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Two pixelated star shapes on a split background of dark brown, white, and gray sections.

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Two pixelated star shapes on a split background of dark brown, white, and gray sections.

Two pixelated star shapes on a split background of dark brown, white, and gray sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Composition

  • top-left star on dark brown
  • bottom-left star on white
  • right-side gray

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct pixelated star icons. The top icon is white with four arms (one vertical, one horizontal, and two diagonal) positioned in the upper-left section against a solid dark brown background. The bottom icon is dark brown with four arms (one vertical, one horizontal, and two diagonal) positioned in the lower-left section against a solid white background. Both icons are rendered in 8-bit style with blocky pixels. A large gray area occupies the right side of the image, spanning from top to bottom.

Description

  • Two pixelated star shapes on a split background of dark brown, white, and gray sections.

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
  • 200803171729231466050205

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated star icons dark brown white gray
  • 8-bit four-armed stars split background
  • white star on dark brown brown star on white
  • two pixel art stars 8-bit style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: right-side gray panel

Subjects

  • star icons

Wordwall

  • two pixelated stars
  • white star on dark brown
  • brown star on white
  • split background
  • dark brown section
  • white section
  • gray section
  • 8-bit style
  • four-armed stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803171729231466050205
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
385 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/8978b54d98dea03657e99845517ee37fef98c2427f38234393b6cf1fa7e15177.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
8978b54d98dea036
SHA-256
8978b54d98dea03657e99845517ee37fef98c2427f38234393b6cf1fa7e15177
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 12:11 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000021

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.265629

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Two pixelated star shapes on a split background of dark brown, white, and gray sections.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,699 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 664

Review tags

  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Colors

  • dark brown
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left star on dark brown
  • bottom-left star on white
  • right-side gray

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct pixelated star icons. The top icon is white with four arms (one vertical, one horizontal, and two diagonal) positioned in the upper-left section against a solid dark brown background. The bottom icon is dark brown with four arms (one vertical, one horizontal, and two diagonal) positioned in the lower-left section against a solid white background. Both icons are rendered in 8-bit style with blocky pixels. A large gray area occupies the right side of the image, spanning from top to bottom.

Description

  • Two pixelated star shapes on a split background of dark brown, white, and gray sections.

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
  • 200803171729231466050205

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated star icons dark brown white gray
  • 8-bit four-armed stars split background
  • white star on dark brown brown star on white
  • two pixel art stars 8-bit style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: right-side gray panel

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • star icons

Wordwall

  • two pixelated stars
  • white star on dark brown
  • brown star on white
  • split background
  • dark brown section
  • white section
  • gray section
  • 8-bit style
  • four-armed stars
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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
200803171729231466050205
Archive entry
200803171729231466050205.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803171729231466050205.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803171729231466050205.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016