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Animated icon with repeating text patterns and blue stars on black background, showing subtle star movement.

Animated icon with repeating text patterns and blue stars on black background, showing subtle star movement. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position between observations

Animation Summary

  • Subtle star movement across static text and symbol layout.

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • scattered star elements

Dense Caption

Black background features repeated white text strings 'MCsteamy' and 'MCdreamy' in pixelated font. Each row alternates between these two phrases. Small blue stars appear scattered across the frame; some stars shift position slightly between observations. Below each main text line, smaller white symbols include an ampersand '&' and a '<3' heart symbol. The animation consists of minor star movements while all other elements remain static.

Description

  • Animated icon with repeating text patterns and blue stars on black background, showing subtle star movement.

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
  • 20080201172550943347985

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MCsteamy MCdreamy blue stars
  • repeating white text black background
  • blue stars shift position
  • <3 symbols ampersand

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Visible Text

  • MCsteamy
  • MCdreamy
  • &
  • <3

Wordwall

  • MCsteamy
  • MCdreamy
  • white text
  • black background
  • blue stars
  • & symbol
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated font
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080201172550943347985
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/21/21933e92000bb07d162174bcb60e41a41c3dc48cfbe07fb0edb30c480a1953f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
21933e92000bb07d
SHA-256
21933e92000bb07d162174bcb60e41a41c3dc48cfbe07fb0edb30c480a1953f2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.084559

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon with repeating text patterns and blue stars on black background, showing subtle star movement.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,174 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 647

Review tags

  • stars move slightly (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • blue stars (object, 0.80)
  • symbols (object, 0.80)
  • stars shift position between observations (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move slightly

Animation

  • stars shift position between observations

Animation Summary

  • Subtle star movement across static text and symbol layout.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • scattered star elements

Dense Caption

Black background features repeated white text strings 'MCsteamy' and 'MCdreamy' in pixelated font. Each row alternates between these two phrases. Small blue stars appear scattered across the frame; some stars shift position slightly between observations. Below each main text line, smaller white symbols include an ampersand '&' and a '<3' heart symbol. The animation consists of minor star movements while all other elements remain static.

Description

  • Animated icon with repeating text patterns and blue stars on black background, showing subtle star movement.

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
  • 20080201172550943347985

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MCsteamy MCdreamy blue stars
  • repeating white text black background
  • blue stars shift position
  • <3 symbols ampersand

Objects

  • blue stars
  • & symbols
  • <3 symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • MCsteamy
  • MCdreamy
  • &
  • <3

Wordwall

  • MCsteamy
  • MCdreamy
  • white text
  • black background
  • blue stars
  • & symbol
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated font
  • repeating pattern
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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
20080201172550943347985
Archive entry
20080201172550943347985.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080201172550943347985.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080201172550943347985.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016