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Pixelated pink background with white and light purple star icons, each surrounded by dotted lines, and repeated 'starz' text in pixel font.

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Pixelated pink background with white and light purple star icons, each surrounded by dotted lines, and repeated 'starz' text in pixel font.

Pixelated pink background with white and light purple star icons, each surrounded by dotted lines, and repeated 'starz' text in pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

Bright magenta-pink solid background. Sixteen identical star-shaped icons arranged in a grid: eight are white stars with four white dots trailing left and down; eight are light pink stars with four light purple dots trailing left and down. Three rows of five 'starz' text labels (white pixel font) appear between the icon rows, each label reading 'starz'. All elements maintain consistent spacing across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white and light purple star icons, each surrounded by dotted lines, and repeated 'starz' text in pixel 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta pink star icons
  • starz text pixel art
  • dotted line stars
  • retro digital icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: dotted line stars grid

Visible Text

  • starz

Visually Supported Entities

  • starz (text)

Wordwall

  • magenta-pink background
  • white star icons
  • light pink star icons
  • 'starz' text
  • dotted lines trailing stars
  • pixelated style
  • arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807081916001660103765
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
560 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72826d1465cd6ee0563e94e04b20cbe706a6025f311483c9bcbd110b6e01870f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
72826d1465cd6ee0
SHA-256
72826d1465cd6ee0563e94e04b20cbe706a6025f311483c9bcbd110b6e01870f
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 05:07 UTC
Run
1171
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000544

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077484

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink background with white and light purple star icons, each surrounded by dotted lines, and repeated 'starz' text in pixel font.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 606

Review tags

  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • magenta pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text labels (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • magenta-pink
  • white
  • light purple

Composition

  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

Bright magenta-pink solid background. Sixteen identical star-shaped icons arranged in a grid: eight are white stars with four white dots trailing left and down; eight are light pink stars with four light purple dots trailing left and down. Three rows of five 'starz' text labels (white pixel font) appear between the icon rows, each label reading 'starz'. All elements maintain consistent spacing across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white and light purple star icons, each surrounded by dotted lines, and repeated 'starz' text in pixel 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta pink star icons
  • starz text pixel art
  • dotted line stars
  • retro digital icon

Objects

  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: dotted line stars grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stars
  • text labels

Visible Text

  • starz

Visually Supported Entities

  • starz (text)

Wordwall

  • magenta-pink background
  • white star icons
  • light pink star icons
  • 'starz' text
  • dotted lines trailing stars
  • pixelated style
  • arrangement
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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
200807081916001660103765
Archive entry
200807081916001660103765.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807081916001660103765.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807081916001660103765.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016