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Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a -like layout

Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a -like layout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • repeating
  • structured
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a grid-like layout. White stars with gray dots above and below them appear in multiple positions. Gray stars with white dots above and below them appear in multiple positions. White dots form vertical lines above and below the stars. Gray dots form vertical lines above and below the stars. The patterns repeat across the image in a structured arrangement.

Description

  • Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a -like layout

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars gray stars
  • pixelated star dot
  • repeating star dot patterns
  • white gray dot lines
  • structured pixel art
  • minimalist
  • abstract star dot composition
  • symmetrical dot star arrangement

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a grid-like layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: minimalist grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated star dot grid

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • white dots
  • gray dots
  • vertical dot lines
  • pixelated patterns
  • repeating arrangement
  • structured composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707251852521244580061
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
529 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75f780f4d7e28f7f854f9abd8902dbfe44ddca6fb3436253f37dfa45db7cd5fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
75f780f4d7e28f7f
SHA-256
75f780f4d7e28f7f854f9abd8902dbfe44ddca6fb3436253f37dfa45db7cd5fe
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 09:46 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000011

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 18:41 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001212

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
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1043
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.234797

OpenAI category scores

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

Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a -like layout

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,258 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating
  • structured
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a grid-like layout. White stars with gray dots above and below them appear in multiple positions. Gray stars with white dots above and below them appear in multiple positions. White dots form vertical lines above and below the stars. Gray dots form vertical lines above and below the stars. The patterns repeat across the image in a structured arrangement.

Description

  • Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a -like layout

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars gray stars
  • pixelated star dot
  • repeating star dot patterns
  • white gray dot lines
  • structured pixel art
  • minimalist
  • abstract star dot composition
  • symmetrical dot star arrangement

Objects

  • stars
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white and gray pixelated star and dot patterns arranged in a grid-like layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: minimalist grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated star dot grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • stars
  • dots

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • white dots
  • gray dots
  • vertical dot lines
  • pixelated patterns
  • repeating arrangement
  • structured composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:15 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)
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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
200707251852521244580061
Archive entry
200707251852521244580061.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#200707251852521244580061.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707251852521244580061.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016