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Pixelated cyan text and pink stars on black background, repeating phrases with animated star positions across frames.

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Pixelated cyan text and pink stars on black background, repeating phrases with animated star positions across frames.

Pixelated cyan text and pink stars on black background, repeating phrases with animated star positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars move horizontally and vertically

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions horizontally and vertically within the while text remains static

Composition

  • three of text and stars
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated cyan pixelated text: "# 1 friend", "# 1 guy", "# 1 bf", "# 1 reason" in three columns. Below each column, cyan text reads "y i luv u" with spaces between letters. Pink star icons appear at top-left and bottom-right of each column; their positions shift slightly across frames. Text remains static while stars animate horizontally and vertically within the grid layout.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text and pink stars on black background, repeating phrases with 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
  • 200804292047331735392067

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text black background
  • repeating phrases three
  • stars move horizontal vertical
  • y i luv u spaces letters

Objects

  • star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift positions horizontally and vertically within the grid layout while text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: three-column grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns of text and stars
  • quarantined animation: stars move horizontally and vertically within grid cells
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating phrases three-column grid

Visible Text

  • # 1 friend
  • # 1 guy
  • # 1 bf
  • # 1 reason
  • y i luv u

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • pink star icons
  • repeating phrases
  • three
  • spaces in "y i luv u"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804292047331735392067
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
702 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/3159f2ae13806655b65539a62ec4513adc56e24e196151c968773bff941f4796.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
3159f2ae13806655
SHA-256
3159f2ae13806655b65539a62ec4513adc56e24e196151c968773bff941f4796
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097099

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan text and pink stars on black background, repeating phrases with animated star positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 10:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,680 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 611

Review tags

  • stars shift positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star icons (object, 0.80)
  • text blocks (object, 0.80)
  • stars move horizontally and vertically (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift positions

Animation

  • stars move horizontally and vertically

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions horizontally and vertically within the while text remains static

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • three of text and stars
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated cyan pixelated text: "# 1 friend", "# 1 guy", "# 1 bf", "# 1 reason" in three columns. Below each column, cyan text reads "y i luv u" with spaces between letters. Pink star icons appear at top-left and bottom-right of each column; their positions shift slightly across frames. Text remains static while stars animate horizontally and vertically within the grid layout.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text and pink stars on black background, repeating phrases with 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
  • 200804292047331735392067

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text black background
  • repeating phrases three
  • stars move horizontal vertical
  • y i luv u spaces letters

Objects

  • text blocks
  • star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift positions horizontally and vertically within the grid layout while text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: three-column grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns of text and stars
  • quarantined animation: stars move horizontally and vertically within grid cells
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating phrases three-column grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • # 1 friend
  • # 1 guy
  • # 1 bf
  • # 1 reason
  • y i luv u

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • pink star icons
  • repeating phrases
  • three
  • spaces in "y i luv u"
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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
200804292047331735392067
Archive entry
200804292047331735392067.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200804292047331735392067.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804292047331735392067.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016