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Pixelated 'Shooting Stars' text with white stars on black background, showing animation variations in star positions and counts across frames.

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Pixelated 'Shooting Stars' text with white stars on black background, showing animation variations in star positions and counts across frames.

Pixelated 'Shooting Stars' text with white stars on black background, showing animation variations in star positions and counts across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star movement across frames
  • star count changes
  • star color variation (white to gray)
  • partial frame obscuration in final frame

Animation Summary

Star positions shift, counts change (1-4 stars per frame), some stars turn gray, and one star gains a trailing line across frames; final frame has partial right-side obscuration.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star placement variations

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated 'Shooting Stars' text in white pixelated font. White stars vary by position and count: top row has 1-3 stars per frame; middle row shows 2-4 stars with some grayed-out variants; bottom row features 2-3 stars including one star with a trailing line. Animation changes include star movement, addition, removal, and color variation (white to gray). The rightmost section of the last frame is partially obscured by a light gray rectangle.

Description

Pixelated 'Shooting Stars' text with white stars on black background, showing animation variations in star positions and counts across frames.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shooting stars text pixelated
  • star movement animation black background
  • grayed-out shooting stars icon
  • trailing star line shooting stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • Shooting Stars

Visually Supported Entities

  • stars

Wordwall

  • 'Shooting Stars' text
  • white pixelated font
  • black background
  • star symbols
  • star position variations
  • star count variations
  • grayed-out stars
  • trailing star line
  • partial frame obscuration

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080824084851184121313
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
852 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/8042b940cf0ec22e8b691a1e47b662428cf2dc3b3bb7cb5254d3e28b83c31813.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
8042b940cf0ec22e
SHA-256
8042b940cf0ec22e8b691a1e47b662428cf2dc3b3bb7cb5254d3e28b83c31813
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
1095
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082474

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated 'Shooting Stars' text with white stars on black background, showing animation variations in star positions and counts across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,242 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 728

Review tags

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  • moving (action, 0.80)
  • shooting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro gaming (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shooting
  • moving
  • appearing
  • disappearing

Animation

  • star movement across frames
  • star count changes
  • star color variation (white to gray)
  • partial frame obscuration in final frame

Animation Summary

Star positions shift, counts change (1-4 stars per frame), some stars turn gray, and one star gains a trailing line across frames; final frame has partial right-side obscuration.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star placement variations

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated 'Shooting Stars' text in white pixelated font. White stars vary by position and count: top row has 1-3 stars per frame; middle row shows 2-4 stars with some grayed-out variants; bottom row features 2-3 stars including one star with a trailing line. Animation changes include star movement, addition, removal, and color variation (white to gray). The rightmost section of the last frame is partially obscured by a light gray rectangle.

Description

Pixelated 'Shooting Stars' text with white stars on black background, showing animation variations in star positions and counts across frames.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • star movement animation black background
  • grayed-out shooting stars icon
  • trailing star line shooting stars

Objects

  • text
  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • retro-gaming

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • Shooting Stars

Visually Supported Entities

  • stars

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated font
  • black background
  • star symbols
  • star position variations
  • star count variations
  • grayed-out stars
  • trailing star line
  • partial frame obscuration
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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
20080824084851184121313
Archive entry
20080824084851184121313.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080824084851184121313.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080824084851184121313.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016