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Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text reading W B L ROX in white pixelated font

Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text reading W B L ROX in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars on black field
  • four vertical text

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple orange five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four distinct vertical text columns display the sequence 'W', 'B', 'L', 'ROX' using a white, blocky, pixelated typeface; each column repeats this pattern across the image. The stars are scattered throughout the black field without consistent alignment or spacing.

Description

  • Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text reading W B L ROX in white 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071014181250882877499

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange stars black background white text
  • W B L ROX pixelated font
  • repeating vertical text
  • scattered star pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text columns reading W B L ROX in white pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: four vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating vertical text columns

Visible Text

  • W
  • B
  • L
  • ROX

Wordwall

  • black background
  • orange five-pointed stars
  • white pixelated text
  • W B L ROX sequence
  • vertical text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071014181250882877499
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
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b42169a3276add772a38ed96f094044c9de3f578a387c1eb1e2626e5351e7a5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
4b42169a3276add7
SHA-256
4b42169a3276add772a38ed96f094044c9de3f578a387c1eb1e2626e5351e7a5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074218

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text reading W B L ROX in white pixelated font

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:12 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,477 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • scattered stars on black field
  • four vertical text

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple orange five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four distinct vertical text columns display the sequence 'W', 'B', 'L', 'ROX' using a white, blocky, pixelated typeface; each column repeats this pattern across the image. The stars are scattered throughout the black field without consistent alignment or spacing.

Description

  • Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text reading W B L ROX in white 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071014181250882877499

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange stars black background white text
  • W B L ROX pixelated font
  • repeating vertical text
  • scattered star pattern

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered orange stars and vertical text columns reading W B L ROX in white pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: four vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • W
  • B
  • L
  • ROX

Wordwall

  • black background
  • orange five-pointed stars
  • white pixelated text
  • W B L ROX sequence
  • vertical text
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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
20071014181250882877499
Archive entry
20071014181250882877499.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#20071014181250882877499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071014181250882877499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016