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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' and scattered yellow and brown stars, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' and scattered yellow and brown stars, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' and scattered yellow and brown stars, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text repeated in
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' repeated across the image. Yellow and brown stars are scattered throughout the background. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The text and stars are static across all visible frames. The image contains no additional visual elements or motion.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' and scattered yellow and brown stars, with a gray rectangle 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wishing on a wishing star text
  • pixel art stars
  • gray rectangle background
  • static text image
  • black background pixel art
  • yellow brown stars
  • wishing star text
  • pixelated text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text repeated in grid

Visible Text

  • wishing on a wishing star...

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • wishing on a wishing star...
  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • gray rectangle
  • static image
  • repeated text
  • pixel art style
  • no motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905051727551810858166
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
909 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66bbc6b44c86ce4251eada441d9d321b20307ae761480f822b7c05d8ee080e57.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
66bbc6b44c86ce42
SHA-256
66bbc6b44c86ce4251eada441d9d321b20307ae761480f822b7c05d8ee080e57
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076260

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' and scattered yellow and brown stars, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,545 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 670

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • brown stars (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • yellow stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • text repeated in
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' repeated across the image. Yellow and brown stars are scattered throughout the background. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The text and stars are static across all visible frames. The image contains no additional visual elements or motion.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'wishing on a wishing star...' and scattered yellow and brown stars, with a gray rectangle 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • calm
  • nostalgic

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  • pixel art stars
  • gray rectangle background
  • static text image
  • black background pixel art
  • yellow brown stars
  • wishing star text
  • pixelated text stars

Objects

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  • brown stars
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text repeated in grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Visible Text

  • wishing on a wishing star...

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • wishing on a wishing star...
  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • gray rectangle
  • static image
  • repeated text
  • pixel art style
  • no motion
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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
200905051727551810858166
Archive entry
200905051727551810858166.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905051727551810858166.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905051727551810858166.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016