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Pixelated black background with pink text "SOBER.<3" and scattered white/grey stars, animated star positions across frames.

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Pixelated black background with pink text "SOBER.<3" and scattered white/grey stars, animated star positions across frames.

Pixelated black background with pink text "SOBER.<3" and scattered white/grey stars, animated star positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions shift left to right across frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift left to right across three while text and rectangle remain static

Composition

  • three of four text elements
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated pink pixel text "SOBER.<3" in three rows of four. White and grey stars scatter across the frame; their positions shift between observations: top row has 4 stars (2 white, 2 grey), middle row has 5 stars (3 white, 2 grey), bottom row has 6 stars (4 white, 2 grey). Stars move left to right in each row. A solid light grey rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with pink text "SOBER.<3" and scattered white/grey stars, animated star positions across frames.

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
  • 20071025190756492661341

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SOBER.<3 stars black background
  • pink text white grey stars light grey rectangle
  • three four star movement

Objects

  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift left to right across three rows while text and rectangle remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four text elements
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows four columns star movement

Subjects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • SOBER.<3

Wordwall

  • SOBER.<3
  • black background
  • pink text
  • white stars
  • grey stars
  • star movement
  • light grey rectangle
  • three
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071025190756492661341
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
830 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/20/20eb3365197f53707919c8d090ce7537799b9933b89df74ab4f390949d2f9ca1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
20eb3365197f5370
SHA-256
20eb3365197f53707919c8d090ce7537799b9933b89df74ab4f390949d2f9ca1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.265285

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated black background with pink text "SOBER.<3" and scattered white/grey stars, animated star positions across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,456 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 664

Review tags

  • star movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • grey (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star movement

Animation

  • star positions shift left to right across frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift left to right across three while text and rectangle remain static

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • grey
  • light grey

Composition

  • three of four text elements
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated pink pixel text "SOBER.<3" in three rows of four. White and grey stars scatter across the frame; their positions shift between observations: top row has 4 stars (2 white, 2 grey), middle row has 5 stars (3 white, 2 grey), bottom row has 6 stars (4 white, 2 grey). Stars move left to right in each row. A solid light grey rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with pink text "SOBER.<3" and scattered white/grey stars, animated star positions across frames.

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
  • 20071025190756492661341

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SOBER.<3 stars black background
  • pink text white grey stars light grey rectangle
  • three four star movement

Objects

  • stars
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four text elements
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows four columns star movement

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • stars
  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • SOBER.<3

Wordwall

  • SOBER.<3
  • black background
  • pink text
  • white stars
  • grey stars
  • star movement
  • light grey rectangle
  • three
  • four
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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
20071025190756492661341
Archive entry
20071025190756492661341.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071025190756492661341.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071025190756492661341.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016