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Black background with white star shapes and red text reading 'shadow' in two , all elements static across observations

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation; all elements static across observations.

Composition

  • stars arranged around text
  • symmetrical layout
  • multiple star sizes

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Two horizontal rows display the word 'shadow' in bold red lowercase letters; each row has two instances of this text. Stars are positioned above, between, and below these text rows. All visual elements remain unchanged across all chronological observations. No motion or animation is visible in any frame.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and red text reading 'shadow' in two , all elements static across observations

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
  • 20080225174243486329768

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white stars black background red shadow text
  • five-pointed stars 'shadow' text
  • black background white star red text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white star shapes and red text reading 'shadow' in two rows, all elements static across observations.
  • quarantined wordwall: two 'shadow' rows
  • quarantined composition: stars arranged around text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: five-pointed stars 'shadow' text rows

Visible Text

  • shadow

Wordwall

  • white stars
  • black background
  • red text
  • five-pointed stars
  • 'shadow' text
  • two 'shadow'
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080225174243486329768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
5a5c51d872220be5
SHA-256
5a5c51d872220be544f219bdebb254f1ed4089ff79d81c4e4575cc02b60989c2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127599

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white star shapes and red text reading 'shadow' in two , all elements static across observations

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:00 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,721 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 551

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation; all elements static across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • stars arranged around text
  • symmetrical layout
  • multiple star sizes

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Two horizontal rows display the word 'shadow' in bold red lowercase letters; each row has two instances of this text. Stars are positioned above, between, and below these text rows. All visual elements remain unchanged across all chronological observations. No motion or animation is visible in any frame.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and red text reading 'shadow' in two , all elements static across observations

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
  • 20080225174243486329768

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white stars black background red shadow text
  • five-pointed stars 'shadow' text
  • black background white star red text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: two 'shadow' rows
  • quarantined composition: stars arranged around text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: five-pointed stars 'shadow' text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-and-symbols

Visible Text

  • shadow

Wordwall

  • white stars
  • black background
  • red text
  • five-pointed stars
  • 'shadow' text
  • two 'shadow'
  • static image
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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
20080225174243486329768
Archive entry
20080225174243486329768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080225174243486329768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080225174243486329768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016