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Blue text repeating 'Rock Star' with ampersands on black background, surrounded by white and gray stars, with a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right.

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Blue text repeating 'Rock Star' with ampersands on black background, surrounded by white and gray stars, with a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right.

Blue text repeating 'Rock Star' with ampersands on black background, surrounded by white and gray stars, with a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right. Animated 48×48…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal text lines
  • stars scattered throughout
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Black background with blue text repeating 'Rock Star' and ampersands across three horizontal lines. White and gray stars are scattered throughout the background. A solid gray rectangle covers the bottom-right corner. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The stars vary in size and color, with some appearing as white and others as gray. The stars are positioned both above and below the text lines. The gray rectangle is a solid color with no visible texture or pattern.

Description

Blue text repeating 'Rock Star' with ampersands on black background, surrounded by white and gray stars, with a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

  • rock star text
  • blue text black background
  • stars text
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating rock star
  • pixelated text
  • white and gray stars
  • text lines stars

Objects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • Rock Star

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue text
  • Rock Star
  • ampersands
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • three text lines
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • bottom-right corner
  • scattered stars
  • solid gray rectangle
  • repeating text
  • text lines
  • star sizes
  • star colors
  • text color
  • background color
  • text position
  • star position

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707271453401469545100
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
3bcf5623e18edb33
SHA-256
3bcf5623e18edb33f89162af017e33d3b4b42eea276719045c26aedf67a80389
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082729

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

Blue text repeating 'Rock Star' with ampersands on black background, surrounded by white and gray stars, with a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,447 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 710

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  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • gray

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  • three horizontal text lines
  • stars scattered throughout
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Black background with blue text repeating 'Rock Star' and ampersands across three horizontal lines. White and gray stars are scattered throughout the background. A solid gray rectangle covers the bottom-right corner. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The stars vary in size and color, with some appearing as white and others as gray. The stars are positioned both above and below the text lines. The gray rectangle is a solid color with no visible texture or pattern.

Description

Blue text repeating 'Rock Star' with ampersands on black background, surrounded by white and gray stars, with a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • blue text black background
  • stars text
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating rock star
  • pixelated text
  • white and gray stars
  • text lines stars

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  • stars
  • text
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repeating

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  • Rock Star

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  • ampersands
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  • gray rectangle
  • bottom-right corner
  • scattered stars
  • solid gray rectangle
  • repeating text
  • text lines
  • star sizes
  • star colors
  • text color
  • background color
  • text position
  • star position
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:29 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)
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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
200707271453401469545100
Archive entry
200707271453401469545100.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707271453401469545100.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707271453401469545100.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016