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Pixelated green and black icon with two star shapes and repeated text 'lowl's' on green and black backgrounds.

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Pixelated green and black icon with two star shapes and repeated text 'lowl's' on green and black backgrounds.

Pixelated green and black icon with two star shapes and repeated text 'lowl's' on green and black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star shape changes from green to black

Animation Summary

  • The icon shows two star shapes changing color: a green star in the top-left black section and a black star in the bottom-left green section.

Composition

  • split background
  • centered stars
  • text on green background

Dense Caption

The icon features a split background with black on the top-left and green on the bottom-left and right sections. A bright green star shape appears in the top-left black section, while a black star shape appears in the bottom-left green section. The text 'lowl's' is displayed in black pixelated font on the green background in the bottom-left and right sections. The star shapes are simple, five-pointed, and positioned near the center of their respective background sections. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated green and black icon with two star shapes and repeated text 'lowl's' on green and black backgrounds.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green star black star
  • lowl's text pixel art
  • split background star icon
  • green black star text

Visible Text

  • lowl's

Wordwall

  • green star
  • black star
  • lowl's text
  • split background
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution art
  • five-pointed stars
  • green and black colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911011647471052249073
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
470 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/79b1b51c1b33ae21233ed375c9cb21a1e844da4630182f5721f2bdbd9f92b4fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
79b1b51c1b33ae21
SHA-256
79b1b51c1b33ae21233ed375c9cb21a1e844da4630182f5721f2bdbd9f92b4fa
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 21:29 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016136

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
1062
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.161934

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green and black icon with two star shapes and repeated text 'lowl's' on green and black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,925 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 699

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • star shape changes from green to black (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star shapes (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star shape changes from green to black

Animation Summary

  • The icon shows two star shapes changing color: a green star in the top-left black section and a black star in the bottom-left green section.

Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • split background
  • centered stars
  • text on green background

Dense Caption

The icon features a split background with black on the top-left and green on the bottom-left and right sections. A bright green star shape appears in the top-left black section, while a black star shape appears in the bottom-left green section. The text 'lowl's' is displayed in black pixelated font on the green background in the bottom-left and right sections. The star shapes are simple, five-pointed, and positioned near the center of their respective background sections. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated green and black icon with two star shapes and repeated text 'lowl's' on green and black backgrounds.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green star black star
  • lowl's text pixel art
  • split background star icon
  • green black star text

Objects

  • star shapes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • star shapes

Visible Text

  • lowl's

Wordwall

  • green star
  • black star
  • lowl's text
  • split background
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution art
  • five-pointed stars
  • green and black colors
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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
200911011647471052249073
Archive entry
200911011647471052249073.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911011647471052249073.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911011647471052249073.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016