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White pixelated symbols on black background: four distinct star-like shapes with varying line counts and dot clusters, some showing animation effects.

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White pixelated symbols on black background: four distinct star-like shapes with varying line counts and dot clusters, some showing animation effects.

White pixelated symbols on black background: four distinct star-like shapes with varying line counts and dot clusters, some showing animation effects. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • dots scatter from clusters
  • dot density changes in lower section

Animation Summary

  • Dots scatter from clusters in lower section while top icons remain static.

Composition

  • top of three icons
  • bottom-left plus sign
  • center-bottom dot cluster
  • lower scattered dots

Dense Caption

Black background contains white pixel art. Top row has three star-like icons: leftmost is a 4-line cross (+), middle is an 8-line asterisk (*), rightmost is a small X. Bottom-left shows a single plus sign (+). Center-bottom has one dot (•) and a cluster of four dots (••••). Lower section contains scattered white dots forming partial circular patterns with varying density.

Description

White pixelated symbols on black background: four distinct star-like shapes with varying line counts and dot clusters, some showing animation effects.

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
  • 201108220553431464869157

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixel art black background
  • star-like shapes plus signs dots
  • dots scatter animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row of three icons

Wordwall

  • white pixel art
  • black background
  • 4-line cross
  • 8-line asterisk
  • small X
  • single plus sign
  • one dot
  • four-dot cluster
  • scattered dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201108220553431464869157
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
396 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4ca8102f739dff95715ffe1ae31e4d8718a6d0eac6db2dcb366a9725735109c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
4ca8102f739dff95
SHA-256
4ca8102f739dff95715ffe1ae31e4d8718a6d0eac6db2dcb366a9725735109c3
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 13:23 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001181

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.349970

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White pixelated symbols on black background: four distinct star-like shapes with varying line counts and dot clusters, some showing animation effects.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:39 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,951 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 656

Review tags

  • dot clusters form (action, 0.80)
  • dots scatter (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • star like shapes (object, 0.80)
  • dot density changes in lower section (other, 0.80)
  • dots scatter from clusters (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • dots scatter
  • dot clusters form

Animation

  • dots scatter from clusters
  • dot density changes in lower section

Animation Summary

  • Dots scatter from clusters in lower section while top icons remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top of three icons
  • bottom-left plus sign
  • center-bottom dot cluster
  • lower scattered dots

Dense Caption

Black background contains white pixel art. Top row has three star-like icons: leftmost is a 4-line cross (+), middle is an 8-line asterisk (*), rightmost is a small X. Bottom-left shows a single plus sign (+). Center-bottom has one dot (•) and a cluster of four dots (••••). Lower section contains scattered white dots forming partial circular patterns with varying density.

Description

White pixelated symbols on black background: four distinct star-like shapes with varying line counts and dot clusters, some showing animation effects.

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
  • 201108220553431464869157

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixel art black background
  • star-like shapes plus signs dots
  • dots scatter animation

Objects

  • star-like shapes
  • plus signs
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row of three icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • monochrome

Wordwall

  • white pixel art
  • black background
  • 4-line cross
  • 8-line asterisk
  • small X
  • single plus sign
  • one dot
  • four-dot cluster
  • scattered dots
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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
201108220553431464869157
Archive entry
201108220553431464869157.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201108220553431464869157.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201108220553431464869157.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016