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Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating pattern

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Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating pattern

Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • white stars shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • White stars shift position between frames while dark gray stars remain static; text and rectangle shape are unchanged

Composition

  • four vertical text
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains four vertical columns of identical pixelated pink text: 'B.R.L', 'A.O.V', 'L.D.H', 'E.M.R', '<33' repeated across all rows. White and dark gray stars scattered throughout the black space; white stars appear to move between frames while dark gray stars remain static. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner of image, partially obscuring text columns. Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style with no visible animation except for star movement.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating pattern

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
  • 20080708233842327575771

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text white stars black background
  • B.R.L A.O.V L.D.H E.M.R <33
  • 8-bit pixel art star movement
  • text scattered stars gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating grid pattern.
  • quarantined animationSummary: White stars shift position between frames while dark gray stars remain static; text columns and rectangle shape are unchanged.
  • quarantined objects: text columns
  • quarantined composition: four vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: text columns scattered stars gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • B.R.L
  • A.O.V
  • L.D.H
  • E.M.R
  • <33

Wordwall

  • B.R.L
  • A.O.V
  • L.D.H
  • E.M.R
  • <33
  • white stars
  • dark gray stars
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated pink text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080708233842327575771
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
932 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/898a56e1521b62fe586fcfa0aaa798626dc7ccbf01f21b2c7373231ab27ece87.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
898a56e1521b62fe
SHA-256
898a56e1521b62fe586fcfa0aaa798626dc7ccbf01f21b2c7373231ab27ece87
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.101623

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930023onnx/unsafe0.101623onnx/nsfw0.059977onnx/nsfl0.041646
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Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,456 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,118, response 651

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • rectangle shape (object, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text rendering (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move between frames

Animation

  • white stars shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • White stars shift position between frames while dark gray stars remain static; text and rectangle shape are unchanged

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • dark gray
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four vertical text
  • scattered stars
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains four vertical columns of identical pixelated pink text: 'B.R.L', 'A.O.V', 'L.D.H', 'E.M.R', '<33' repeated across all rows. White and dark gray stars scattered throughout the black space; white stars appear to move between frames while dark gray stars remain static. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner of image, partially obscuring text columns. Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style with no visible animation except for star movement.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating pattern

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
  • 20080708233842327575771

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text white stars black background
  • B.R.L A.O.V L.D.H E.M.R <33
  • 8-bit pixel art star movement
  • text scattered stars gray rectangle

Objects

  • text
  • star shapes
  • rectangle shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated pink text and white stars on black background with gray rectangle in bottom-right corner, arranged in repeating grid pattern.
  • quarantined animationSummary: White stars shift position between frames while dark gray stars remain static; text columns and rectangle shape are unchanged.
  • quarantined objects: text columns
  • quarantined composition: four vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: text columns scattered stars gray rectangle

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky text rendering

Visible Text

  • B.R.L
  • A.O.V
  • L.D.H
  • E.M.R
  • <33

Wordwall

  • B.R.L
  • A.O.V
  • L.D.H
  • E.M.R
  • <33
  • white stars
  • dark gray stars
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated pink 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
20080708233842327575771
Archive entry
20080708233842327575771.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080708233842327575771.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080708233842327575771.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016