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Black background with scattered pink stars and four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font.

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Black background with scattered pink stars and four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font.

Black background with scattered pink stars and four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text distributed across background

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered pink stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font appear in the image. The stars are distributed across the background, with some stars overlapping the text. The text 'LOU!' is consistently styled with an exclamation mark. The overall composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with scattered pink stars and four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font.

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

  • pink stars black background
  • LOU! text pixelated
  • scattered stars text
  • light gray text black background
  • four LOU! instances
  • exclamation mark stars
  • pixelated font stars
  • black background pink stars LOU!

Visible Text

  • LOU!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink stars
  • scattered stars
  • light gray text
  • LOU! text
  • pixelated font
  • exclamation mark
  • star shapes
  • text overlaps stars
  • four text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090408191812695904772
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/7151036cac4d185e47a0aed696efed1e617f2ac47c88afc176fc0bab9c60c204.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
7151036cac4d185e
SHA-256
7151036cac4d185e47a0aed696efed1e617f2ac47c88afc176fc0bab9c60c204
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095063

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with scattered pink stars and four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,407 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 605

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • lighthearted (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • light gray

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text distributed across background

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered pink stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font appear in the image. The stars are distributed across the background, with some stars overlapping the text. The text 'LOU!' is consistently styled with an exclamation mark. The overall composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with scattered pink stars and four instances of the text 'LOU!' in light gray pixelated font.

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

  • playful
  • lighthearted

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink stars black background
  • LOU! text pixelated
  • scattered stars text
  • light gray text black background
  • four LOU! instances
  • exclamation mark stars
  • pixelated font stars
  • black background pink stars LOU!

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • LOU!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink stars
  • scattered stars
  • light gray text
  • LOU! text
  • pixelated font
  • exclamation mark
  • star shapes
  • text overlaps stars
  • four text instances
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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
20090408191812695904772
Archive entry
20090408191812695904772.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090408191812695904772.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090408191812695904772.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016