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Blue background with yellow star shapes and white text reading "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in pixelated font.

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Blue background with yellow star shapes and white text reading "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in pixelated font.

Blue background with yellow star shapes and white text reading "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text blocks

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered yellow star shapes of varying sizes. Four identical text blocks display "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in white pixelated font, arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text block has "Sparkle" on the first line, "like" on the second line, and "STARS!!!" on the third line. The stars are distributed across the background with some larger and some smaller.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow star shapes and white text reading "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in pixelated font.

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

  • blue star text
  • sparkle like stars
  • pixelated text stars
  • text
  • exclamation mark text
  • yellow stars blue background
  • text blocks stars
  • retro text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • Sparkle like STARS!!!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow stars
  • white pixelated text
  • STARS!!!
  • Sparkle like
  • scattered stars
  • text blocks
  • three-line text
  • exclamation marks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708291115191252051821
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
641 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/3614a516b34de1d4572e84b56067594511e1f7ada1056f9271ec6326b954280c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
3614a516b34de1d4
SHA-256
3614a516b34de1d4572e84b56067594511e1f7ada1056f9271ec6326b954280c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122869

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with yellow star shapes and white text reading "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,039 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 704

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text blocks

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered yellow star shapes of varying sizes. Four identical text blocks display "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in white pixelated font, arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text block has "Sparkle" on the first line, "like" on the second line, and "STARS!!!" on the third line. The stars are distributed across the background with some larger and some smaller.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow star shapes and white text reading "Sparkle like STARS!!!" in pixelated font.

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

  • cheerful
  • playful

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  • blue star text
  • sparkle like stars
  • pixelated text stars
  • text
  • exclamation mark text
  • yellow stars blue background
  • text blocks stars
  • retro text stars

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  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Sparkle like STARS!!!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow stars
  • white pixelated text
  • STARS!!!
  • Sparkle like
  • scattered stars
  • text blocks
  • three-line text
  • exclamation marks
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:32 UTC
Run
52
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
200708291115191252051821
Archive entry
200708291115191252051821.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708291115191252051821.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708291115191252051821.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016