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Yellow star icons with black outlines and yellow glow effects, blue text fragments, and a gray rectangular overlay on a white background.

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Yellow star icons with black outlines and yellow glow effects, blue text fragments, and a gray rectangular overlay on a white background.

Yellow star icons with black outlines and yellow glow effects, blue text fragments, and a gray rectangular overlay on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift positions
  • text fragments change

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions and text fragments change across observations.

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text fragments
  • gray rectangle overlay

Dense Caption

Yellow five-pointed stars with black outlines and yellow glow effects appear in multiple positions. Blue text fragments read "IF ONLY" at top left, "& no one" at bottom right, and "would need 2 no" at bottom left. A solid gray rectangle covers the bottom-right portion of the image. The stars have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance with visible anti-aliasing. The background is white.

Description

  • Yellow star icons with black outlines and yellow glow effects, blue text fragments, and a gray rectangular overlay on a white background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stars blue text gray rectangle
  • pixelated stars text fragments
  • yellow stars black outlines
  • blue text yellow stars

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • IF ONLY
  • & no one
  • would need 2 no

Wordwall

  • yellow stars
  • black outlines
  • yellow glow
  • blue text
  • gray rectangle
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • anti-aliasing
  • text fragments
  • multiple star positions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071124104254302462672
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8ee7c1851e35b599c68016e08bdb7de5bf4e698b292a461207daef16e1e73826.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
8ee7c1851e35b599
SHA-256
8ee7c1851e35b599c68016e08bdb7de5bf4e698b292a461207daef16e1e73826
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103566

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow star icons with black outlines and yellow glow effects, blue text fragments, and a gray rectangular overlay on a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,913 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 676

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • stars shift positions (other, 0.80)
  • text fragments change (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • yellow stars (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • stars shift positions
  • text fragments change

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions and text fragments change across observations.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • blue
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text fragments
  • gray rectangle overlay

Dense Caption

Yellow five-pointed stars with black outlines and yellow glow effects appear in multiple positions. Blue text fragments read "IF ONLY" at top left, "& no one" at bottom right, and "would need 2 no" at bottom left. A solid gray rectangle covers the bottom-right portion of the image. The stars have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance with visible anti-aliasing. The background is white.

Description

  • Yellow star icons with black outlines and yellow glow effects, blue text fragments, and a gray rectangular overlay on a white background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stars blue text gray rectangle
  • pixelated stars text fragments
  • yellow stars black outlines
  • blue text yellow stars

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • yellow stars

Visible Text

  • IF ONLY
  • & no one
  • would need 2 no

Wordwall

  • yellow stars
  • black outlines
  • yellow glow
  • blue text
  • gray rectangle
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • anti-aliasing
  • text fragments
  • multiple star positions
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:19 UTC
Run
53
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20071124104254302462672
Archive entry
20071124104254302462672.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071124104254302462672.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071124104254302462672.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016