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Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

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Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position across frames.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star distribution

Dense Caption

Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text in a grid pattern; cyan and dark blue stars scattered across the background, varying in position and quantity across frames; stars appear to shift slightly between frames; no other visual elements present.

Description

  • Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

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

  • hiley text stars
  • cyan dark blue stars
  • black background
  • star movement animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: black background grid

Visible Text

  • hiley

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white 'hiley' text
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • pattern
  • star movement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807150815491371709831
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/388585fc9fb50f4cf02f94146b0f56ff84c02faae017bc7d7bbd2622bc427eec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
388585fc9fb50f4c
SHA-256
388585fc9fb50f4cf02f94146b0f56ff84c02faae017bc7d7bbd2622bc427eec
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091864

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,930 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 557

Review tags

  • stars shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position

Animation

  • stars shift position

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position across frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan
  • dark blue

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star distribution

Dense Caption

Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text in a grid pattern; cyan and dark blue stars scattered across the background, varying in position and quantity across frames; stars appear to shift slightly between frames; no other visual elements present.

Description

  • Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

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

  • hiley text stars
  • cyan dark blue stars
  • black background
  • star movement animation

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with repeated white 'hiley' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: black background grid

Style

  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • hiley

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white 'hiley' text
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • pattern
  • star movement
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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
200807150815491371709831
Archive entry
200807150815491371709831.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807150815491371709831.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807150815491371709831.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016