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Yellow background with pink star pattern and repeated black text 'WHOA!' in pixelated font.

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Yellow background with pink star pattern and repeated black text 'WHOA!' in pixelated font.

Yellow background with pink star pattern and repeated black text 'WHOA!' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating text
  • star background
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Yellow background filled with repeating pink star shapes. Black pixelated text 'WHOA!' appears in multiple rows across the image. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital style. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Yellow background with pink star pattern and repeated black text 'WHOA!' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pink star WHOA
  • pixelated WHOA text
  • gray rectangle corner
  • repeating star background
  • retro digital text
  • yellow background pink stars
  • WHOA text gray corner
  • pixel art star pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows

Visible Text

  • WHOA!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink star pattern
  • black text
  • WHOA!
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating text
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806201815241560662126
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bf41def53679d98d42c64371f2b4e048e1f9ebeca56368f1c6f9209e2f349cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
8bf41def53679d98
SHA-256
8bf41def53679d98d42c64371f2b4e048e1f9ebeca56368f1c6f9209e2f349cb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088132

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with pink star pattern and repeated black text 'WHOA!' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,410 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating text
  • star background
  • gray rectangle corner

Dense Caption

Yellow background filled with repeating pink star shapes. Black pixelated text 'WHOA!' appears in multiple rows across the image. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital style. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Yellow background with pink star pattern and repeated black text 'WHOA!' in pixelated font.

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

Mood

  • surprised
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pink star WHOA
  • pixelated WHOA text
  • gray rectangle corner
  • repeating star background
  • retro digital text
  • yellow background pink stars
  • WHOA text gray corner
  • pixel art star pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • WHOA!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink star pattern
  • black text
  • WHOA!
  • pixelated font
  • gray rectangle
  • repeating text
  • retro digital style
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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
200806201815241560662126
Archive entry
200806201815241560662126.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806201815241560662126.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806201815241560662126.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016