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Black star shapes and the text 'David' repeated across a white background in a static pattern.

Black star shapes and the text 'David' repeated across a white background in a static pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in four quadrants
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Black star shapes of varying sizes and opacities are scattered across a white background. The text 'David' appears in a bold, pixelated font in four distinct locations: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each 'David' text is positioned adjacent to a large star. The stars and text maintain consistent positions and visual properties across all visible frames. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with no visible animation or motion.

Description

  • Black star shapes and the text 'David' repeated across a white background in a static pattern.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black stars white background
  • David text repeated
  • pixelated David stars
  • four David stars
  • static star pattern
  • low resolution David
  • repeated David text
  • white background black stars

Visible Text

  • David

Wordwall

  • black stars
  • white background
  • text David
  • pixelated font
  • four instances
  • consistent spacing
  • low resolution
  • static image
  • repeated pattern
  • bold text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091118055437917782118
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3e34c94505294a9b0a066f6365f4b0833cb4001e37ec82eea0452101a5289e2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
a3e34c94505294a9
SHA-256
a3e34c94505294a9b0a066f6365f4b0833cb4001e37ec82eea0452101a5289e2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101591

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Black star shapes and the text 'David' repeated across a white background in a static pattern.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,387 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 673

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text in four quadrants
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Black star shapes of varying sizes and opacities are scattered across a white background. The text 'David' appears in a bold, pixelated font in four distinct locations: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each 'David' text is positioned adjacent to a large star. The stars and text maintain consistent positions and visual properties across all visible frames. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with no visible animation or motion.

Description

  • Black star shapes and the text 'David' repeated across a white background in a static pattern.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black stars white background
  • David text repeated
  • pixelated David stars
  • four David stars
  • static star pattern
  • low resolution David
  • repeated David text
  • white background black stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • David

Wordwall

  • black stars
  • white background
  • text David
  • pixelated font
  • four instances
  • consistent spacing
  • low resolution
  • static image
  • repeated pattern
  • bold 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
20091118055437917782118
Archive entry
20091118055437917782118.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091118055437917782118.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091118055437917782118.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016