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Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a , surrounded by yellow and blue stars

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Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a , surrounded by yellow and blue stars

Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a , surrounded by yellow and blue stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change

Animation Summary

  • Yellow and blue stars move to different positions across frames while the text and background remain static.

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a grid pattern. Yellow and blue stars are scattered across the background. The stars vary in position across frames: yellow stars appear in different locations, including top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, and bottom-right. Some stars are partially obscured by the text. The bottom-right corner has a gray rectangular area. The text remains consistent across all frames.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a , surrounded by yellow and blue stars

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 background white text stars
  • pixel art text stars
  • reach 4 the stars
  • star positions vary
  • text stars
  • blue yellow stars
  • gray rectangle stars
  • pixelated text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a grid, surrounded by yellow and blue stars.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid stars

Visible Text

  • *reach* *4* *the* *stars*

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • *reach* *4* *the* *stars*
  • yellow stars
  • blue stars
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • star positions vary
  • text consistent
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708262144571356506016
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
893 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c9347040ff4c94fc6cdd1bab1de6e233be72b3e52a5efa0642fed2c0d111aa3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
3c9347040ff4c94f
SHA-256
3c9347040ff4c94fc6cdd1bab1de6e233be72b3e52a5efa0642fed2c0d111aa3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095909

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a , surrounded by yellow and blue stars

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,647 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,119, response 742

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move

Animation

  • star positions change

Animation Summary

  • Yellow and blue stars move to different positions across frames while the text and background remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a grid pattern. Yellow and blue stars are scattered across the background. The stars vary in position across frames: yellow stars appear in different locations, including top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, and bottom-right. Some stars are partially obscured by the text. The bottom-right corner has a gray rectangular area. The text remains consistent across all frames.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text reading "*reach* *4* *the* *stars*" repeated in a , surrounded by yellow and blue stars

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

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  • pixel art text stars
  • reach 4 the stars
  • star positions vary
  • text stars
  • blue yellow stars
  • gray rectangle stars
  • pixelated text stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid stars

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  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • *reach* *4* *the* *stars*

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  • white pixelated text
  • *reach* *4* *the* *stars*
  • yellow stars
  • blue stars
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • star positions vary
  • text consistent
  • scattered stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:15 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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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
200708262144571356506016
Archive entry
200708262144571356506016.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708262144571356506016.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708262144571356506016.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016