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A static image of a repeating pattern of blue stars on a bright pink background with a gray rectangular overlay in the bottom-right corner.

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A static image of a repeating pattern of blue stars on a bright pink background with a gray rectangular overlay in the bottom-right corner.

A static image of a repeating pattern of blue stars on a bright pink background with a gray rectangular overlay in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating
  • partial obscuration

Dense Caption

The image displays a uniform grid of blue stars on a bright pink background. The stars are arranged in rows and columns with consistent spacing. Some stars appear slightly faded or distorted, creating subtle variations in the pattern. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner, partially obscuring the star pattern. The overall composition is a dense, repetitive arrangement of star shapes with no visible text or additional elements.

Description

  • A static image of a repeating pattern of blue stars on a bright pink background with a gray rectangular overlay in the bottom-right corner.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue stars pink background
  • repeating star pattern
  • gray rectangle corner
  • faded stars
  • pink background blue stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: uniform grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: faded stars grid

Wordwall

  • blue stars
  • pink background
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating pattern
  • faded stars
  • solid rectangle
  • uniform
  • consistent spacing
  • bottom-right corner
  • partial obscuration

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090104095822226209308
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/60e297fd33d1bf3e3110d07f081b5a4f36d24d5c25a58180bfe6213506d1ad6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
60e297fd33d1bf3e
SHA-256
60e297fd33d1bf3e3110d07f081b5a4f36d24d5c25a58180bfe6213506d1ad6e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 03:51 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000547

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July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
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A static image of a repeating pattern of blue stars on a bright pink background with a gray rectangular overlay in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,274 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 627

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • uniform (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating
  • partial obscuration

Dense Caption

The image displays a uniform grid of blue stars on a bright pink background. The stars are arranged in rows and columns with consistent spacing. Some stars appear slightly faded or distorted, creating subtle variations in the pattern. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner, partially obscuring the star pattern. The overall composition is a dense, repetitive arrangement of star shapes with no visible text or additional elements.

Description

  • A static image of a repeating pattern of blue stars on a bright pink background with a gray rectangular overlay in the bottom-right corner.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue stars pink background
  • repeating star pattern
  • gray rectangle corner
  • faded stars
  • pink background blue stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: uniform grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: faded stars grid

Style

  • repetitive
  • uniform
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • stars

Wordwall

  • blue stars
  • pink background
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating pattern
  • faded stars
  • solid rectangle
  • uniform
  • consistent spacing
  • bottom-right corner
  • partial obscuration
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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
20090104095822226209308
Archive entry
20090104095822226209308.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090104095822226209308.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090104095822226209308.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016