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A static image with a bright blue background covered in white stars, featuring repeated black text reading "Bright Star" across the center.

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A static image with a bright blue background covered in white stars, featuring repeated black text reading "Bright Star" across the center.

A static image with a bright blue background covered in white stars, featuring repeated black text reading "Bright Star" across the center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • star background
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image displays a bright blue background filled with a repeating pattern of white five-pointed stars. Overlaid on the star pattern are three horizontal rows of black text reading "Bright Star" in a pixelated font. The text appears to be repeated across the image, with the word "Bright" followed by "Star" in each instance. The image has a static composition with no visible animation or movement. A gray rectangular area is present in the bottom-right corner, partially obscuring the star pattern and text. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image with a bright blue background covered in white stars, featuring repeated black text reading "Bright Star" across the center.

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

  • bright blue star background
  • bright star text
  • pixelated bright star
  • repeating bright star text
  • gray rectangle bright blue stars
  • bright blue stars bright star
  • bright star pixelated text
  • bright blue star gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Visible Text

  • Bright Star

Wordwall

  • bright blue background
  • white five-pointed stars
  • repeating star pattern
  • black text
  • "Bright Star" repeated
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • static composition
  • retro digital graphics
  • bottom-right corner

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708171319282129176996
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d82fcde14d00ee539b97c3338b8a25921bb557b8d6b58bf94b8992825e2a098.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
6d82fcde14d00ee5
SHA-256
6d82fcde14d00ee539b97c3338b8a25921bb557b8d6b58bf94b8992825e2a098
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082826

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a bright blue background covered in white stars, featuring repeated black text reading "Bright Star" across the center.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,210 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 711

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • star background
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image displays a bright blue background filled with a repeating pattern of white five-pointed stars. Overlaid on the star pattern are three horizontal rows of black text reading "Bright Star" in a pixelated font. The text appears to be repeated across the image, with the word "Bright" followed by "Star" in each instance. The image has a static composition with no visible animation or movement. A gray rectangular area is present in the bottom-right corner, partially obscuring the star pattern and text. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image with a bright blue background covered in white stars, featuring repeated black text reading "Bright Star" across the center.

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

  • bright blue star background
  • bright star text
  • pixelated bright star
  • repeating bright star text
  • gray rectangle bright blue stars
  • bright blue stars bright star
  • bright star pixelated text
  • bright blue star gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • Bright Star

Wordwall

  • bright blue background
  • white five-pointed stars
  • repeating star pattern
  • black text
  • "Bright Star" repeated
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • static composition
  • retro digital graphics
  • bottom-right corner
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:59 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708171319282129176996
Archive entry
200708171319282129176996.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708171319282129176996.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708171319282129176996.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016