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Yellow background with purple stars and repeated white text 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!' across the image.

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Yellow background with purple stars and repeated white text 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!' across the image.

Yellow background with purple stars and repeated white text 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!' across the image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • star background
  • right-edge gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The icon features a bright yellow background covered in small, evenly spaced purple five-pointed stars. Overlaid on this pattern are three horizontal rows of identical white pixelated text reading 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!', each row positioned at different vertical intervals across the image. The rightmost portion of the icon shows a solid gray rectangular area that cuts off part of the star and text patterns, suggesting partial cropping or an incomplete frame. No animation is visible in this static representation.

Description

  • Yellow background with purple stars and repeated white text 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!' across the image.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090222074823988917872

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow purple stars boberta text
  • bobberta repeated white text yellow background
  • gray rectangle star pattern boberta
  • pixelated boberta text yellow stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frame
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

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

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • purple stars
  • white pixelated text
  • 'BOBERTA!' repeated three times
  • gray rectangle on right edge

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090222074823988917872
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/98fd53e576b7c10405049c6ddf234c082b4da60ded938bbe360e037eaf5ca309.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
98fd53e576b7c104
SHA-256
98fd53e576b7c10405049c6ddf234c082b4da60ded938bbe360e037eaf5ca309
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102130

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with purple stars and repeated white text 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!' across the image.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 711

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • star background
  • right-edge gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The icon features a bright yellow background covered in small, evenly spaced purple five-pointed stars. Overlaid on this pattern are three horizontal rows of identical white pixelated text reading 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!', each row positioned at different vertical intervals across the image. The rightmost portion of the icon shows a solid gray rectangular area that cuts off part of the star and text patterns, suggesting partial cropping or an incomplete frame. No animation is visible in this static representation.

Description

  • Yellow background with purple stars and repeated white text 'BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!' across the image.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090222074823988917872

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow purple stars boberta text
  • bobberta repeated white text yellow background
  • gray rectangle star pattern boberta
  • pixelated boberta text yellow stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frame
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

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

  • pixelated
  • repetitive pattern
  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • BOBERTA! BOBERTA! BOBERTA!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • purple stars
  • white pixelated text
  • 'BOBERTA!' repeated three times
  • gray rectangle on right edge
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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
20090222074823988917872
Archive entry
20090222074823988917872.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090222074823988917872.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090222074823988917872.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016