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Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a , surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions

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Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a , surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions

Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a , surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change across observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions between observations while text remains static.

Composition

  • text centered in
  • stars scattered around text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a 3x4 grid layout. White stars and gray stars appear in varying positions around the text: top-left corner has one white star, top row has two white stars and two gray stars, middle row has three white stars and two gray stars, bottom row has three white stars and two gray stars. The stars are scattered in different configurations across the grid. A light gray rectangular shape is visible in the bottom-right corner. The text 'ARTI' is consistently displayed in the same pixelated font across all grid positions.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a , surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white text ARTI stars
  • pixelated ARTI text stars
  • white gray stars ARTI
  • scattered stars ARTI text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a grid, surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x4 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text centered in grid cells
  • quarantined composition: 3x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: white gray stars ARTI grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated ARTI text grid stars

Visible Text

  • ARTI

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • text 'ARTI'
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • light gray rectangle
  • scattered star positions
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100215124212848168139
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31bc99918a9d5659eaa8a7bbb1d15d848a26a187f831b0f37c02f424d882124f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
31bc99918a9d5659
SHA-256
31bc99918a9d5659eaa8a7bbb1d15d848a26a187f831b0f37c02f424d882124f
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
0.090717

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a , surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,012 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 771

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • star positions change across observations (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text arti (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star positions change across observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions between observations while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • light gray

Composition

  • text centered in
  • stars scattered around text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a 3x4 grid layout. White stars and gray stars appear in varying positions around the text: top-left corner has one white star, top row has two white stars and two gray stars, middle row has three white stars and two gray stars, bottom row has three white stars and two gray stars. The stars are scattered in different configurations across the grid. A light gray rectangular shape is visible in the bottom-right corner. The text 'ARTI' is consistently displayed in the same pixelated font across all grid positions.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'ARTI' repeated in a , surrounded by white and gray stars in various positions

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white text ARTI stars
  • pixelated ARTI text stars
  • white gray stars ARTI
  • scattered stars ARTI text

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 3x4 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text centered in grid cells
  • quarantined composition: 3x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: white gray stars ARTI grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated ARTI text grid stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text 'ARTI'
  • stars

Visible Text

  • ARTI

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • text 'ARTI'
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • light gray rectangle
  • scattered star positions
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100215124212848168139
Archive entry
20100215124212848168139.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100215124212848168139.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100215124212848168139.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016