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Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a pattern

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Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a pattern

Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars alternate between solid and grayed states

Animation Summary

  • Stars alternate between solid white and grayed states across the while text remains static

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with six identical grid positions displaying pink text "I LOVE shopping" in pixelated font. Each text block is surrounded by white star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines; some stars are solid white, others are grayed-out. The stars alternate between solid and grayed states across the grid. Text is rendered in uppercase with "I LOVE" above "shopping". All elements are arranged in a 2x3 grid layout.

Description

  • Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a pattern

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708301403441795050353
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text I LOVE shopping
  • star icons dotted lines
  • black background pixel art
  • animation
  • I LOVE shopping text
  • solid and grayed stars
  • retro pixel font
  • text-based animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars alternate between solid white and grayed states across the grid while text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 arrangement
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x3 grid animation

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • I LOVE shopping

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • I LOVE shopping
  • pixelated font
  • white star icons
  • dotted lines
  • solid white stars
  • grayed-out stars
  • arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708301403441795050353
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
610 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/4385a047461802ed57b02c6405cddde12e44c68d2f87637d6c909b6b30602143.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
4385a047461802ed
SHA-256
4385a047461802ed57b02c6405cddde12e44c68d2f87637d6c909b6b30602143
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000477

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,141 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,172, response 734

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • dotted lines (object, 0.80)
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  • retro (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars alternate between solid and grayed states

Animation

  • stars alternate between solid and grayed states

Animation Summary

  • Stars alternate between solid white and grayed states across the while text remains static

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with six identical grid positions displaying pink text "I LOVE shopping" in pixelated font. Each text block is surrounded by white star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines; some stars are solid white, others are grayed-out. The stars alternate between solid and grayed states across the grid. Text is rendered in uppercase with "I LOVE" above "shopping". All elements are arranged in a 2x3 grid layout.

Description

  • Black background with repeated pink text "I LOVE shopping" and white star-shaped icons with dotted lines, arranged in a pattern

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708301403441795050353
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

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  • star icons dotted lines
  • black background pixel art
  • animation
  • I LOVE shopping text
  • solid and grayed stars
  • retro pixel font
  • text-based animation

Objects

  • dotted lines

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 arrangement
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x3 grid animation

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  • pixel art
  • retro
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • star icons

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  • I LOVE shopping

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • I LOVE shopping
  • pixelated font
  • white star icons
  • dotted lines
  • solid white stars
  • grayed-out stars
  • arrangement
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:40 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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
200708301403441795050353
Archive entry
200708301403441795050353.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708301403441795050353.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708301403441795050353.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016