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A static image with a bright pink background filled with white stars and scattered cyan text fragments.

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A static image with a bright pink background filled with white stars and scattered cyan text fragments.

A static image with a bright pink background filled with white stars and scattered cyan text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • uniform star distribution
  • text scattered across frame

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. White five-pointed stars of varying sizes distributed across the entire frame, some overlapping. Cyan pixelated text fragments reading 'ste' appear in multiple locations: top-center, top-right, middle-left, and right side. Stars are static; no visible motion or animation changes. Text fragments remain consistent across all observations.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background filled with white stars and scattered cyan text fragments.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white stars cyan text
  • white five-pointed stars pink
  • cyan text ste fragments
  • pixelated static star pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical content.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only; no pixel evidence supports any claims from this field.

Visible Text

  • ste

Visually Supported Entities

  • text fragments reading 'ste'

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • 'ste' fragments
  • five-pointed stars
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080805170122432445001
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42c74e64ca0d1efdd860e52a7468e2f53292fc8737c22d743d9f6e6e47c26d65.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
42c74e64ca0d1efd
SHA-256
42c74e64ca0d1efdd860e52a7468e2f53292fc8737c22d743d9f6e6e47c26d65
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 22, 2026 at 06:17 UTC
Run
1322
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103115

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with a bright pink background filled with white stars and scattered cyan text fragments.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,425 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 587

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text fragments (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • uniform star distribution
  • text scattered across frame

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. White five-pointed stars of varying sizes distributed across the entire frame, some overlapping. Cyan pixelated text fragments reading 'ste' appear in multiple locations: top-center, top-right, middle-left, and right side. Stars are static; no visible motion or animation changes. Text fragments remain consistent across all observations.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background filled with white stars and scattered cyan text fragments.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white stars cyan text
  • white five-pointed stars pink
  • cyan text ste fragments
  • pixelated static star pattern

Objects

  • stars
  • text fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical content.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only; no pixel evidence supports any claims from this field.

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • stars
  • text fragments

Visible Text

  • ste

Visually Supported Entities

  • text fragments reading 'ste'

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • 'ste' fragments
  • five-pointed stars
  • pixelated text
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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
20080805170122432445001
Archive entry
20080805170122432445001.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080805170122432445001.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080805170122432445001.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016