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A black background displays a repeating pattern of pink text characters and cyan stars, with the stars shifting position across frames.

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A black background displays a repeating pattern of pink text characters and cyan stars, with the stars shifting position across frames.

A black background displays a repeating pattern of pink text characters and cyan stars, with the stars shifting position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars move to new positions between frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across frames while text characters remain static.

Composition

  • vertical
  • stars distributed across pattern

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background with a repeating pattern of pink text characters 'f', 'a', 'm', 'i', 'o', 't', 'r', 'h', 'o' arranged in vertical columns. Cyan stars (★) appear in multiple positions across the pattern, with their placement changing between frames. The stars shift from left to right and top to bottom across the sequence. A gray rectangular area is visible in the bottom-right corner. The text characters remain static while the stars animate. The animation consists of the stars moving to new positions in each frame, creating a subtle motion effect.

Description

  • A black background displays a repeating pattern of pink text characters and cyan stars, with the stars shifting position across frames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text cyan stars animation
  • black background text stars
  • repeating pattern stars shift
  • gray rectangle text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns

Visible Text

  • f
  • a
  • m
  • i
  • o
  • t
  • r
  • h

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text characters
  • cyan stars
  • repeating pattern
  • stars shift positions
  • gray rectangle bottom-right
  • text characters static
  • stars animate
  • vertical
  • frame-by-frame animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909031519231202241012
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
879 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71ca47d0fd2ea713b70d4c7534d89462ff29a98d05bd7ded4fd096c2f9b9cabe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
71ca47d0fd2ea713
SHA-256
71ca47d0fd2ea713b70d4c7534d89462ff29a98d05bd7ded4fd096c2f9b9cabe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.113451

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A black background displays a repeating pattern of pink text characters and cyan stars, with the stars shifting position across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,816 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 725

Review tags

  • stars shift positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift positions

Animation

  • stars move to new positions between frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across frames while text characters remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • cyan
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical
  • stars distributed across pattern

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background with a repeating pattern of pink text characters 'f', 'a', 'm', 'i', 'o', 't', 'r', 'h', 'o' arranged in vertical columns. Cyan stars (★) appear in multiple positions across the pattern, with their placement changing between frames. The stars shift from left to right and top to bottom across the sequence. A gray rectangular area is visible in the bottom-right corner. The text characters remain static while the stars animate. The animation consists of the stars moving to new positions in each frame, creating a subtle motion effect.

Description

  • A black background displays a repeating pattern of pink text characters and cyan stars, with the stars shifting position across frames.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text cyan stars animation
  • black background text stars
  • repeating pattern stars shift
  • gray rectangle text stars

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • animated

Subjects

  • text characters
  • stars

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  • f
  • a
  • m
  • i
  • o
  • t
  • r
  • h

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text characters
  • cyan stars
  • repeating pattern
  • stars shift positions
  • gray rectangle bottom-right
  • text characters static
  • stars animate
  • vertical
  • frame-by-frame animation
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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
200909031519231202241012
Archive entry
200909031519231202241012.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909031519231202241012.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909031519231202241012.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016