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Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple

Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • uniform star
  • text aligned horizontally

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background covered by a uniform grid of bright pink stars. Overlaid on the star pattern are three horizontal rows of the word 'kate' rendered in white pixelated font; each row contains three instances of the word, spaced evenly across the frame. The text appears static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple

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
  • 200709301735582091312023

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kate pink stars black background
  • white text kate star pattern
  • repeating pink stars white letters
  • nine kates on star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows aligned horizontally
  • quarantined composition: uniform star grid
  • quarantined retrieval: nine kates on star grid

Visible Text

  • kate

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink star pattern
  • white text
  • 'kate'
  • three
  • nine total words

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709301735582091312023
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/97f646f551226fc88b667e8fd298fb4234e8e7b638ff7f6154bdca6b0d5a37d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
97f646f551226fc8
SHA-256
97f646f551226fc88b667e8fd298fb4234e8e7b638ff7f6154bdca6b0d5a37d4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.095160

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,807 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pink stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text kate (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • bright pink
  • white

Composition

  • uniform star
  • text aligned horizontally

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background covered by a uniform grid of bright pink stars. Overlaid on the star pattern are three horizontal rows of the word 'kate' rendered in white pixelated font; each row contains three instances of the word, spaced evenly across the frame. The text appears static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple

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
  • 200709301735582091312023

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kate pink stars black background
  • white text kate star pattern
  • repeating pink stars white letters
  • nine kates on star

Objects

  • pink stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with repeating pink star pattern and white text 'kate' in multiple rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows aligned horizontally
  • quarantined composition: uniform star grid
  • quarantined retrieval: nine kates on star grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • text 'kate'

Visible Text

  • kate

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink star pattern
  • white text
  • 'kate'
  • three
  • nine total words
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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
200709301735582091312023
Archive entry
200709301735582091312023.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#200709301735582091312023.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709301735582091312023.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016