256
1ec6f5c9690b7c6dab66feeb6d085abf3fa3ce5f8e152ca79f2e5a0188123295
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.060778

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and star icons on black background with pink and white elements.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:38 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,943 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two of text
  • centered white star
  • right-side gray star

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated text 'ALPHA', 'BETA', 'CHI', '1928' in light pink. Two distinct star shapes appear: a solid white four-pointed star centered between the two columns of text, and a gray four-pointed star positioned to the right of the second column's bottom row. The stars are static; no animation is visible.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star icons on black background with pink and white elements.

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
  • 200709212022391832043099
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • alpha beta chi 1928 text stars
  • pixelated pink white gray star icons
  • black background four-pointed stars
  • text with star symbols

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: text columns with star symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • ALPHA
  • BETA
  • CHI
  • 1928

Wordwall

  • ALPHA
  • BETA
  • CHI
  • 1928
  • black background
  • light pink text
  • white star
  • gray star
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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
200709212022391832043099
Archive entry
200709212022391832043099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709212022391832043099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709212022391832043099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016