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Black background with repeated pink 'shorts' text and scattered white/grey stars, one grey rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Black background with repeated pink 'shorts' text and scattered white/grey stars, one grey rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Black background with repeated pink 'shorts' text and scattered white/grey stars, one grey rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change between frames
  • text remains static

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position between while text remains static

Composition

  • four horizontal of text
  • stars scattered across background
  • bottom-right corner contains solid grey rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains four rows of light purple pixelated 'shorts' text; each row has four instances. White and grey star icons are scattered across the image: top-left has two white stars, middle sections have mixed white/grey stars, and bottom-right has a solid grey rectangle replacing part of the fourth row's rightmost text. Stars appear to shift position between rows while 'shorts' text remains static.

Description

  • Black background with repeated pink 'shorts' text and scattered white/grey stars, one grey rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20090326150608752247951

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background shorts stars
  • pixelated shorts repeated four times
  • white grey stars scattered
  • solid grey rectangle bottom right

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift position between rows while text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined wordwall: 'shorts' repeated four times per row
  • quarantined actions: stars shift position between rows
  • quarantined composition: four horizontal rows of text

Visible Text

  • shorts

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light purple pixelated text
  • 'shorts' repeated four times per
  • white star icons
  • grey star icons
  • four of text
  • scattered stars
  • solid grey rectangle in bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090326150608752247951
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/46/4630d608ad4c60a5735b4663604cc8bc405f0b50a2c3061010b662a6a49bd1bf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
4630d608ad4c60a5
SHA-256
4630d608ad4c60a5735b4663604cc8bc405f0b50a2c3061010b662a6a49bd1bf
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 21, 2026 at 02:47 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000044

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 02:56 UTC
Run
1258
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000704

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.325287

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with repeated pink 'shorts' text and scattered white/grey stars, one grey rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,850 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 708

Review tags

  • stars shift position between (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • grey (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grey star icons (object, 0.80)
  • solid grey rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • white star icons (object, 0.80)
  • star positions change between frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position between

Animation

  • star positions change between frames
  • text remains static

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position between while text remains static

Colors

  • black
  • light purple
  • white
  • grey

Composition

  • four horizontal of text
  • stars scattered across background
  • bottom-right corner contains solid grey rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains four rows of light purple pixelated 'shorts' text; each row has four instances. White and grey star icons are scattered across the image: top-left has two white stars, middle sections have mixed white/grey stars, and bottom-right has a solid grey rectangle replacing part of the fourth row's rightmost text. Stars appear to shift position between rows while 'shorts' text remains static.

Description

  • Black background with repeated pink 'shorts' text and scattered white/grey stars, one grey rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20090326150608752247951

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background shorts stars
  • pixelated shorts repeated four times
  • white grey stars scattered
  • solid grey rectangle bottom right

Objects

  • white star icons
  • grey star icons
  • solid grey rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars shift position between rows while text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined wordwall: 'shorts' repeated four times per row
  • quarantined actions: stars shift position between rows
  • quarantined composition: four horizontal rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive text layout

Visible Text

  • shorts

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light purple pixelated text
  • 'shorts' repeated four times per
  • white star icons
  • grey star icons
  • four of text
  • scattered stars
  • solid grey rectangle in bottom-right
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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
20090326150608752247951
Archive entry
20090326150608752247951.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090326150608752247951.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090326150608752247951.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016