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Red background with white stars and repeated black text 'yaaaa boi' in pixelated font.

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Red background with white stars and repeated black text 'yaaaa boi' in pixelated font.

Red background with white stars and repeated black text 'yaaaa boi' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text quadrants
  • star scatter

Dense Caption

Solid red background filled with multiple white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the phrase 'yaaaa boi' appear in a bold, blocky, pixelated typeface; each instance consists of six lowercase 'a's followed by 'boi'. The text is black and positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. Stars are scattered across the background with no discernible pattern.

Description

  • Red background with white stars and repeated black text 'yaaaa boi' in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711101712511585244159

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white stars yaaaa boi
  • pixelated text four instances
  • yaaaa boi red star pattern
  • white stars black text red

Visible Text

  • yaaaa boi

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white stars
  • yaaaa boi text
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711101712511585244159
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3541bae008be502dfac57b90d7389c8cff5d46daf4fb879cc519c537388cbd8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
a3541bae008be502
SHA-256
a3541bae008be502dfac57b90d7389c8cff5d46daf4fb879cc519c537388cbd8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.172385

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white stars and repeated black text 'yaaaa boi' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,664 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (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 pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four text quadrants
  • star scatter

Dense Caption

Solid red background filled with multiple white five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the phrase 'yaaaa boi' appear in a bold, blocky, pixelated typeface; each instance consists of six lowercase 'a's followed by 'boi'. The text is black and positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. Stars are scattered across the background with no discernible pattern.

Description

  • Red background with white stars and repeated black text 'yaaaa boi' in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711101712511585244159

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white stars yaaaa boi
  • pixelated text four instances
  • yaaaa boi red star pattern
  • white stars black text red

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • yaaaa boi

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white stars
  • yaaaa boi text
  • pixelated font
  • four text instances
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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
200711101712511585244159
Archive entry
200711101712511585244159.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711101712511585244159.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711101712511585244159.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016