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A pixelated icon features a black and white star with red accents on a light gray background.

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A pixelated icon features a black and white star with red accents on a light gray background.

A pixelated icon features a black and white star with red accents on a light gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central star
  • irregular shape
  • red accents
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated image with a light gray background. It contains a central white star shape with black outlines and internal details. Red pixelated lines form curved accents around the star and a diagonal line across the lower portion. The star has a black border and internal black sections. The overall shape is irregular, with the star and red lines forming a cohesive design. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, and red pixels.

Description

  • A pixelated icon features a black and white star with red accents on a light gray background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white red star icon
  • pixelated star with red accents
  • light gray background star icon
  • irregular shape star icon
  • red accents star icon

Subjects

  • star

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  • black star
  • white star
  • red accents
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • irregular shape
  • diagonal red line
  • curved red lines
  • black outlines
  • central star

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071130131225345237407
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/33/333ad9804579d53b295432c00cb64bfd173b436086156849c901d6591200050b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
333ad9804579d53b
SHA-256
333ad9804579d53b295432c00cb64bfd173b436086156849c901d6591200050b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 12:34 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000004

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080003

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919997onnx/unsafe0.080003onnx/nsfw0.042045onnx/nsfl0.037959
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated icon features a black and white star with red accents on a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,159 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 648

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • light gray

Composition

  • central star
  • irregular shape
  • red accents
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated image with a light gray background. It contains a central white star shape with black outlines and internal details. Red pixelated lines form curved accents around the star and a diagonal line across the lower portion. The star has a black border and internal black sections. The overall shape is irregular, with the star and red lines forming a cohesive design. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, and red pixels.

Description

  • A pixelated icon features a black and white star with red accents on a light gray background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white red star icon
  • pixelated star with red accents
  • light gray background star icon
  • irregular shape star icon
  • red accents star icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • graphic

Subjects

  • star

Wordwall

  • black star
  • white star
  • red accents
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • irregular shape
  • diagonal red line
  • curved red lines
  • black outlines
  • central star
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:48 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20071130131225345237407
Archive entry
20071130131225345237407.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#20071130131225345237407.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071130131225345237407.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016