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Black background with white pixelated text "Loading.. Loading.." repeated twice, three star icons in different states of brightness.

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Black background with white pixelated text "Loading.. Loading.." repeated twice, three star icons in different states of brightness.

Black background with white pixelated text "Loading.. Loading.." repeated twice, three star icons in different states of brightness. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two lines of text stacked vertically
  • three stars distributed across the frame

Dense Caption

Black background displays two lines of white pixelated text reading "Loading.. Loading..". Three five-pointed stars appear: one bright white star centered below the top line of text, one gray star to the right of that center star, and another gray star at the bottom-right corner. The stars show varying brightness levels with no visible movement or animation.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "Loading.. Loading.." repeated twice, three star icons in different states of brightness.

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
  • 200903212139522129356228

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • loading text star icons
  • pixelated loading stars
  • black background white gray stars
  • three star loading screen

Objects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • Loading.. Loading..

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "Loading.. Loading.."
  • three five-pointed stars
  • bright white star
  • two gray stars
  • centered bright star
  • right-side gray star
  • bottom-right gray star

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903212139522129356228
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
788 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
9eb69c66c80e3955
SHA-256
9eb69c66c80e39551bfc769e895c4c0088d5ffbb515c9137eee3f5f24632bf89
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.091620

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text "Loading.. Loading.." repeated twice, three star icons in different states of brightness.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,265 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 613

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • star icons (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two lines of text stacked vertically
  • three stars distributed across the frame

Dense Caption

Black background displays two lines of white pixelated text reading "Loading.. Loading..". Three five-pointed stars appear: one bright white star centered below the top line of text, one gray star to the right of that center star, and another gray star at the bottom-right corner. The stars show varying brightness levels with no visible movement or animation.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "Loading.. Loading.." repeated twice, three star icons in different states of brightness.

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
  • 200903212139522129356228

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • loading text star icons
  • pixelated loading stars
  • black background white gray stars
  • three star loading screen

Objects

  • star icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Loading.. Loading..

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "Loading.. Loading.."
  • three five-pointed stars
  • bright white star
  • two gray stars
  • centered bright star
  • right-side gray star
  • bottom-right gray star
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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
200903212139522129356228
Archive entry
200903212139522129356228.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#200903212139522129356228.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903212139522129356228.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016