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Pixelated text and star symbols on black background with two distinct star colors in alternating positions.

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Pixelated text and star symbols on black background with two distinct star colors in alternating positions.

Pixelated text and star symbols on black background with two distinct star colors in alternating positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star color alternates between cyan and teal across observations

Animation Summary

  • Star icon alternates between cyan and teal colors across observations.

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • text arranged in vertical
  • stars positioned to right of 'life' text

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated white text 'volleyball' at top and bottom, 'is' in middle, and 'life' below each 'is'. Two star icons appear: one cyan star positioned right of first 'life', another teal star positioned right of second 'life'. The stars alternate between cyan and teal across observations. All text uses blocky 8-bit style font.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols on black background with two distinct star colors in alternating 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball is life cyan star
  • volleyball is life teal star
  • 8-bit volleyball text
  • pixelated volleyball stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in vertical columns

Visible Text

  • volleyball
  • is
  • life

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080108141940344554115
  • franksicons

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • 'volleyball' repeated
  • 'is' repeated
  • 'life' repeated
  • cyan star icon
  • teal star icon
  • star alternates colors
  • blocky 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080108141940344554115
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
306 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3affdc1f4f3a2608a65cd9af79269edee36af4b3a03675af2b47cf51eb811617.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
3affdc1f4f3a2608
SHA-256
3affdc1f4f3a2608a65cd9af79269edee36af4b3a03675af2b47cf51eb811617
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.070941

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and star symbols on black background with two distinct star colors in alternating positions.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:49 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,239 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 671

Review tags

  • star color changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cyan star (object, 0.80)
  • teal star (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star color changes

Animation

  • star color alternates between cyan and teal across observations

Animation Summary

  • Star icon alternates between cyan and teal colors across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan
  • teal

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • text arranged in vertical
  • stars positioned to right of 'life' text

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated white text 'volleyball' at top and bottom, 'is' in middle, and 'life' below each 'is'. Two star icons appear: one cyan star positioned right of first 'life', another teal star positioned right of second 'life'. The stars alternate between cyan and teal across observations. All text uses blocky 8-bit style font.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star symbols on black background with two distinct star colors in alternating 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball is life cyan star
  • volleyball is life teal star
  • 8-bit volleyball text
  • pixelated volleyball stars

Objects

  • cyan star
  • teal star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • volleyball
  • is
  • life

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080108141940344554115
  • franksicons

Wordwall

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  • pixelated white text
  • 'volleyball' repeated
  • 'is' repeated
  • 'life' repeated
  • cyan star icon
  • teal star icon
  • star alternates colors
  • blocky 8-bit 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
20080108141940344554115
Archive entry
20080108141940344554115.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080108141940344554115.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080108141940344554115.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016