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Pixelated cyan background with repeated red 'story' text and pink/purple star-shaped animations.

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Pixelated cyan background with repeated red 'story' text and pink/purple star-shaped animations.

Pixelated cyan background with repeated red 'story' text and pink/purple star-shaped animations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star shapes with dotted trails shift position across frames

Animation Summary

  • Star shapes with dotted trails animate at corners and mid-frame, shifting position across frames.

Composition

  • two of three text instances
  • four corner star animations
  • mid-frame stars

Dense Caption

Cyan background features six instances of the word 'story' in pixelated red font, arranged in two rows of three. Pink and purple star shapes animate at four corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right) with dotted trails; additional stars appear mid-frame between text rows. Star animations include small pink/purple dots forming trailing lines that shift position across frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with repeated red 'story' text and pink/purple star-shaped animations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801011023271067059481

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background red story text
  • pixelated star animations
  • six story instances
  • pink purple dot trails

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of three text instances

Visible Text

  • story

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • red 'story' text
  • six instances
  • pixelated font
  • pink star shapes
  • purple star shapes
  • dotted trails
  • four corner stars
  • mid-frame stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801011023271067059481
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/9730570339060bc4d3a93fcbd5230273c94ef2d6f3d52f2d917dc30dac93d520.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
9730570339060bc4
SHA-256
9730570339060bc4d3a93fcbd5230273c94ef2d6f3d52f2d917dc30dac93d520
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.161506

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Pixelated cyan background with repeated red 'story' text and pink/purple star-shaped animations.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:38 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,049 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 680

Review tags

  • animating (action, 0.80)
  • trailing dots (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • animating
  • trailing dots

Animation

  • star shapes with dotted trails shift position across frames

Animation Summary

  • Star shapes with dotted trails animate at corners and mid-frame, shifting position across frames.

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • two of three text instances
  • four corner star animations
  • mid-frame stars

Dense Caption

Cyan background features six instances of the word 'story' in pixelated red font, arranged in two rows of three. Pink and purple star shapes animate at four corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right) with dotted trails; additional stars appear mid-frame between text rows. Star animations include small pink/purple dots forming trailing lines that shift position across frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with repeated red 'story' text and pink/purple star-shaped animations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801011023271067059481

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background red story text
  • pixelated star animations
  • six story instances
  • pink purple dot trails

Objects

  • text
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of three text instances

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • story

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • red 'story' text
  • six instances
  • pixelated font
  • pink star shapes
  • purple star shapes
  • dotted trails
  • four corner stars
  • mid-frame 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
200801011023271067059481
Archive entry
200801011023271067059481.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200801011023271067059481.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801011023271067059481.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016