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Yellow star symbols and text 'star' on a black background with scattered smaller stars, some of which change position across frames.

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Yellow star symbols and text 'star' on a black background with scattered smaller stars, some of which change position across frames.

Yellow star symbols and text 'star' on a black background with scattered smaller stars, some of which change position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position between observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position between observations.

Composition

  • four of text with stars above each
  • scattered stars around edges
  • gray rectangle at bottom-right corner in one frame

Dense Caption

Black background contains yellow pixelated text 'star' repeated four times in horizontal rows. Each row has three small yellow stars positioned above the text; these stars shift slightly between observations. Additional small yellow and brownish-gray stars are scattered around the edges. A gray rectangular shape appears at bottom-right corner of one frame.

Description

  • Yellow star symbols and text 'star' on a black background with scattered smaller stars, some of which change 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802250903201019287516

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star text black background
  • star symbols scattered stars
  • pixelated yellow stars black
  • text star small stars gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four rows of text with stars above each row

Visible Text

  • star

Wordwall

  • yellow star symbols
  • text 'star'
  • black background
  • smaller stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802250903201019287516
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
792 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/7734b1f47557ec9b33ed86e9781b0d31ef7eccb3fbbc792aea4d6b92c63fce2e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
7734b1f47557ec9b
SHA-256
7734b1f47557ec9b33ed86e9781b0d31ef7eccb3fbbc792aea4d6b92c63fce2e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1047
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107768

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow star symbols and text 'star' on a black background with scattered smaller stars, some of which change position across frames.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:47 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,474 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 628

Review tags

  • stars shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brownish gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • text star (object, 0.80)
  • stars shift position between observations (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position

Animation

  • stars shift position between observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position between observations.

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • gray
  • brownish-gray

Composition

  • four of text with stars above each
  • scattered stars around edges
  • gray rectangle at bottom-right corner in one frame

Dense Caption

Black background contains yellow pixelated text 'star' repeated four times in horizontal rows. Each row has three small yellow stars positioned above the text; these stars shift slightly between observations. Additional small yellow and brownish-gray stars are scattered around the edges. A gray rectangular shape appears at bottom-right corner of one frame.

Description

  • Yellow star symbols and text 'star' on a black background with scattered smaller stars, some of which change 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802250903201019287516

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star text black background
  • star symbols scattered stars
  • pixelated yellow stars black
  • text star small stars gray rectangle

Objects

  • text 'star'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four rows of text with stars above each row

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • star

Wordwall

  • yellow star symbols
  • text 'star'
  • black background
  • smaller stars
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
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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
200802250903201019287516
Archive entry
200802250903201019287516.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802250903201019287516.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802250903201019287516.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016