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A cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters forming small crosses and dots, some of which animate into star-like shapes.

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A cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters forming small crosses and dots, some of which animate into star-like shapes.

A cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters forming small crosses and dots, some of which animate into star-like shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static crosses and dots transform into star-like shapes
  • scattered pixels move

Animation Summary

  • Static crosses and dots transform into star-like shapes with scattered pixels.

Composition

  • scattered
  • top
  • middle
  • bottom

Dense Caption

Cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters. Top row contains three pink pixel clusters: left is a cross, middle is a star-like shape, right is a cross. Middle row has a small cross on the left, a single dot in the center, and a small star-like shape on the right. Bottom row shows scattered pink pixels forming partial star shapes. Pixel clusters animate from static crosses and dots into star-like shapes with additional scattered pixels.

Description

  • A cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters forming small crosses and dots, some of which animate into star-like shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806212037152057657639

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink pixel clusters
  • crosses star-like shapes scattered pixels
  • static crosses animated stars
  • pixel art cyan pink

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: bottom row
  • quarantined composition: middle row
  • quarantined composition: top row

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixel clusters
  • cross shapes
  • star-like shapes
  • scattered pixels
  • static crosses
  • animated stars
  • single dot
  • partial star shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806212037152057657639
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
396 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/7911547d5ff68f5a79bbec960f2e99e272cdc7330f5291c6c18ac4acb77a9a9a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
7911547d5ff68f5a
SHA-256
7911547d5ff68f5a79bbec960f2e99e272cdc7330f5291c6c18ac4acb77a9a9a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:07 UTC
Run
1060
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077774

OpenAI category scores

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A cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters forming small crosses and dots, some of which animate into star-like shapes.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,616 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 740

Review tags

  • animate (action, 0.80)
  • scatter (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • crosses (object, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel clusters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • animate
  • scatter

Animation

  • static crosses and dots transform into star-like shapes
  • scattered pixels move

Animation Summary

  • Static crosses and dots transform into star-like shapes with scattered pixels.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • scattered
  • top
  • middle
  • bottom

Dense Caption

Cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters. Top row contains three pink pixel clusters: left is a cross, middle is a star-like shape, right is a cross. Middle row has a small cross on the left, a single dot in the center, and a small star-like shape on the right. Bottom row shows scattered pink pixels forming partial star shapes. Pixel clusters animate from static crosses and dots into star-like shapes with additional scattered pixels.

Description

  • A cyan background with scattered pink pixel clusters forming small crosses and dots, some of which animate into star-like shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806212037152057657639

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink pixel clusters
  • crosses star-like shapes scattered pixels
  • static crosses animated stars
  • pixel art cyan pink

Objects

  • crosses
  • stars
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined composition: bottom row
  • quarantined composition: middle row
  • quarantined composition: top row

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • pixel clusters

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixel clusters
  • cross shapes
  • star-like shapes
  • scattered pixels
  • static crosses
  • animated stars
  • single dot
  • partial star shapes
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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
200806212037152057657639
Archive entry
200806212037152057657639.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806212037152057657639.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806212037152057657639.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016