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cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay

cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • uniform
  • symmetrical
  • evenly spaced
  • partial crop

Dense Caption

The image displays a uniform grid of cyan star-shaped icons arranged in rows and columns on a solid black background. Each star icon has a consistent size and shape, with four points and a small central square. The grid is partially cropped at the bottom-right corner, revealing a solid gray rectangular area beneath the black background. The stars are evenly spaced with no visible gaps between adjacent icons. The overall composition is repetitive and symmetrical across the visible portion of the grid.

Description

  • cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay

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

  • cyan star
  • black background star icons
  • gray corner star pattern
  • repetitive cyan stars
  • uniform star
  • symmetrical star pattern
  • evenly spaced star icons
  • star icons with central square

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static grid of cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: uniform grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: uniform grid
  • quarantined retrieval: uniform star grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan star grid

Subjects

  • star icons

Wordwall

  • cyan star icons
  • black background
  • gray corner overlay
  • uniform
  • evenly spaced
  • repetitive pattern
  • symmetrical composition
  • solid gray rectangle
  • four-pointed stars
  • central square detail

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810011805251260231514
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42ca4a700d15f18481d7eb988740a3cdc3b2e10d7ac013ec6decaddc5e21d73e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
42ca4a700d15f184
SHA-256
42ca4a700d15f18481d7eb988740a3cdc3b2e10d7ac013ec6decaddc5e21d73e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070663

OpenAI category scores

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cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,501 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 663

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • star icons (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • uniform
  • symmetrical
  • evenly spaced
  • partial crop

Dense Caption

The image displays a uniform grid of cyan star-shaped icons arranged in rows and columns on a solid black background. Each star icon has a consistent size and shape, with four points and a small central square. The grid is partially cropped at the bottom-right corner, revealing a solid gray rectangular area beneath the black background. The stars are evenly spaced with no visible gaps between adjacent icons. The overall composition is repetitive and symmetrical across the visible portion of the grid.

Description

  • cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay

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

  • cyan star
  • black background star icons
  • gray corner star pattern
  • repetitive cyan stars
  • uniform star
  • symmetrical star pattern
  • evenly spaced star icons
  • star icons with central square

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static grid of cyan star-shaped icons on a black background with a gray corner overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: uniform grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: uniform grid
  • quarantined retrieval: uniform star grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan star grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • based

Subjects

  • star icons

Wordwall

  • cyan star icons
  • black background
  • gray corner overlay
  • uniform
  • evenly spaced
  • repetitive pattern
  • symmetrical composition
  • solid gray rectangle
  • four-pointed stars
  • central square detail
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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
200810011805251260231514
Archive entry
200810011805251260231514.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810011805251260231514.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810011805251260231514.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016