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Pixelated text and star shapes on a black background with pink and white elements.

Pixelated text and star shapes on a black background with pink and white elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position across observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position across observations.

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • star placement shifts

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated pixelated text in bright magenta: 'new s/n:', 'whooaa', 'its', 'M0x3'. White stars (some solid, some outlined) appear scattered across the top-left to bottom-right. A gray rectangular block occupies the bottom-right corner. The star positions shift slightly between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star shapes on a black background with pink and white elements.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090427001742231396190

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta text black background
  • white stars gray rectangle
  • repeated 'new s/n:' text
  • 'whooaa' pixelated text

Visible Text

  • new s/n:
  • whooaa
  • its
  • M0x3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • magenta text
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle
  • repeated 'new s/n:'
  • 'whooaa' text
  • 'its' text
  • 'M0x3' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090427001742231396190
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
903 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d20d8f35c5e6a3be18f47df3acc1ac65c185f189c51eda3c5fa8433e1dfc7a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
8d20d8f35c5e6a3b
SHA-256
8d20d8f35c5e6a3be18f47df3acc1ac65c185f189c51eda3c5fa8433e1dfc7a3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 23:29 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000014

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
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1127
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sfw
Overall score
0.455452

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and star shapes on a black background with pink and white elements.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,204 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 630

Review tags

  • stars shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • white stars (object, 0.80)
  • stars shift position across observations (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position

Animation

  • stars shift position across observations

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • magenta
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • star placement shifts

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated pixelated text in bright magenta: 'new s/n:', 'whooaa', 'its', 'M0x3'. White stars (some solid, some outlined) appear scattered across the top-left to bottom-right. A gray rectangular block occupies the bottom-right corner. The star positions shift slightly between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text and star shapes on a black background with pink and white elements.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090427001742231396190

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta text black background
  • white stars gray rectangle
  • repeated 'new s/n:' text
  • 'whooaa' pixelated text

Objects

  • white stars
  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • new s/n:
  • whooaa
  • its
  • M0x3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • magenta text
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle
  • repeated 'new s/n:'
  • 'whooaa' text
  • 'its' text
  • 'M0x3' 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
20090427001742231396190
Archive entry
20090427001742231396190.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090427001742231396190.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090427001742231396190.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016