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Animated black background with yellow stars and white text reading "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in pixelated font.

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Animated black background with yellow stars and white text reading "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in pixelated font.

Animated black background with yellow stars and white text reading "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static content.

Composition

  • centered
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered yellow stars. White pixelated text reads "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in four vertical lines. The text and stars are static; no visible animation changes occur across observations. Stars are five-pointed, yellow, and vary in brightness. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. All elements are centered on the black background. No additional objects or subjects are present. The image is a single static asset with no motion observed.

Description

  • Animated black background with yellow stars and white text reading "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080301154021617276146
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stars black background
  • I Am A Star <3 <3 <3
  • pixelated text yellow stars
  • centered star composition
  • retro digital text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static content.

Visible Text

  • I
  • Am
  • A
  • Star
  • <3

Wordwall

  • yellow stars
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3"
  • five-pointed stars
  • blocky digital font
  • centered composition

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080301154021617276146
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/488817afc7cf6ec69ac5cafb971edd15f4e23380ffab0d516a16c2225d0df1e6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
488817afc7cf6ec6
SHA-256
488817afc7cf6ec69ac5cafb971edd15f4e23380ffab0d516a16c2225d0df1e6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079317

OpenAI category scores

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

Animated black background with yellow stars and white text reading "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,841 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static content.

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered yellow stars. White pixelated text reads "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in four vertical lines. The text and stars are static; no visible animation changes occur across observations. Stars are five-pointed, yellow, and vary in brightness. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. All elements are centered on the black background. No additional objects or subjects are present. The image is a single static asset with no motion observed.

Description

  • Animated black background with yellow stars and white text reading "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3" in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080301154021617276146
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stars black background
  • I Am A Star <3 <3 <3
  • pixelated text yellow stars
  • centered star composition
  • retro digital text

Objects

  • yellow stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static content.

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • I
  • Am
  • A
  • Star
  • <3

Wordwall

  • yellow stars
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "I Am A Star <3 <3 <3"
  • five-pointed stars
  • blocky digital font
  • centered composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080301154021617276146
Archive entry
20080301154021617276146.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080301154021617276146.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080301154021617276146.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016