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Yellow pixelated text on black background with white starbursts, repeating phrases and partial words in a distorted style.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical repetition
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

The image displays yellow pixelated text on a solid black background. White starburst shapes are scattered throughout the composition. The visible text includes repeated segments: 'ch for moach for m', 'uz the woruz the w', 'thing u warhing u won', 'to do is to do is', and 'the STAre the STA'. Some letters appear distorted or partially obscured, such as 'STA' with a stylized 'A' resembling an asterisk. The text repeats vertically in multiple rows.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on black background with white starbursts, repeating phrases and partial words in a distorted style.

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
  • 20071002171658949520751

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated text black background
  • repeating phrases starbursts
  • distorted lettering vertical repetition
  • text-based animation
  • chaotic playful mood

Visible Text

  • ch for moach for m
  • uz the woruz the w
  • thing u warhing u won
  • to do is to do is
  • the STAre the STA

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • white starbursts
  • repeating phrases
  • distorted lettering
  • vertical repetition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071002171658949520751
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/65b28e25dbb3a5235e8ea3f255ea6c866a06fc8d01eb7a710a2157d5744afc0a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
65b28e25dbb3a523
SHA-256
65b28e25dbb3a5235e8ea3f255ea6c866a06fc8d01eb7a710a2157d5744afc0a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108883

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated text on black background with white starbursts, repeating phrases and partial words in a distorted style.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,418 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 667

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical repetition
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

The image displays yellow pixelated text on a solid black background. White starburst shapes are scattered throughout the composition. The visible text includes repeated segments: 'ch for moach for m', 'uz the woruz the w', 'thing u warhing u won', 'to do is to do is', and 'the STAre the STA'. Some letters appear distorted or partially obscured, such as 'STA' with a stylized 'A' resembling an asterisk. The text repeats vertically in multiple rows.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on black background with white starbursts, repeating phrases and partial words in a distorted style.

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
  • 20071002171658949520751

Mood

  • chaotic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated text black background
  • repeating phrases starbursts
  • distorted lettering vertical repetition
  • text-based animation
  • chaotic playful mood

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • distorted

Visible Text

  • ch for moach for m
  • uz the woruz the w
  • thing u warhing u won
  • to do is to do is
  • the STAre the STA

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • white starbursts
  • repeating phrases
  • distorted lettering
  • vertical repetition
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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
20071002171658949520751
Archive entry
20071002171658949520751.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20071002171658949520751.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071002171658949520751.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016