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The band text repeated three times per on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

The band text repeated three times per on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 1: solid plus signs
  • frame 2: four-pointed stars with trailing dots
  • frame 3: X-shaped crosses and scattered dots

Animation Summary

Text remains static while pink star-like symbols animate : solid plus signs → four-pointed stars with trailing dots → X-shaped crosses and scattered dots

Composition

  • text repeated six times
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Black background displays 'the band.' in white pixelated font, repeated six times in a 3x2 grid layout. Pink star-like symbols appear below each 'the band.' instance: first frame shows solid plus signs, second frame shows four-pointed stars with trailing dots, third frame shows X-shaped crosses and scattered dots. Text remains static while symbols animate across three sequential frames.

Description

  • The band text repeated three times per on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

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
  • 20081122091155338128970

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the band text animation
  • pink star symbol change
  • black background pixel art
  • text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: The band text repeated three times per row on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while pink star-like symbols animate across three frames: solid plus signs → four-pointed stars with trailing dots → X-shaped crosses and scattered dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three-frame animation
  • quarantined composition: 3x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x2 grid text layout

Visible Text

  • the band.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'the band.' repeated six times
  • pink star-like symbols
  • animation
  • solid plus signs (frame 1)
  • four-pointed stars with dots (frame 2)
  • X-shaped crosses and scattered dots (frame 3)

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081122091155338128970
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
720 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5bcd43478c497533e73347949ce5a720e5800e5f4b542e41e2b4c647cd99b430.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
5bcd43478c497533
SHA-256
5bcd43478c497533e73347949ce5a720e5800e5f4b542e41e2b4c647cd99b430
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105695

OpenAI category scores

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The band text repeated three times per on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,255 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 734

Review tags

  • star like symbols change shape (action, 0.80)
  • symbols animate (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pink star like symbols (object, 0.80)
  • frame 1 solid plus signs (other, 0.80)
  • frame 2 four pointed stars with trailing dots (other, 0.80)
  • frame 3 x shaped crosses and scattered dots (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols animate
  • star-like symbols change shape

Animation

  • frame 1: solid plus signs
  • frame 2: four-pointed stars with trailing dots
  • frame 3: X-shaped crosses and scattered dots

Animation Summary

Text remains static while pink star-like symbols animate : solid plus signs → four-pointed stars with trailing dots → X-shaped crosses and scattered dots

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • text repeated six times
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Black background displays 'the band.' in white pixelated font, repeated six times in a 3x2 grid layout. Pink star-like symbols appear below each 'the band.' instance: first frame shows solid plus signs, second frame shows four-pointed stars with trailing dots, third frame shows X-shaped crosses and scattered dots. Text remains static while symbols animate across three sequential frames.

Description

  • The band text repeated three times per on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

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
  • 20081122091155338128970

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the band text animation
  • pink star symbol change
  • black background pixel art
  • text layout

Objects

  • pink star-like symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: The band text repeated three times per row on black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while pink star-like symbols animate across three frames: solid plus signs → four-pointed stars with trailing dots → X-shaped crosses and scattered dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three-frame animation
  • quarantined composition: 3x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x2 grid text layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • the band.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'the band.' repeated six times
  • pink star-like symbols
  • animation
  • solid plus signs (frame 1)
  • four-pointed stars with dots (frame 2)
  • X-shaped crosses and scattered dots (frame 3)
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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
20081122091155338128970
Archive entry
20081122091155338128970.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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

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