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A black background displays four of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each , stars shifting position across frames

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A black background displays four of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each , stars shifting position across frames

A black background displays four of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each , stars shifting position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position across frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position across frames: top stars move left to right, middle stars shift slightly left, bottom stars move right

Composition

  • four
  • text above stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Black background with four rows of white 'Modeline' text. Each row has cyan and dark blue stars above it. Stars shift position across frames: top row stars move from left to right, middle row stars shift slightly left, bottom row stars move right. Stars are small, five-pointed, and scattered. Text is pixelated, sans-serif. Stars appear in cyan and dark blue hues. The rightmost frame shows a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • A black background displays four of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each , stars shifting position across frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090225072326304541568

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Modeline cyan stars
  • Modeline dark blue stars
  • four Modeline
  • stars shift position
  • black background Modeline
  • gray rectangle Modeline
  • pixelated Modeline text
  • scattered stars Modeline

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle partially obscures bottom-right corner
  • quarantined description: A black background displays four rows of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each row, stars shifting position across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift position across frames: top row stars move left to right, middle row stars shift slightly left, bottom row stars move right.
  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined retrieval: four rows Modeline

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • Modeline

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • Modeline
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • four
  • star movement
  • pixelated text
  • small stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
  • text
  • star positions
  • hues
  • left to right
  • slight shift
  • right shift
  • partial obscuration

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090225072326304541568
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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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
icons/3d/3d4b8c8d13519a2f37ad8f7cdc9e6eb341f0f321022a056f04e5ad921e68d4cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
3d4b8c8d13519a2f
SHA-256
3d4b8c8d13519a2f37ad8f7cdc9e6eb341f0f321022a056f04e5ad921e68d4cf
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
0.090720

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929546onnx/unsafe0.090720onnx/nsfl0.047489onnx/nsfw0.043231
Enrichment records (1)
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A black background displays four of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each , stars shifting position across frames

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,571 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 781

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)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static background (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position

Animation

  • stars shift position across frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position across frames: top stars move left to right, middle stars shift slightly left, bottom stars move right

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan
  • dark blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • text above stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Black background with four rows of white 'Modeline' text. Each row has cyan and dark blue stars above it. Stars shift position across frames: top row stars move from left to right, middle row stars shift slightly left, bottom row stars move right. Stars are small, five-pointed, and scattered. Text is pixelated, sans-serif. Stars appear in cyan and dark blue hues. The rightmost frame shows a gray rectangle partially obscuring the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • A black background displays four of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each , stars shifting position across frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090225072326304541568

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Modeline cyan stars
  • Modeline dark blue stars
  • four Modeline
  • stars shift position
  • black background Modeline
  • gray rectangle Modeline
  • pixelated Modeline text
  • scattered stars Modeline

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle partially obscures bottom-right corner
  • quarantined description: A black background displays four rows of 'Modeline' text with cyan and dark blue stars above each row, stars shifting position across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift position across frames: top row stars move left to right, middle row stars shift slightly left, bottom row stars move right.
  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined retrieval: four rows Modeline

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static background

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Modeline

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • Modeline
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • four
  • star movement
  • pixelated text
  • small stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
  • text
  • star positions
  • hues
  • left to right
  • slight shift
  • right shift
  • partial obscuration
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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
20090225072326304541568
Archive entry
20090225072326304541568.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090225072326304541568.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090225072326304541568.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016