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Black background with repeated 'BAM.COM' text and scattered cyan stars in various positions across the frame.

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Black background with repeated 'BAM.COM' text and scattered cyan stars in various positions across the frame.

Black background with repeated 'BAM.COM' text and scattered cyan stars in various positions across the frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift positions across observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across observations while text remains static.

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • scattered star arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with multiple instances of the text 'BAM.COM' rendered in white pixelated font. Scattered throughout are small star shapes in two shades: bright cyan and dark blue. The stars appear to shift position between frames, creating an animated effect where their arrangement changes across observations while maintaining consistent color scheme and text placement.

Description

  • Black background with repeated 'BAM.COM' text and scattered cyan stars in various positions across the frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807111201391872071022

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BAM.COM cyan stars
  • animated star movement black background
  • pixel art BAM.COM animation
  • cyan and dark blue stars

Visible Text

  • BAM.COM

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white 'BAM.COM' text
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • pixelated font
  • animated star movement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807111201391872071022
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
832 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7a943b315992059f954ff46f5da4890be868190155783b61255c5b879cbc9625.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
7a943b315992059f
SHA-256
7a943b315992059f954ff46f5da4890be868190155783b61255c5b879cbc9625
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1066
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089884

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with repeated 'BAM.COM' text and scattered cyan stars in various positions across the frame.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,637 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,126, response 675

Review tags

  • stars move between positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • stars shift positions across observations (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move between positions

Animation

  • stars shift positions across observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across observations while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan
  • dark blue

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • scattered star arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with multiple instances of the text 'BAM.COM' rendered in white pixelated font. Scattered throughout are small star shapes in two shades: bright cyan and dark blue. The stars appear to shift position between frames, creating an animated effect where their arrangement changes across observations while maintaining consistent color scheme and text placement.

Description

  • Black background with repeated 'BAM.COM' text and scattered cyan stars in various positions across the frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807111201391872071022

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BAM.COM cyan stars
  • animated star movement black background
  • pixel art BAM.COM animation
  • cyan and dark blue stars

Objects

  • star shapes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation

Visible Text

  • BAM.COM

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white 'BAM.COM' text
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • pixelated font
  • animated star movement
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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
200807111201391872071022
Archive entry
200807111201391872071022.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#200807111201391872071022.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807111201391872071022.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016