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Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a pattern with varying star sizes and positions

Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a pattern with varying star sizes and positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • arrangement
  • symmetrical
  • corner placement

Dense Caption

Black background features multiple white star shapes of varying sizes and orientations scattered across the frame. Four instances of red 'OK' text appear in the corners: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Stars are positioned in rows and columns with some stars larger and more central than others. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes. The stars have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics. The red 'OK' text is rendered in a bold, blocky font with slight pixelation. No additional symbols, clothing, or human subjects are present. The composition is symmetrical with stars forming a grid-like structure around the corner text.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a pattern with varying star sizes and positions

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white stars black background red OK
  • OK text corner stars
  • pixelated star red text
  • static star arrangement black background
  • red OK white stars corner placement
  • blocky font star shapes black background
  • symmetrical star red text
  • white stars red OK black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a grid pattern with varying star sizes and positions.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical star grid red text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated star grid red text
  • quarantined retrieval: OK text corner stars grid

Visible Text

  • OK

Wordwall

  • white stars
  • black background
  • red OK text
  • four corners
  • arrangement
  • varying star sizes
  • pixelated graphics
  • blocky font
  • symmetrical composition
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090201004128292916508
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88f7392956abcb83e8b15c1c7c28fc06957b723064d396cfa2c20914d716dde8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
88f7392956abcb83
SHA-256
88f7392956abcb83e8b15c1c7c28fc06957b723064d396cfa2c20914d716dde8
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 11:31 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000493

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.157049

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a pattern with varying star sizes and positions

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,955 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 742

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • arrangement
  • symmetrical
  • corner placement

Dense Caption

Black background features multiple white star shapes of varying sizes and orientations scattered across the frame. Four instances of red 'OK' text appear in the corners: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Stars are positioned in rows and columns with some stars larger and more central than others. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes. The stars have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics. The red 'OK' text is rendered in a bold, blocky font with slight pixelation. No additional symbols, clothing, or human subjects are present. The composition is symmetrical with stars forming a grid-like structure around the corner text.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a pattern with varying star sizes and positions

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • OK text corner stars
  • pixelated star red text
  • static star arrangement black background
  • red OK white stars corner placement
  • blocky font star shapes black background
  • symmetrical star red text
  • white stars red OK black background

Objects

  • star shapes
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white star shapes and red 'OK' text in four corners, arranged in a grid pattern with varying star sizes and positions.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical star grid red text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated star grid red text
  • quarantined retrieval: OK text corner stars grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • OK

Wordwall

  • white stars
  • black background
  • red OK text
  • four corners
  • arrangement
  • varying star sizes
  • pixelated graphics
  • blocky font
  • symmetrical composition
  • static image
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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
20090201004128292916508
Archive entry
20090201004128292916508.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090201004128292916508.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090201004128292916508.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016