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Green background with four 'EM' icons and two star symbols in different positions across frames.

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Green background with four 'EM' icons and two star symbols in different positions across frames.

Green background with four 'EM' icons and two star symbols in different positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star alternates between light gray and bright green states

Animation Summary

  • Star alternates between light gray and bright green states across frames.

Composition

  • four quadrants with two stars in lower-left area

Dense Caption

Four identical black 'EM' text elements on a bright green background. Two distinct star symbols appear: one light gray star positioned below the top-left 'EM', and one bright green star positioned below the bottom-left 'EM'. The stars alternate visibility between frames, with the light gray star visible in the upper frame set and the bright green star visible in the lower frame set.

Description

  • Green background with four 'EM' icons and two star symbols in different positions across frames.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200910131317491226175281

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background em stars
  • em text star animation
  • light gray star bright green star

Visible Text

  • EM

Wordwall

  • green background
  • 'EM' text
  • light gray star
  • bright green star
  • star alternation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910131317491226175281
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3dca60180160806a5c01a75da557bd832810abf9aa9928da8fba04ad3450f0cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
3dca60180160806a
SHA-256
3dca60180160806a5c01a75da557bd832810abf9aa9928da8fba04ad3450f0cf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085626

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with four 'EM' icons and two star symbols in different positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,826 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 606

Review tags

  • star visibility changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text em (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star visibility changes

Animation

  • star alternates between light gray and bright green states

Animation Summary

  • Star alternates between light gray and bright green states across frames.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants with two stars in lower-left area

Dense Caption

Four identical black 'EM' text elements on a bright green background. Two distinct star symbols appear: one light gray star positioned below the top-left 'EM', and one bright green star positioned below the bottom-left 'EM'. The stars alternate visibility between frames, with the light gray star visible in the upper frame set and the bright green star visible in the lower frame set.

Description

  • Green background with four 'EM' icons and two star symbols in different positions across frames.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200910131317491226175281

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background em stars
  • em text star animation
  • light gray star bright green star

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text 'EM'
  • stars

Visible Text

  • EM

Wordwall

  • green background
  • 'EM' text
  • light gray star
  • bright green star
  • star alternation
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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
200910131317491226175281
Archive entry
200910131317491226175281.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910131317491226175281.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910131317491226175281.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016