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Blue background with white stars and repeated blue text reading "SHOOTING STARS!" in pixelated font.

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Blue background with white stars and repeated blue text reading "SHOOTING STARS!" in pixelated font.

Blue background with white stars and repeated blue text reading "SHOOTING STARS!" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background with multiple white five-pointed stars scattered across it. Four instances of the text "SHOOTING STARS!" appear in a blue pixelated font, positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. The stars are static and do not exhibit motion. The text is consistently displayed in the same location across all visible frames. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette of cyan, white, and blue.

Description

  • Blue background with white stars and repeated blue text reading "SHOOTING 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

  • cyan background shooting stars
  • white stars blue text
  • pixelated shooting stars
  • four shooting stars text
  • retro digital shooting stars
  • static stars cyan background
  • blue text shooting stars
  • shooting stars pixel font

Visible Text

  • SHOOTING STARS!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white stars
  • blue text
  • pixelated font
  • SHOOTING STARS!
  • four text instances
  • static stars
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709012204331585761813
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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/7e/7e7c1c9f862046919086c2d4d3543c96d0b8c292e707d700c8ea25cb105fc45f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
7e7c1c9f86204691
SHA-256
7e7c1c9f862046919086c2d4d3543c96d0b8c292e707d700c8ea25cb105fc45f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1087
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120138

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue background with white stars and repeated blue text reading "SHOOTING STARS!" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,151 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 694

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • four text instances
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background with multiple white five-pointed stars scattered across it. Four instances of the text "SHOOTING STARS!" appear in a blue pixelated font, positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. The stars are static and do not exhibit motion. The text is consistently displayed in the same location across all visible frames. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette of cyan, white, and blue.

Description

  • Blue background with white stars and repeated blue text reading "SHOOTING 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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background shooting stars
  • white stars blue text
  • pixelated shooting stars
  • four shooting stars text
  • retro digital shooting stars
  • static stars cyan background
  • blue text shooting stars
  • shooting stars pixel font

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • SHOOTING STARS!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white stars
  • blue text
  • pixelated font
  • SHOOTING STARS!
  • four text instances
  • static stars
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:55 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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
200709012204331585761813
Archive entry
200709012204331585761813.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709012204331585761813.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709012204331585761813.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016