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Yellow text 'Shooting Star' appears below star clusters on a black background, with white and gray stars scattered across the scene.

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Yellow text 'Shooting Star' appears below star clusters on a black background, with white and gray stars scattered across the scene.

Yellow text 'Shooting Star' appears below star clusters on a black background, with white and gray stars scattered across the scene. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like arrangement of text and stars
  • star clusters distributed across background

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple small white and gray stars. Four rows of yellow pixelated text reading 'Shooting Star' appear in three columns each row; top-left corner has two white stars, top-right has four stars (two white, two gray), middle section shows star clusters with varying white-to-gray ratios, bottom-left has a cluster of one white and two gray stars. The rightmost column includes a solid light gray rectangle at the bottom.

Description

  • Yellow text 'Shooting Star' appears below star clusters on a black background, with white and gray stars scattered across the scene.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shooting star text
  • yellow shooting star
  • pixel art stars
  • black background shooting star
  • star clusters yellow text
  • gray and white stars
  • light gray rectangle
  • retro digital shooting star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text and stars

Visible Text

  • Shooting Star

Visually Supported Entities

  • Shooting Star

Wordwall

  • yellow text 'Shooting Star'
  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • pixelated font
  • star clusters
  • three
  • four
  • light gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071216081925419956698
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
842 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/3282faf52b60e5794f406cdab768b67e3cb5d3fcfdded7f4c232005ab790887b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
3282faf52b60e579
SHA-256
3282faf52b60e5794f406cdab768b67e3cb5d3fcfdded7f4c232005ab790887b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087615

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow text 'Shooting Star' appears below star clusters on a black background, with white and gray stars scattered across the scene.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,670 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 672

Review tags

  • shooting star (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shooting star

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • like arrangement of text and stars
  • star clusters distributed across background

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple small white and gray stars. Four rows of yellow pixelated text reading 'Shooting Star' appear in three columns each row; top-left corner has two white stars, top-right has four stars (two white, two gray), middle section shows star clusters with varying white-to-gray ratios, bottom-left has a cluster of one white and two gray stars. The rightmost column includes a solid light gray rectangle at the bottom.

Description

  • Yellow text 'Shooting Star' appears below star clusters on a black background, with white and gray stars scattered across the scene.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shooting star text
  • yellow shooting star
  • pixel art stars
  • black background shooting star
  • star clusters yellow text
  • gray and white stars
  • light gray rectangle
  • retro digital shooting star

Objects

  • text
  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text and stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • Shooting Star

Visually Supported Entities

  • Shooting Star

Wordwall

  • yellow text 'Shooting Star'
  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • pixelated font
  • star clusters
  • three
  • four
  • light gray rectangle
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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
20071216081925419956698
Archive entry
20071216081925419956698.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071216081925419956698.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071216081925419956698.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016