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Red background with repeated black text 'Dash' and scattered white and pink stars in a pattern

Red background with repeated black text 'Dash' and scattered white and pink stars in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars move
  • stars change position

Animation Summary

  • Stars move and change position across frames, with some stars appearing larger or more prominent than others.

Composition

  • three
  • four
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red background with three rows of four 'Dash' text elements each. Each 'Dash' text is black, bold, and sans-serif. White stars and pink stars are scattered across the background, with some stars appearing larger or more prominent than others. The stars are positioned in clusters around the text elements. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangular area partially obscuring the background.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text 'Dash' and scattered white and pink stars in a pattern

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

  • red background dash stars
  • dash text white stars
  • pink stars red background
  • gray rectangle dash stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated black text 'Dash' and scattered white and pink stars in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows

Visible Text

  • Dash

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • Dash
  • white stars
  • pink stars
  • pattern
  • three
  • four
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905121152381006092801
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/809fdc82899ba3aa7b2b72edd09ebbb91aa23afad16c1d1a84f05208773e6350.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
809fdc82899ba3aa
SHA-256
809fdc82899ba3aa7b2b72edd09ebbb91aa23afad16c1d1a84f05208773e6350
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 12:01 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000557

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:23 UTC
Run
1097
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.142872

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with repeated black text 'Dash' and scattered white and pink stars in a pattern

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,455 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 692

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars change position (other, 0.80)
  • stars move (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • stars move
  • stars change position

Animation Summary

  • Stars move and change position across frames, with some stars appearing larger or more prominent than others.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • four
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red background with three rows of four 'Dash' text elements each. Each 'Dash' text is black, bold, and sans-serif. White stars and pink stars are scattered across the background, with some stars appearing larger or more prominent than others. The stars are positioned in clusters around the text elements. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangular area partially obscuring the background.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text 'Dash' and scattered white and pink stars in a pattern

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
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background dash stars
  • dash text white stars
  • pink stars red background
  • gray rectangle dash stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Dash

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • Dash
  • white stars
  • pink stars
  • pattern
  • three
  • four
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered stars
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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
200905121152381006092801
Archive entry
200905121152381006092801.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905121152381006092801.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905121152381006092801.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016