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Animated icon with pink stars and 'BAM' text on black background, stars and text shift positions across frames.

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Animated icon with pink stars and 'BAM' text on black background, stars and text shift positions across frames.

Animated icon with pink stars and 'BAM' text on black background, stars and text shift positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift positions
  • text shifts positions

Animation Summary

  • Stars and 'BAM' text shift positions across frames; no other visual changes.

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in multiple locations

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple pink stars of varying sizes. Pink 'BAM' text appears in multiple locations across the icon. Stars and text shift positions between frames; some stars are partially obscured by text. Pixelated rendering style with no visible borders or additional elements. Animation consists of positional changes to stars and text without color or shape alterations.

Description

  • Animated icon with pink stars and 'BAM' text on black background, stars and text shift positions across frames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink stars black background
  • BAM text animation
  • pixelated stars animation
  • black background pink text
  • star positions shift
  • text positions shift
  • BAM stars animation
  • animated pink stars

Visible Text

  • BAM

Wordwall

  • pink stars
  • black background
  • BAM text
  • pixelated
  • star positions shift
  • text positions shift
  • multiple stars
  • no borders
  • text partially obscures stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708261508221812901768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d3c07419b09a6ce730f488440e7ce631bc297ccc67ca87f944cb755b0794640.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
8d3c07419b09a6ce
SHA-256
8d3c07419b09a6ce730f488440e7ce631bc297ccc67ca87f944cb755b0794640
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133511

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated icon with pink stars and 'BAM' text on black background, stars and text shift positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,729 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 600

Review tags

  • shift positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars shift positions (other, 0.80)
  • text shifts positions (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shift positions

Animation

  • stars shift positions
  • text shifts positions

Animation Summary

  • Stars and 'BAM' text shift positions across frames; no other visual changes.

Colors

  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in multiple locations

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple pink stars of varying sizes. Pink 'BAM' text appears in multiple locations across the icon. Stars and text shift positions between frames; some stars are partially obscured by text. Pixelated rendering style with no visible borders or additional elements. Animation consists of positional changes to stars and text without color or shape alterations.

Description

  • Animated icon with pink stars and 'BAM' text on black background, stars and text shift positions across frames.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink stars black background
  • BAM text animation
  • pixelated stars animation
  • black background pink text
  • star positions shift
  • text positions shift
  • BAM stars animation
  • animated pink stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • BAM

Wordwall

  • pink stars
  • black background
  • BAM text
  • pixelated
  • star positions shift
  • text positions shift
  • multiple stars
  • no borders
  • text partially obscures stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:12 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708261508221812901768
Archive entry
200708261508221812901768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708261508221812901768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708261508221812901768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016