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Red background with black pixelated text reading "tiff iz a star" repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered plus signs.

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Red background with black pixelated text reading "tiff iz a star" repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered plus signs.

Red background with black pixelated text reading "tiff iz a star" repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered plus signs. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical layout
  • text blocks centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical blocks of black pixelated text: "tiff iz a star" arranged in two rows and two columns. Each block contains three lines: first line "tiff", second line "iz a", third line "star". Scattered small black plus signs (some larger) distributed across the entire red background, varying slightly between quadrants but maintaining overall pattern.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading "tiff iz a star" repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered plus signs.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080127072710848222127

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tiff iz a star pixel art
  • red background plus signs text
  • buddy icon tiff iz a star
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • tiff
  • iz a
  • star

Visually Supported Entities

  • tiff

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • "tiff iz a star"
  • four identical blocks
  • plus sign symbols
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080127072710848222127
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
597 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90761546af069ed4919fbdfc0c43266220e520bef3eafcdf6919f78b86b09112.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
90761546af069ed4
SHA-256
90761546af069ed4919fbdfc0c43266220e520bef3eafcdf6919f78b86b09112
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073453

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with black pixelated text reading "tiff iz a star" repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered plus signs.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,741 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 705

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • plus signs (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical layout
  • text blocks centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical blocks of black pixelated text: "tiff iz a star" arranged in two rows and two columns. Each block contains three lines: first line "tiff", second line "iz a", third line "star". Scattered small black plus signs (some larger) distributed across the entire red background, varying slightly between quadrants but maintaining overall pattern.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading "tiff iz a star" repeated in four quadrants, surrounded by scattered plus signs.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080127072710848222127

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tiff iz a star pixel art
  • red background plus signs text
  • buddy icon tiff iz a star
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • text
  • plus signs

Visible Text

  • tiff
  • iz a
  • star

Visually Supported Entities

  • tiff

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • "tiff iz a star"
  • four identical blocks
  • plus sign symbols
  • pixel art 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
20080127072710848222127
Archive entry
20080127072710848222127.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080127072710848222127.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080127072710848222127.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016