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A static image with a cyan background featuring scattered black and teal stars of varying sizes, with a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner.

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A static image with a cyan background featuring scattered black and teal stars of varying sizes, with a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner.

A static image with a cyan background featuring scattered black and teal stars of varying sizes, with a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • cyan background

Dense Caption

The image displays a cyan background with scattered stars: some are solid black, others are teal. Star sizes vary, with some appearing as small dots. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom right corner. No text or additional elements are visible. The stars are distributed across the cyan field without apparent pattern or movement.

Description

A static image with a cyan background featuring scattered black and teal stars of varying sizes, with a gray rectangular shape 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

  • cyan background stars
  • black and teal stars
  • gray rectangle cyan
  • scattered stars cyan
  • static star image
  • teal and black stars
  • cyan star background
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black stars
  • teal stars
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered stars
  • varying star sizes
  • small star dots
  • no text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081125124202578276549
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
724 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/6411663e88213c7162e34dcf9fdc038ea097ce5921a259f0d2e48e9de7d5679f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
6411663e88213c71
SHA-256
6411663e88213c7162e34dcf9fdc038ea097ce5921a259f0d2e48e9de7d5679f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094259

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a cyan background featuring scattered black and teal stars of varying sizes, with a gray rectangular shape in the bottom right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,916 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • teal
  • gray

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • cyan background

Dense Caption

The image displays a cyan background with scattered stars: some are solid black, others are teal. Star sizes vary, with some appearing as small dots. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom right corner. No text or additional elements are visible. The stars are distributed across the cyan field without apparent pattern or movement.

Description

A static image with a cyan background featuring scattered black and teal stars of varying sizes, with a gray rectangular shape 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

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background stars
  • black and teal stars
  • gray rectangle cyan
  • scattered stars cyan
  • static star image
  • teal and black stars
  • cyan star background
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Objects

  • stars
  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist
  • static

Subjects

  • stars
  • gray rectangle

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black stars
  • teal stars
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered stars
  • varying star sizes
  • small star dots
  • no text
  • 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
20081125124202578276549
Archive entry
20081125124202578276549.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#20081125124202578276549.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081125124202578276549.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016