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Black background with white and gray stars scattered across, repeated 'hm x3' text in pixelated font at multiple positions.

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Black background with white and gray stars scattered across, repeated 'hm x3' text in pixelated font at multiple positions.

Black background with white and gray stars scattered across, repeated 'hm x3' text in pixelated font at multiple positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text in
  • light gray rectangle at bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with scattered white and gray star shapes. Four instances of the text "hm x3" appear in a pixelated font: top row (left to right), middle row (left to right), bottom row (left to right). The stars vary in size and brightness, with some appearing as solid white and others as lighter gray. A light gray rectangular shape is present at the bottom-right corner of the image.

Description

  • Black background with white and gray stars scattered across, repeated 'hm x3' text in pixelated font at multiple 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "hm x3" stars
  • pixelated "hm x3" text
  • black background white gray stars
  • four instances of hm x3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text in rows

Visible Text

  • hm x3

Visually Supported Entities

  • "hm x3" text

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • "hm x3" text
  • pixelated font
  • four instances
  • scattered stars
  • light gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008092416403511819435
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
791 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34f5f0ebc438f1321f0d5dc4d3712668a838f97eec55927e6f794a017069210e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
34f5f0ebc438f132
SHA-256
34f5f0ebc438f1321f0d5dc4d3712668a838f97eec55927e6f794a017069210e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079662

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930713onnx/unsafe0.079662onnx/nsfw0.040048onnx/nsfl0.039614
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Black background with white and gray stars scattered across, repeated 'hm x3' text in pixelated font at multiple positions.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,451 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 629

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hm x3 text (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text in
  • light gray rectangle at bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with scattered white and gray star shapes. Four instances of the text "hm x3" appear in a pixelated font: top row (left to right), middle row (left to right), bottom row (left to right). The stars vary in size and brightness, with some appearing as solid white and others as lighter gray. A light gray rectangular shape is present at the bottom-right corner of the image.

Description

  • Black background with white and gray stars scattered across, repeated 'hm x3' text in pixelated font at multiple 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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "hm x3" stars
  • pixelated "hm x3" text
  • black background white gray stars
  • four instances of hm x3

Objects

  • stars
  • "hm x3" text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text in rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • stars
  • "hm x3" text

Visible Text

  • hm x3

Visually Supported Entities

  • "hm x3" text

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • "hm x3" text
  • pixelated font
  • four instances
  • scattered stars
  • 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
2008092416403511819435
Archive entry
2008092416403511819435.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#2008092416403511819435.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008092416403511819435.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016