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Black background with scattered white stars and red text reading 'blank' in four locations.

Black background with scattered white stars and red text reading 'blank' in four locations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • four text placements

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background filled with numerous white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'blank' appear in bright red, pixelated lowercase letters: two near the top center-left and top center-right, one below the left star cluster, and one to the right of the bottom-center star cluster. The stars are scattered across the entire frame without a specific pattern.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white stars and red text reading 'blank' in four locations.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080901090609678961044

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars red blank text
  • four blank texts scattered stars
  • pixelated star pattern black background
  • red 'blank' text on starry background

Visible Text

  • blank

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white five-pointed stars
  • red 'blank' text
  • four instances
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080901090609678961044
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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
90d846bf5f536796
SHA-256
90d846bf5f5367963c12c9b1dfdc3ca73260c3895f0d8504d3c2f6cf87da08ec
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 08:24 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000024

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August 7, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
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1272
Input
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
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1133
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Overall score
0.236911

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with scattered white stars and red text reading 'blank' in four locations.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,782 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 604

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • four text placements

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background filled with numerous white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'blank' appear in bright red, pixelated lowercase letters: two near the top center-left and top center-right, one below the left star cluster, and one to the right of the bottom-center star cluster. The stars are scattered across the entire frame without a specific pattern.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white stars and red text reading 'blank' in four locations.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080901090609678961044

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars red blank text
  • four blank texts scattered stars
  • pixelated star pattern black background
  • red 'blank' text on starry background

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • blank

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white five-pointed stars
  • red 'blank' text
  • four instances
  • pixelated font
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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
20080901090609678961044
Archive entry
20080901090609678961044.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#20080901090609678961044.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080901090609678961044.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016