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Yellow background with orange star shapes and black text reading "i'm a star!" in pixelated font.

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Yellow background with orange star shapes and black text reading "i'm a star!" in pixelated font.

Yellow background with orange star shapes and black text reading "i'm a star!" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text placements
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Yellow background with orange star shapes in various sizes and positions. Black text in pixelated font reads "i'm a star!" in four distinct placements across the image. The text appears in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas. Orange stars are scattered throughout the background, some larger and more prominent than others. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Yellow background with orange star shapes and black text reading "i'm a star!" 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background orange stars
  • i'm a star pixel art
  • retro digital text
  • scattered stars yellow background

Visible Text

  • i'm a star!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • orange stars
  • black text
  • i'm a star!
  • pixelated font
  • four text placements
  • star shapes
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708012023551725178556
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/488c227977aa44cbe904b741bf12c111b6820cd11f8dd3df9da938fdefc5a9f5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
488c227977aa44cb
SHA-256
488c227977aa44cbe904b741bf12c111b6820cd11f8dd3df9da938fdefc5a9f5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.076653

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow background with orange star shapes and black text reading "i'm a star!" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,099 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • black

Composition

  • four text placements
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Yellow background with orange star shapes in various sizes and positions. Black text in pixelated font reads "i'm a star!" in four distinct placements across the image. The text appears in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas. Orange stars are scattered throughout the background, some larger and more prominent than others. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Yellow background with orange star shapes and black text reading "i'm a star!" 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

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background orange stars
  • i'm a star pixel art
  • retro digital text
  • scattered stars yellow background

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • i'm a star!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • orange stars
  • black text
  • i'm a star!
  • pixelated font
  • four text placements
  • star shapes
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • scattered stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
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v5
Elapsed
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Error
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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
200708012023551725178556
Archive entry
200708012023551725178556.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708012023551725178556.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708012023551725178556.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016