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Animated icon with red and yellow starburst lines on white background, displaying sequential text fragments.

Animated icon with red and yellow starburst lines on white background, displaying sequential text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'the area of happiness' to 'grow on.', 'and on.', 'forever—' while starburst lines remain static.

Composition

  • central starburst
  • text centered below starburst

Dense Caption

White background with red and yellow starburst lines radiating from center. Four text fragments appear sequentially: 'the area of happiness', 'grow on.', 'and on.', 'forever—'. Text is black with white outline in pixelated font. Starburst lines are thin, jagged, and extend outward from central point. Animation cycles through text fragments without changing background or starburst pattern.

Description

  • Animated icon with red and yellow starburst lines on white background, displaying sequential text fragments.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • starburst lines text animation
  • the area of happiness grow on
  • forever text animation
  • pixelated text animation

Visible Text

  • the area of happiness
  • grow on.
  • and on.
  • forever—

Wordwall

  • red starburst lines
  • yellow starburst lines
  • white background
  • black text with white outline
  • pixelated font
  • sequential text fragments
  • the area of happiness
  • grow on.
  • and on.
  • forever—

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080925163507476767571
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/678a3241d7b222796b35890f3ceac48eae40cedfe5fd23f9f7b4d678666e9918.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
678a3241d7b22279
SHA-256
678a3241d7b222796b35890f3ceac48eae40cedfe5fd23f9f7b4d678666e9918
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001293

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.173263

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon with red and yellow starburst lines on white background, displaying sequential text fragments.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,193 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 629

Review tags

  • text changes sequentially (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • optimistic (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • starburst lines (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes sequentially

Animation

  • text changes sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'the area of happiness' to 'grow on.', 'and on.', 'forever—' while starburst lines remain static.

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central starburst
  • text centered below starburst

Dense Caption

White background with red and yellow starburst lines radiating from center. Four text fragments appear sequentially: 'the area of happiness', 'grow on.', 'and on.', 'forever—'. Text is black with white outline in pixelated font. Starburst lines are thin, jagged, and extend outward from central point. Animation cycles through text fragments without changing background or starburst pattern.

Description

  • Animated icon with red and yellow starburst lines on white background, displaying sequential text fragments.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • optimistic
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • starburst lines text animation
  • the area of happiness grow on
  • forever text animation
  • pixelated text animation

Objects

  • starburst lines

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • the area of happiness
  • grow on.
  • and on.
  • forever—

Wordwall

  • red starburst lines
  • yellow starburst lines
  • white background
  • black text with white outline
  • pixelated font
  • sequential text fragments
  • the area of happiness
  • grow on.
  • and on.
  • forever—
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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
20080925163507476767571
Archive entry
20080925163507476767571.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080925163507476767571.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080925163507476767571.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016