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Black background with scattered white stars and repeated text 'Famous' in pixelated font, some letters partially obscured.

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Black background with scattered white stars and repeated text 'Famous' in pixelated font, some letters partially obscured.

Black background with scattered white stars and repeated text 'Famous' in pixelated font, some letters partially obscured. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered star distribution
  • text clusters at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. White pixelated text reading 'Famous' appears in four distinct clusters: top-left (partially obscured), top-right (clear), bottom-left (partially obscured), and bottom-right (clear). Stars are scattered across the entire frame, some overlapping with text elements. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white stars and repeated text 'Famous' in pixelated font, some letters partially obscured.

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

  • black background white stars famous text
  • pixelated famous star scattered
  • four famous clusters black white
  • star scattering famous pixel art

Visible Text

  • Famous
  • amous

Visually Supported Entities

  • Famous

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • pixelated 'Famous' text
  • four text clusters
  • star scattering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070910162820853498089
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/2202ab4191c5ddd5d6cfbacc2e17e46421f07eb4af0f4a5294fe5b61af5f7e35.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
2202ab4191c5ddd5
SHA-256
2202ab4191c5ddd5d6cfbacc2e17e46421f07eb4af0f4a5294fe5b61af5f7e35
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110176

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with scattered white stars and repeated text 'Famous' in pixelated font, some letters partially obscured.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 570

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • five pointed stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated letters (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • scattered star distribution
  • text clusters at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. White pixelated text reading 'Famous' appears in four distinct clusters: top-left (partially obscured), top-right (clear), bottom-left (partially obscured), and bottom-right (clear). Stars are scattered across the entire frame, some overlapping with text elements. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white stars and repeated text 'Famous' in pixelated font, some letters partially obscured.

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

  • black background white stars famous text
  • pixelated famous star scattered
  • four famous clusters black white
  • star scattering famous pixel art

Objects

  • five-pointed stars
  • pixelated letters

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive text layout

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • Famous
  • amous

Visually Supported Entities

  • Famous

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • pixelated 'Famous' text
  • four text clusters
  • star scattering
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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
20070910162820853498089
Archive entry
20070910162820853498089.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070910162820853498089.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070910162820853498089.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016