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Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' and small white star-like shapes scattered across the image.

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Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' and small white star-like shapes scattered across the image.

Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' and small white star-like shapes scattered across the image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star shapes flicker
  • star shapes change position

Animation Summary

  • Star shapes flicker and change position across observations while the text remains static.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' in a pixelated font; small white star-like shapes scattered across the image; some star shapes are static while others appear to flicker or change position across observations; the text remains consistently positioned in each observation; the star shapes vary in number and placement across observations; the overall composition is a grid-like arrangement of text and stars.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' and small white star-like shapes scattered across the image.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franksicons blue background
  • cyan text blue background
  • star shapes blue background
  • flickering stars blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • franksicons

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan text
  • franksicons
  • star shapes
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • arrangement
  • flickering stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808261005071215133246
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
8df407b65623bc8a
SHA-256
8df407b65623bc8a5132e45f6b8c87f3f6d47f3a65f14fb12bc3e5a18d7ae2c6
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
0.092711

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' and small white star-like shapes scattered across the image.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,887 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 754

Review tags

  • flickering (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star shapes change position (other, 0.80)
  • star shapes flicker (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flickering

Animation

  • star shapes flicker
  • star shapes change position

Animation Summary

  • Star shapes flicker and change position across observations while the text remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' in a pixelated font; small white star-like shapes scattered across the image; some star shapes are static while others appear to flicker or change position across observations; the text remains consistently positioned in each observation; the star shapes vary in number and placement across observations; the overall composition is a grid-like arrangement of text and stars.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated cyan text 'franksicons' and small white star-like shapes scattered across the image.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franksicons blue background
  • cyan text blue background
  • star shapes blue background
  • flickering stars blue background

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
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  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • franksicons

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan text
  • franksicons
  • star shapes
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • arrangement
  • flickering 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
200808261005071215133246
Archive entry
200808261005071215133246.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808261005071215133246.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808261005071215133246.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016