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Green star shapes and cyan text repeat across a black background in a static pattern.

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Green star shapes and cyan text repeat across a black background in a static pattern.

Green star shapes and cyan text repeat across a black background in a static pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal bands
  • scattered stars
  • text repetition

Dense Caption

Green star shapes are scattered across a black background. Cyan text repeats in horizontal bands: "BANDGEEKBANDGEEK" appears in the top and bottom bands, "IS MY FAV. IS MY FAV." appears in the middle bands, and "IOT ALECS IOT ALECS" appears in the lower middle bands. The text and stars maintain consistent positions across all visible frames.

Description

  • Green star shapes and cyan text repeat across a black background in a static 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green stars cyan text black background
  • BANDGEEKBANDGEEK IS MY FAV IOT ALECS
  • repeating text green stars
  • static pixelated text
  • cyan text green stars black background
  • BANDGEEKBANDGEEK IS MY FAV
  • IOT ALECS
  • repeating pattern cyan text

Visible Text

  • BANDGEEKBANDGEEK
  • IS MY FAV.
  • IOT ALECS

Wordwall

  • green stars
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • repeating text
  • BANDGEEKBANDGEEK
  • IS MY FAV
  • IOT ALECS
  • static image
  • repeating pattern
  • pixelated text
  • pixelated stars
  • horizontal bands
  • no animation
  • text repetition
  • star shapes
  • black backdrop
  • cyan lettering
  • green star shapes
  • repeating bands
  • text bands
  • BANDGEEK
  • IS MY FAV.
  • pixelated
  • static
  • no motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070810000130910691538
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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/47/47fece924e790f3210511828663ce9a78d88f932dd5c2d2c911a2fb729aaf193.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
47fece924e790f32
SHA-256
47fece924e790f3210511828663ce9a78d88f932dd5c2d2c911a2fb729aaf193
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069814

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Green star shapes and cyan text repeat across a black background in a static pattern.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,095 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 808

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal bands
  • scattered stars
  • text repetition

Dense Caption

Green star shapes are scattered across a black background. Cyan text repeats in horizontal bands: "BANDGEEKBANDGEEK" appears in the top and bottom bands, "IS MY FAV. IS MY FAV." appears in the middle bands, and "IOT ALECS IOT ALECS" appears in the lower middle bands. The text and stars maintain consistent positions across all visible frames.

Description

  • Green star shapes and cyan text repeat across a black background in a static 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

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  • static pixelated text
  • cyan text green stars black background
  • BANDGEEKBANDGEEK IS MY FAV
  • IOT ALECS
  • repeating pattern cyan text

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  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • static

Subjects

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  • text

Visible Text

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  • IS MY FAV.
  • IOT ALECS

Wordwall

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  • pixelated stars
  • horizontal bands
  • no animation
  • text repetition
  • star shapes
  • black backdrop
  • cyan lettering
  • green star shapes
  • repeating bands
  • text bands
  • BANDGEEK
  • IS MY FAV.
  • pixelated
  • static
  • no motion
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:05 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070810000130910691538
Archive entry
20070810000130910691538.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070810000130910691538.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070810000130910691538.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016