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Static image with repeating text and star pattern on black background, featuring 'Niagara' and 'Gymnast' in white pixelated font.

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Static image with repeating text and star pattern on black background, featuring 'Niagara' and 'Gymnast' in white pixelated font.

Static image with repeating text and star pattern on black background, featuring 'Niagara' and 'Gymnast' in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • star background
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background filled with repeating light blue star pattern. Three rows of text: top row 'Niagara' repeated three times, middle row 'Gymnast' repeated three times, bottom row 'Niagara' repeated twice and 'Gymnast' repeated twice. All text in white pixelated font. Right side has solid gray rectangular area. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Static image with repeating text and star pattern on black background, featuring 'Niagara' and 'Gymnast' in white 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Niagara Gymnast star pattern
  • white text black background
  • light blue stars gray rectangle
  • repeating text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating text rows

Visible Text

  • Niagara
  • Gymnast

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light blue stars
  • white pixelated text
  • Niagara repeated
  • Gymnast repeated
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating text
  • star pattern
  • static image
  • text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091129135636891094916
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/8186a001a9ddf57a9fe3ec1518ce59715263288156a654d72f532df12444aaef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
8186a001a9ddf57a
SHA-256
8186a001a9ddf57a9fe3ec1518ce59715263288156a654d72f532df12444aaef
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
1101
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086267

OpenAI category scores

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Static image with repeating text and star pattern on black background, featuring 'Niagara' and 'Gymnast' in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,420 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text
  • star background
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background filled with repeating light blue star pattern. Three rows of text: top row 'Niagara' repeated three times, middle row 'Gymnast' repeated three times, bottom row 'Niagara' repeated twice and 'Gymnast' repeated twice. All text in white pixelated font. Right side has solid gray rectangular area. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Static image with repeating text and star pattern on black background, featuring 'Niagara' and 'Gymnast' in white 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Niagara Gymnast star pattern
  • white text black background
  • light blue stars gray rectangle
  • repeating text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Niagara
  • Gymnast

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light blue stars
  • white pixelated text
  • Niagara repeated
  • Gymnast repeated
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating text
  • star pattern
  • static image
  • text
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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
20091129135636891094916
Archive entry
20091129135636891094916.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091129135636891094916.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091129135636891094916.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016