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Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text reading 'Shooting' and 'Stars' in pixelated font.

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Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text reading 'Shooting' and 'Stars' in pixelated font.

Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text reading 'Shooting' and 'Stars' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text repeated in four locations

Dense Caption

Blue background with multiple yellow five-pointed stars of varying sizes and brightness. White pixelated text 'Shooting' appears in four locations and 'Stars' appears in four locations. Stars are scattered across the background with some appearing blurred or faded. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital style. No visible motion or animation changes are present in the static image.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text reading 'Shooting' and 'Stars' in pixelated font.

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

  • blue background yellow stars
  • Shooting Stars pixelated text
  • four Shooting four Stars
  • scattered stars pixel font

Visible Text

  • Shooting
  • Stars

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow stars
  • white text
  • Shooting
  • Stars
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • blurred stars
  • four 'Shooting' instances
  • four 'Stars' instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806204732419720990
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7c/7cb3253329010111999cc66612249507f72465d1b5a317a83e4549242e7043ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
7cb3253329010111
SHA-256
7cb3253329010111999cc66612249507f72465d1b5a317a83e4549242e7043ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:14 UTC
Run
1078
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078428

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text reading 'Shooting' and 'Stars' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,611 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 627

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • text repeated in four locations

Dense Caption

Blue background with multiple yellow five-pointed stars of varying sizes and brightness. White pixelated text 'Shooting' appears in four locations and 'Stars' appears in four locations. Stars are scattered across the background with some appearing blurred or faded. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital style. No visible motion or animation changes are present in the static image.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text reading 'Shooting' and 'Stars' in pixelated font.

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

  • blue background yellow stars
  • Shooting Stars pixelated text
  • four Shooting four Stars
  • scattered stars pixel font

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • Shooting
  • Stars

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow stars
  • white text
  • Shooting
  • Stars
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • blurred stars
  • four 'Shooting' instances
  • four 'Stars' instances
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:39 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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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
20070806204732419720990
Archive entry
20070806204732419720990.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806204732419720990.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806204732419720990.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016