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Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a

Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with four 'chay' text instances and white stars on black background.

Composition

  • four text instances in two of two
  • stars scattered across background

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white stars of varying sizes. Four identical red pixelated text instances reading 'chay' are arranged in two rows, each row containing two instances. The top-left instance is positioned above the bottom-left instance; the top-right instance is positioned above the bottom-right instance. All four 'chay' texts share the same font style and color. White stars appear as static elements scattered across the background.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a

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
  • 20081007045426349025223

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars red chay
  • four chay texts
  • pixelated chay star background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four text instances in two rows of two
  • quarantined retrieval: four chay texts grid layout

Visible Text

  • chay

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white star shapes
  • four red text instances
  • text reads 'chay'
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081007045426349025223
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34f4f6e952bc9be592041e465e9d4f5a9ae1612957df70bdfab166a75c020292.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
34f4f6e952bc9be5
SHA-256
34f4f6e952bc9be592041e465e9d4f5a9ae1612957df70bdfab166a75c020292
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000518

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July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
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Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,508 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 567

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with four 'chay' text instances and white stars on black background.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • four text instances in two of two
  • stars scattered across background

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white stars of varying sizes. Four identical red pixelated text instances reading 'chay' are arranged in two rows, each row containing two instances. The top-left instance is positioned above the bottom-left instance; the top-right instance is positioned above the bottom-right instance. All four 'chay' texts share the same font style and color. White stars appear as static elements scattered across the background.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a

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
  • 20081007045426349025223

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars red chay
  • four chay texts
  • pixelated chay star background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white star shapes and four red 'chay' text instances in a grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four text instances in two rows of two
  • quarantined retrieval: four chay texts grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • static image

Visible Text

  • chay

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white star shapes
  • four red text instances
  • text reads 'chay'
  • pixelated font
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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
20081007045426349025223
Archive entry
20081007045426349025223.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081007045426349025223.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081007045426349025223.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016