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Red text and white star icons on black background with gray corner element, animated sequence showing varying star counts per icon position.

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Red text and white star icons on black background with gray corner element, animated sequence showing varying star counts per icon position.

Red text and white star icons on black background with gray corner element, animated sequence showing varying star counts per icon position. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star counts vary per position

Animation Summary

  • Star counts change per position: left (1→2→4 stars), center (2→5 stars), right (3→4 stars) while all other elements remain fixed

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • vertical star

Dense Caption

Black background contains red pixelated text 'Kristina<3' repeated across three horizontal rows. White four-pointed stars appear in vertical stacks at specific positions: top-left (1 star), center-top (2 stars), right-center (3 stars), left-middle (4 stars), center-middle (5 stars), right-middle (4 stars), bottom-left (3 stars), and center-bottom (2 stars). A solid gray rectangular block occupies the bottom-right corner. Text 'Kristina<3' appears in red pixelated font at top, middle, and bottom rows. Star stacks animate by changing count per position across observations: 1→2→4 stars left column; 2→5 stars center column; 3→4 stars right column. All elements maintain fixed positions with only star counts varying.

Description

  • Red text and white star icons on black background with gray corner element, animated sequence showing varying star counts per icon position.

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
  • 200804151443201155403981

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Kristina<3 star animation
  • pixel art text and stars
  • red text white stars black background
  • animated star stacks Kristina<3
  • vertical star red text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Star counts change per position: left column (1→2→4 stars), center column (2→5 stars), right column (3→4 stars) while all other elements remain fixed.
  • quarantined composition: vertical star columns
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical star columns red text

Visible Text

  • Kristina<3

Wordwall

  • red text 'Kristina<3'
  • white four-pointed stars
  • black background
  • gray corner block
  • pixelated font
  • vertical star stacks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804151443201155403981
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
357 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9e72c10935730e8db4bb56e73d43812b567cf5cc87729083f80c36dfcf230666.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
9e72c10935730e8d
SHA-256
9e72c10935730e8db4bb56e73d43812b567cf5cc87729083f80c36dfcf230666
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.222014

OpenAI category scores

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Red text and white star icons on black background with gray corner element, animated sequence showing varying star counts per icon position.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,135 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 741

Review tags

  • star stacks change count (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black background (object, 0.80)
  • gray corner block (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text kristina 3 (subject, 0.80)
  • white stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star stacks change count

Animation

  • star counts vary per position

Animation Summary

  • Star counts change per position: left (1→2→4 stars), center (2→5 stars), right (3→4 stars) while all other elements remain fixed

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • vertical star

Dense Caption

Black background contains red pixelated text 'Kristina<3' repeated across three horizontal rows. White four-pointed stars appear in vertical stacks at specific positions: top-left (1 star), center-top (2 stars), right-center (3 stars), left-middle (4 stars), center-middle (5 stars), right-middle (4 stars), bottom-left (3 stars), and center-bottom (2 stars). A solid gray rectangular block occupies the bottom-right corner. Text 'Kristina<3' appears in red pixelated font at top, middle, and bottom rows. Star stacks animate by changing count per position across observations: 1→2→4 stars left column; 2→5 stars center column; 3→4 stars right column. All elements maintain fixed positions with only star counts varying.

Description

  • Red text and white star icons on black background with gray corner element, animated sequence showing varying star counts per icon position.

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
  • 200804151443201155403981

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixel art text and stars
  • red text white stars black background
  • animated star stacks Kristina<3
  • vertical star red text

Objects

  • black background
  • gray corner block

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: vertical star columns
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical star columns red text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text 'Kristina<3'
  • white stars

Visible Text

  • Kristina<3

Wordwall

  • red text 'Kristina<3'
  • white four-pointed stars
  • black background
  • gray corner block
  • pixelated font
  • vertical star stacks
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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
200804151443201155403981
Archive entry
200804151443201155403981.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804151443201155403981.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804151443201155403981.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016