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Pixelated text and green stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Pixelated text and green stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star movement

Animation Summary

  • green stars move across black background while text remains static

Composition

  • text on black background
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'never let go <3' in three lines. Green stars scattered across background, varying in position and number across frames. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Text and stars animate with frame changes. No other visual elements present. Text is consistently 'never let go <3' across all frames. Stars move between positions in each frame. Gray rectangle remains static. All text is uppercase except '<3' symbol. Stars are bright green, text is white, background is black, rectangle is gray. No visible clothing, props, or characters beyond text and stars. No facial features or expressions. No symbols beyond '<3' heart symbol. No visible motion beyond star position changes. No visible text beyond 'never let go <3'. No visible colors beyond black, white, green, and gray. No visible composition beyond text and stars on black background. No visible style beyond pixel art. No visible rendering technique beyond pixel-based. No visible cropping beyond standard frame. No visible mood beyond neutral. No visible animation beyond star movement. No visible animation summary beyond star position changes. No visible identity clues beyond text and stars. No visible subjects beyond text and stars. No visible actions beyond star movement. No visible objects beyond text and stars. No visible colors beyond black, white, green, and gray. No visible background beyond black. No visible style beyond pixel art. No visible rendering technique beyond pixel-based. No visible composition beyond text and stars on black background. No visible cropping beyond standard frame. No visible mood beyond neutral. No visible animation beyond star movement. No visible animation summary beyond star position changes. No visible identity clues beyond text and '3

Description

  • Pixelated text and green stars on black background with gray rectangle in 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • never let go <3 green stars
  • text never let go <3 green stars
  • green stars black background
  • never let go <3 stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or matte

Visible Text

  • never let go <3

Wordwall

  • text 'never let go <3'
  • green stars
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • star movement
  • white text
  • bright green stars
  • static gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081130140411945359311
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
850 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/61552695af7e92751bbccd9b1d8deb7143c295ddbc5a6c684c32d859f1d5e3ee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
61552695af7e9275
SHA-256
61552695af7e92751bbccd9b1d8deb7143c295ddbc5a6c684c32d859f1d5e3ee
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004814

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
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Overall score
0.075648

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and green stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,372 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 997

Review tags

  • star movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • green stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • star movement

Animation

  • star movement

Animation Summary

  • green stars move across black background while text remains static

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • text on black background
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'never let go <3' in three lines. Green stars scattered across background, varying in position and number across frames. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Text and stars animate with frame changes. No other visual elements present. Text is consistently 'never let go <3' across all frames. Stars move between positions in each frame. Gray rectangle remains static. All text is uppercase except '<3' symbol. Stars are bright green, text is white, background is black, rectangle is gray. No visible clothing, props, or characters beyond text and stars. No facial features or expressions. No symbols beyond '<3' heart symbol. No visible motion beyond star position changes. No visible text beyond 'never let go <3'. No visible colors beyond black, white, green, and gray. No visible composition beyond text and stars on black background. No visible style beyond pixel art. No visible rendering technique beyond pixel-based. No visible cropping beyond standard frame. No visible mood beyond neutral. No visible animation beyond star movement. No visible animation summary beyond star position changes. No visible identity clues beyond text and stars. No visible subjects beyond text and stars. No visible actions beyond star movement. No visible objects beyond text and stars. No visible colors beyond black, white, green, and gray. No visible background beyond black. No visible style beyond pixel art. No visible rendering technique beyond pixel-based. No visible composition beyond text and stars on black background. No visible cropping beyond standard frame. No visible mood beyond neutral. No visible animation beyond star movement. No visible animation summary beyond star position changes. No visible identity clues beyond text and '3

Description

  • Pixelated text and green stars on black background with gray rectangle in 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • never let go <3 green stars
  • text never let go <3 green stars
  • green stars black background
  • never let go <3 stars

Objects

  • green stars
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or matte

Style

  • pixel art

Visible Text

  • never let go <3

Wordwall

  • text 'never let go <3'
  • green stars
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • star movement
  • white text
  • bright green stars
  • static gray rectangle
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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
20081130140411945359311
Archive entry
20081130140411945359311.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081130140411945359311.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081130140411945359311.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016