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Pixelated text *Michael* surrounded by pink and blue stars on a bright cyan background, with stars shifting positions across frames.

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Pixelated text *Michael* surrounded by pink and blue stars on a bright cyan background, with stars shifting positions across frames.

Pixelated text *Michael* surrounded by pink and blue stars on a bright cyan background, with stars shifting positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change
  • star counts vary per frame

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across frames: pink stars move left to right, blue stars shift vertically, and star counts vary per frame.

Composition

  • text-centered
  • star-distributed
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background with repeated pixelated text *Michael* in black, each instance flanked by pink and blue stars. Stars shift positions across frames: some pink stars move from left to right, blue stars shift vertically, and star counts vary per frame. The rightmost frame shows a gray rectangular area partially obscuring the background. Text is consistently *Michael* with asterisks on both sides. Star colors are pink and blue; background is solid cyan. No other objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Pixelated text *Michael* surrounded by pink and blue stars on a bright cyan background, with stars shifting positions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • *Michael* cyan background pink stars
  • pixelated text star movement
  • cyan background gray rectangle
  • star positions change

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle on right may be cropping artifact

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Visible Text

  • *Michael*

Wordwall

  • *Michael* text
  • cyan background
  • pink stars
  • blue stars
  • star movement
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • asterisks on text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731145444980398009
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
865 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cbfc31e241ef036e865ddd6e11c72853a13771f90a69dd36695cfe61e9e899a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
9cbfc31e241ef036
SHA-256
9cbfc31e241ef036e865ddd6e11c72853a13771f90a69dd36695cfe61e9e899a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 02:24 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000605

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text *Michael* surrounded by pink and blue stars on a bright cyan background, with stars shifting positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,272 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 702

Review tags

  • star movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • star movement

Animation

  • star positions change
  • star counts vary per frame

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across frames: pink stars move left to right, blue stars shift vertically, and star counts vary per frame.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • text-centered
  • star-distributed
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background with repeated pixelated text *Michael* in black, each instance flanked by pink and blue stars. Stars shift positions across frames: some pink stars move from left to right, blue stars shift vertically, and star counts vary per frame. The rightmost frame shows a gray rectangular area partially obscuring the background. Text is consistently *Michael* with asterisks on both sides. Star colors are pink and blue; background is solid cyan. No other objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Pixelated text *Michael* surrounded by pink and blue stars on a bright cyan background, with stars shifting positions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • *Michael* cyan background pink stars
  • pixelated text star movement
  • cyan background gray rectangle
  • star positions change

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle on right may be cropping artifact

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive text

Visible Text

  • *Michael*

Wordwall

  • *Michael* text
  • cyan background
  • pink stars
  • blue stars
  • star movement
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • asterisks on text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070731145444980398009
Archive entry
20070731145444980398009.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#20070731145444980398009.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731145444980398009.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016