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Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' and yellow star icons with dotted trails.

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Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' and yellow star icons with dotted trails.

Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' and yellow star icons with dotted trails. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars change from gray to yellow
  • dotted trails shift

Animation Summary

  • Stars change from gray to yellow with shifting dotted trails across repeated text

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star icons scattered
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' in two horizontal rows. Yellow star icons with dotted trails appear in multiple positions: top-left (gray star), top-center (yellow star), top-right (yellow star), middle-left (yellow star), middle-center (gray star), middle-right (yellow star), bottom-left (yellow star), bottom-center (yellow star), bottom-right (yellow star). Stars have dotted trails in yellow or gray. Text is repeated three times per row. All elements are pixelated.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' and yellow star icons with dotted trails.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20080926233337440050405
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink text be a star
  • yellow star icons dotted trails
  • repeated text be a star
  • gray star yellow star

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars change from gray to yellow with shifting dotted trails across repeated text rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative image evidence

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • Be A Star

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink text 'Be A Star'
  • yellow star icons
  • dotted trails
  • repeated text
  • pixelated
  • two
  • multiple star positions
  • gray star
  • yellow star

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080926233337440050405
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
591 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88d8cc2c163f3c5a2267e8dd991452b5e2ec3d6deb5b843f1d580110d0c04044.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
88d8cc2c163f3c5a
SHA-256
88d8cc2c163f3c5a2267e8dd991452b5e2ec3d6deb5b843f1d580110d0c04044
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 13:16 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000558

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' and yellow star icons with dotted trails.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,641 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 762

Review tags

  • stars have dotted trails (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars have dotted trails

Animation

  • stars change from gray to yellow
  • dotted trails shift

Animation Summary

  • Stars change from gray to yellow with shifting dotted trails across repeated text

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star icons scattered
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' in two horizontal rows. Yellow star icons with dotted trails appear in multiple positions: top-left (gray star), top-center (yellow star), top-right (yellow star), middle-left (yellow star), middle-center (gray star), middle-right (yellow star), bottom-left (yellow star), bottom-center (yellow star), bottom-right (yellow star). Stars have dotted trails in yellow or gray. Text is repeated three times per row. All elements are pixelated.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated pink text 'Be A Star' and yellow star icons with dotted trails.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20080926233337440050405
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink text be a star
  • yellow star icons dotted trails
  • repeated text be a star
  • gray star yellow star

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars change from gray to yellow with shifting dotted trails across repeated text rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative image evidence

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Subjects

  • star icons
  • text

Visible Text

  • Be A Star

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink text 'Be A Star'
  • yellow star icons
  • dotted trails
  • repeated text
  • pixelated
  • two
  • multiple star positions
  • gray star
  • yellow star
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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
20080926233337440050405
Archive entry
20080926233337440050405.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080926233337440050405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080926233337440050405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016