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A pixelated star-shaped icon with the text 'billy' overlaid, surrounded by spiral patterns on a white background.

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A pixelated star-shaped icon with the text 'billy' overlaid, surrounded by spiral patterns on a white background.

A pixelated star-shaped icon with the text 'billy' overlaid, surrounded by spiral patterns on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central star
  • scattered spirals
  • text overlaid on star

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image featuring a large five-pointed star in shades of brown and yellow as the central element. Overlaid on the star is the text 'billy' in a black, pixelated font with a small white square detail on the left side of the 'b'. Surrounding the star are multiple spiral patterns in light brown and beige tones, scattered across a white background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated star-shaped icon with the text 'billy' overlaid, surrounded by spiral patterns 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200707310708132034436117

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • billy star icon
  • pixelated star with text
  • brown yellow spiral icon
  • retro digital star icon
  • text billy on star
  • star with white square on b
  • scattered spiral patterns
  • white background star icon

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • billy

Wordwall

  • star shape
  • text billy
  • spiral patterns
  • brown yellow colors
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • small white square on b
  • five-pointed star
  • light brown spirals

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707310708132034436117
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
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 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
96181af25f310760
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079113

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated star-shaped icon with the text 'billy' overlaid, surrounded by spiral patterns on a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,448 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 757

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • light brown

Composition

  • central star
  • scattered spirals
  • text overlaid on star

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image featuring a large five-pointed star in shades of brown and yellow as the central element. Overlaid on the star is the text 'billy' in a black, pixelated font with a small white square detail on the left side of the 'b'. Surrounding the star are multiple spiral patterns in light brown and beige tones, scattered across a white background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated star-shaped icon with the text 'billy' overlaid, surrounded by spiral patterns 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200707310708132034436117

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • billy star icon
  • pixelated star with text
  • brown yellow spiral icon
  • retro digital star icon
  • text billy on star
  • star with white square on b
  • scattered spiral patterns
  • white background star icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • star
  • spiral patterns

Visible Text

  • billy

Wordwall

  • star shape
  • text billy
  • spiral patterns
  • brown yellow colors
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • small white square on b
  • five-pointed star
  • light brown spirals
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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July 27, 2026 at 09:53 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
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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
200707310708132034436117
Archive entry
200707310708132034436117.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707310708132034436117.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707310708132034436117.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016