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A static image with text fragments arranged in a over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol

A static image with text fragments arranged in a over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • arrangement of text
  • central star behind text
  • blurred background elements

Dense Caption

The image displays fragmented white text on a dark, pixelated background. Top row reads 'shoot for the moon', 'even if u miss u', 'will land among the'. Bottom row shows 'STARS' and 'u'. A central black star with white outline is visible behind the text. The background features blurred arms raised in a V-shape against a dark interior setting. Text fragments are arranged in two rows, each containing three or four words.

Description

  • A static image with text fragments arranged in a over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810021719211705605220
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shoot for the moon even if u miss u will land among the STARS u
  • text fragments star symbol arms raised
  • inspirational text
  • white on dark pixelated background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a large gray rectangle obscuring part of the right side
  • quarantined description: A static image with text fragments arranged in a grid over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of text
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement of text
  • quarantined retrieval: inspirational text grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 200810021719211705605220
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: aim
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: anime
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: buddy-icons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: celebrities
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: games
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: historical-archive
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: holidays
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: humor

Subjects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • shoot for the moon
  • even if u miss u
  • will land among the
  • STARS
  • u

Visually Supported Entities

  • text fragments
  • star symbol
  • arms raised in V-shape

Wordwall

  • text fragments
  • white on dark
  • star symbol
  • arms raised
  • blurred background
  • two of text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810021719211705605220
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.3 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a127eaa966ab5612cbd78742a0b407c2e4b21288978644e8b451c6958ed4cacd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
a127eaa966ab5612
SHA-256
a127eaa966ab5612cbd78742a0b407c2e4b21288978644e8b451c6958ed4cacd
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.116929

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with text fragments arranged in a over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,683 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 861

Review tags

  • raised in v shape (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink accents (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • inspirational (mood, 0.80)
  • motivational (mood, 0.80)
  • text fragments (object, 0.80)
  • fragmented text layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • arms (subject, 0.80)
  • star symbol (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised in V-shape

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • dark gray
  • pink accents

Composition

  • arrangement of text
  • central star behind text
  • blurred background elements

Dense Caption

The image displays fragmented white text on a dark, pixelated background. Top row reads 'shoot for the moon', 'even if u miss u', 'will land among the'. Bottom row shows 'STARS' and 'u'. A central black star with white outline is visible behind the text. The background features blurred arms raised in a V-shape against a dark interior setting. Text fragments are arranged in two rows, each containing three or four words.

Description

  • A static image with text fragments arranged in a over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810021719211705605220
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • inspirational
  • motivational

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shoot for the moon even if u miss u will land among the STARS u
  • text fragments star symbol arms raised
  • inspirational text
  • white on dark pixelated background

Objects

  • text fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a large gray rectangle obscuring part of the right side
  • quarantined description: A static image with text fragments arranged in a grid over a blurred background showing arms raised and a star symbol.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of text
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement of text
  • quarantined retrieval: inspirational text grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 200810021719211705605220
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
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  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: buddy-icons
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  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: games
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: historical-archive
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: holidays
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • fragmented text layout

Subjects

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  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • shoot for the moon
  • even if u miss u
  • will land among the
  • STARS
  • u

Visually Supported Entities

  • text fragments
  • star symbol
  • arms raised in V-shape

Wordwall

  • text fragments
  • white on dark
  • star symbol
  • arms raised
  • blurred background
  • two of text
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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
200810021719211705605220
Archive entry
200810021719211705605220.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810021719211705605220.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810021719211705605220.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016