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Red background with scattered yellow stars, some displaying faint pixelated text fragments.

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Red background with scattered yellow stars, some displaying faint pixelated text fragments.

Red background with scattered yellow stars, some displaying faint pixelated text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • solid red background
  • star distribution across frame

Dense Caption

Solid red background filled with multiple five-pointed yellow stars of varying sizes. Stars are distributed across the frame without a strict pattern. Some stars contain faint, partially obscured pixelated text fragments: 'ELITE CHEE', 'LIF', and 'EE'. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Red background with scattered yellow stars, some displaying faint pixelated 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805141921571296612351

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow stars
  • scattered five-pointed stars
  • pixelated text fragments red star background
  • yellow stars red background pixelated

Uncertain Text

  • ELITE CHEE
  • LIF
  • EE

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow stars
  • five-pointed stars
  • scattered star distribution
  • faint text fragments
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805141921571296612351
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71ba349b532e049f9a0b261e0e3bf103fa842bb4539159f59e77c0d51ad52ed9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
71ba349b532e049f
SHA-256
71ba349b532e049f9a0b261e0e3bf103fa842bb4539159f59e77c0d51ad52ed9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079228

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with scattered yellow stars, some displaying faint pixelated text fragments.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,678 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 604

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow

Composition

  • solid red background
  • star distribution across frame

Dense Caption

Solid red background filled with multiple five-pointed yellow stars of varying sizes. Stars are distributed across the frame without a strict pattern. Some stars contain faint, partially obscured pixelated text fragments: 'ELITE CHEE', 'LIF', and 'EE'. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Red background with scattered yellow stars, some displaying faint pixelated 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805141921571296612351

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow stars
  • scattered five-pointed stars
  • pixelated text fragments red star background
  • yellow stars red background pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • stars

Uncertain Text

  • ELITE CHEE
  • LIF
  • EE

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow stars
  • five-pointed stars
  • scattered star distribution
  • faint text fragments
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200805141921571296612351
Archive entry
200805141921571296612351.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805141921571296612351.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805141921571296612351.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016