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Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two , each containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS"

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Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two , each containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS"

Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two , each containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes; static image with identical layout across observations.

Composition

  • two of text groups
  • star scatter

Dense Caption

Black background features scattered white pixelated stars of varying sizes. Two identical horizontal groups appear: top group has "So" (pixelated) centered above "GLAMOROUS" (pixelated), bottom group mirrors this layout below. Text uses blocky, retro digital font with mixed capitalization; "G" and "S" are uppercase while other letters lowercase. Stars include plus signs and small dots scattered across background.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two , each containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS"

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803121529341279759697

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art stars
  • glamorous text
  • so glamorous
  • two of text
  • retro digital font
  • black background white text
  • star scatter
  • blocky pixel font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two rows, each row containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS".
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text groups
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows of text

Visible Text

  • So
  • GLAMOROUS

Wordwall

  • white pixelated stars
  • black background
  • two identical text groups
  • "So" above "GLAMOROUS"
  • blocky digital font
  • mixed case text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803121529341279759697
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
601 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88952e68278d7e01203524a98118d53597d027e616412260c944dae09895e9fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
88952e68278d7e01
SHA-256
88952e68278d7e01203524a98118d53597d027e616412260c944dae09895e9fc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071897

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two , each containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS"

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,333 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes; static image with identical layout across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two of text groups
  • star scatter

Dense Caption

Black background features scattered white pixelated stars of varying sizes. Two identical horizontal groups appear: top group has "So" (pixelated) centered above "GLAMOROUS" (pixelated), bottom group mirrors this layout below. Text uses blocky, retro digital font with mixed capitalization; "G" and "S" are uppercase while other letters lowercase. Stars include plus signs and small dots scattered across background.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two , each containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS"

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803121529341279759697

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art stars
  • glamorous text
  • so glamorous
  • two of text
  • retro digital font
  • black background white text
  • star scatter
  • blocky pixel font

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text and star shapes arranged in two rows, each row containing "So" above "GLAMOROUS".
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text groups
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows of text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • So
  • GLAMOROUS

Wordwall

  • white pixelated stars
  • black background
  • two identical text groups
  • "So" above "GLAMOROUS"
  • blocky digital font
  • mixed case 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
200803121529341279759697
Archive entry
200803121529341279759697.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803121529341279759697.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803121529341279759697.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016