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Pixelated icon with 'cross' text, multiple star shapes in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green, and scattered light dots on white background.

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Pixelated icon with 'cross' text, multiple star shapes in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green, and scattered light dots on white background.

Pixelated icon with 'cross' text, multiple star shapes in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green, and scattered light dots on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text at top
  • stars scattered
  • light dots scattered

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon features 'cross' text in green and pink pixels at top-left, 'oss' text in pink pixels at top-center, and 'sid' text in pink and purple pixels at top-right. Central area contains a large yellow star with white outline, surrounded by smaller stars: orange star (bottom-left), pink star (right-center), red star (bottom-left corner), pink star (right), purple star (bottom-right), and small pink star (right). Scattered light dots in green, blue, and yellow appear near stars and text. All elements on solid white background.

Description

Pixelated icon with 'cross' text, multiple star shapes in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green, and scattered light dots on white background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070806094305273653003
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070806094305273653003

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cross oss sid text stars
  • yellow star orange star pink star
  • green pink purple yellow orange red stars
  • text stars light dots white background
  • pixelated stars text
  • cross oss sid
  • stars scattered text
  • light dots stars text

Visible Text

  • cross
  • oss
  • sid

Wordwall

  • green 'cross' text
  • pink 'oss' text
  • pink/purple 'sid' text
  • yellow star
  • orange star
  • pink star
  • red star
  • purple star
  • light dots
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806094305273653003
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/68477e36f09614457ee23372ede505a611a3b82940c0dae8be0f2e340bc79ad0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
68477e36f0961445
SHA-256
68477e36f09614457ee23372ede505a611a3b82940c0dae8be0f2e340bc79ad0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.076101

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with 'cross' text, multiple star shapes in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green, and scattered light dots on white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,896 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 816

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • light dots (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • pink
  • purple
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • light yellow

Composition

  • text at top
  • stars scattered
  • light dots scattered

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon features 'cross' text in green and pink pixels at top-left, 'oss' text in pink pixels at top-center, and 'sid' text in pink and purple pixels at top-right. Central area contains a large yellow star with white outline, surrounded by smaller stars: orange star (bottom-left), pink star (right-center), red star (bottom-left corner), pink star (right), purple star (bottom-right), and small pink star (right). Scattered light dots in green, blue, and yellow appear near stars and text. All elements on solid white background.

Description

Pixelated icon with 'cross' text, multiple star shapes in yellow, orange, pink, purple, and green, and scattered light dots on white background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070806094305273653003
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070806094305273653003

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow star orange star pink star
  • green pink purple yellow orange red stars
  • text stars light dots white background
  • pixelated stars text
  • cross oss sid
  • stars scattered text
  • light dots stars text

Objects

  • stars
  • text
  • light dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • cross
  • oss
  • sid

Wordwall

  • green 'cross' text
  • pink 'oss' text
  • pink/purple 'sid' text
  • yellow star
  • orange star
  • pink star
  • red star
  • purple star
  • light dots
  • white background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:33 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070806094305273653003
Archive entry
20070806094305273653003.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806094305273653003.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806094305273653003.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016