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Yellow text and star symbols on a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Yellow text and star symbols on a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Yellow text and star symbols on a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • star arrangements
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of yellow text reading "*Catch The Star" with varying star symbol arrangements. The background is black. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. Stars appear in yellow and dark gray, positioned around and within the text grid. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The stars are scattered in different configurations across the grid cells.

Description

  • Yellow text and star symbols on a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • *Catch The Star text
  • yellow star symbols
  • black background
  • gray rectangle corner
  • pixelated text
  • star arrangements
  • text
  • yellow and dark gray stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: text grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: black background grid

Visible Text

  • *Catch The Star
  • The Star
  • Catch
  • *Catch
  • *Catch The

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • star symbols
  • pixelated font
  • text
  • star arrangements
  • yellow stars
  • dark gray stars
  • scattered stars
  • text: *Catch The Star
  • text: The Star
  • text: Catch
  • text: The
  • text: Star
  • text: *Catch
  • text: *Catch The

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080301203232773833663
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
841 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3aefb5292bce284dfbf648166229ab20bb74a03aececb485d48c9f935579283f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
3aefb5292bce284d
SHA-256
3aefb5292bce284dfbf648166229ab20bb74a03aececb485d48c9f935579283f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090544

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow text and star symbols on a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,550 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 716

Review tags

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  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray
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Composition

  • text
  • star arrangements
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of yellow text reading "*Catch The Star" with varying star symbol arrangements. The background is black. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. Stars appear in yellow and dark gray, positioned around and within the text grid. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The stars are scattered in different configurations across the grid cells.

Description

  • Yellow text and star symbols on a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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

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  • black background
  • gray rectangle corner
  • pixelated text
  • star arrangements
  • text
  • yellow and dark gray stars

Objects

  • stars

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  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • star symbols
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  • dark gray stars
  • scattered stars
  • text: *Catch The Star
  • text: The Star
  • text: Catch
  • text: The
  • text: Star
  • text: *Catch
  • text: *Catch The
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:34 UTC
Run
56
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)
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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
20080301203232773833663
Archive entry
20080301203232773833663.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080301203232773833663.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080301203232773833663.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016