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Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown displaying blue pixelated text

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Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown displaying blue pixelated text

Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown displaying blue pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • starbursts pulse/flicker across frames

Animation Summary

  • Starbursts pulse and flicker on left side while right remains static with text

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left starbursts right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows multiple bright white and light blue starbursts with radiating lines against a dark, blurred background. Right side features solid brown rectangular panel with blue pixelated text reading 'Whatevah!' in lowercase letters. Starbursts appear to pulse or flicker across frames while the right panel remains static.

Description

  • Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown displaying blue pixelated text

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
  • 200710181406471196560219

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • starburst animation brown
  • pixelated text Whatevah!
  • pulsing white light blue background
  • split screen starbursts text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown panel displaying blue pixelated text.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Starbursts pulse and flicker on left side while right panel remains static with text.
  • quarantined wordwall: static panel
  • quarantined wordwall: brown panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: left starbursts right text panel
  • quarantined retrieval: starburst animation brown panel

Visible Text

  • Whatevah!

Wordwall

  • starbursts
  • white light
  • blue radiating lines
  • dark background
  • brown
  • pixelated text
  • pulsing animation
  • static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710181406471196560219
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/446197a9d0859e6ae59349373fd7c0fbe95b269871a559237c5ed70753629a59.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
446197a9d0859e6a
SHA-256
446197a9d0859e6ae59349373fd7c0fbe95b269871a559237c5ed70753629a59
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
0.093034

OpenAI category scores

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Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown displaying blue pixelated text

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:56 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,364 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 651

Review tags

  • flickering (action, 0.80)
  • pulsing (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • starbursts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pulsing
  • flickering

Animation

  • starbursts pulse/flicker across frames

Animation Summary

  • Starbursts pulse and flicker on left side while right remains static with text

Colors

  • white
  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • brown
  • blue

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left starbursts right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows multiple bright white and light blue starbursts with radiating lines against a dark, blurred background. Right side features solid brown rectangular panel with blue pixelated text reading 'Whatevah!' in lowercase letters. Starbursts appear to pulse or flicker across frames while the right panel remains static.

Description

  • Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown displaying blue pixelated text

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
  • 200710181406471196560219

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • starburst animation brown
  • pixelated text Whatevah!
  • pulsing white light blue background
  • split screen starbursts text

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Animated starburst effect on dark background with brown panel displaying blue pixelated text.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Starbursts pulse and flicker on left side while right panel remains static with text.
  • quarantined wordwall: static panel
  • quarantined wordwall: brown panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: left starbursts right text panel
  • quarantined retrieval: starburst animation brown panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • starbursts

Visible Text

  • Whatevah!

Wordwall

  • starbursts
  • white light
  • blue radiating lines
  • dark background
  • brown
  • pixelated text
  • pulsing animation
  • static
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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
200710181406471196560219
Archive entry
200710181406471196560219.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710181406471196560219.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710181406471196560219.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016