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Blue background with repeated white text 'John' and scattered blue stars in pixelated style.

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Blue background with repeated white text 'John' and scattered blue stars in pixelated style.

Blue background with repeated white text 'John' and scattered blue stars in pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • 12 text instances
  • star scattering
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Solid cyan background contains 12 instances of the word 'John' rendered in white, blocky, pixelated font. Each instance is positioned at regular intervals across a grid layout. Scattered throughout are small blue star shapes in varying sizes (some solid, some outlined) and opacities. A gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner. The visual style uses low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'John' and scattered blue stars in pixelated style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background john stars
  • john text blue stars pixelated
  • 12 john instances cyan
  • blue star scattered john

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; appears static despite 'animated' source hint
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 12 john instances cyan grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • John

Visually Supported Entities

  • John

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white text 'John'
  • 12 instances
  • blue stars
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711121414141805017343
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071112143321221644537
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
803 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/80d59d4aa6215996206bec2ca013d5ee415d6da0aae7f33b77ea0e5764f69d15.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC
Archive ID
80d59d4aa6215996
SHA-256
80d59d4aa6215996206bec2ca013d5ee415d6da0aae7f33b77ea0e5764f69d15
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.083712

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924594onnx/unsafe0.083712onnx/nsfw0.044831onnx/nsfl0.038881
Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with repeated white text 'John' and scattered blue stars in pixelated style.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:47 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,689 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 683

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • 12 text instances
  • star scattering
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Solid cyan background contains 12 instances of the word 'John' rendered in white, blocky, pixelated font. Each instance is positioned at regular intervals across a grid layout. Scattered throughout are small blue star shapes in varying sizes (some solid, some outlined) and opacities. A gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner. The visual style uses low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'John' and scattered blue stars in pixelated style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background john stars
  • john text blue stars pixelated
  • 12 john instances cyan
  • blue star scattered john

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; appears static despite 'animated' source hint
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 12 john instances cyan grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • John

Visually Supported Entities

  • John

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white text 'John'
  • 12 instances
  • blue stars
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution pixels
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Full source records (2)

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
200711121414141805017343
Archive entry
200711121414141805017343.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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#200711121414141805017343.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711121414141805017343.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20071112143321221644537
Archive entry
20071112143321221644537.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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#20071112143321221644537.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071112143321221644537.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016