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The band text repeated three times per on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

The band text repeated three times per on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change sequentially across frames: solid plus signs → smaller asterisks → X-shaped crosses and scattered dots

Animation Summary

  • Symbols change from solid plus signs to smaller asterisks to X-shaped crosses and scattered dots across frames.

Composition

  • text arranged in three of two per
  • symbols centered below each text line

Dense Caption

Black background displays 'the band.' in white pixelated font, repeated six times (three rows of two). Pink star-like symbols appear below each 'the band.' text: first frame shows solid plus signs (+), second frame shows smaller asterisks (*), third frame shows X-shaped crosses (x) and scattered dots. Symbols change sequentially across frames without altering the static text or background.

Description

  • The band text repeated three times per on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

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
  • 200811131221471958840114

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the band text pink symbols
  • pixelated white text black background
  • animated star-like symbols changing
  • repeated 'the band.' text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: The band text repeated three times per row on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames.
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in three rows of two per row

Visible Text

  • the band.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated font
  • 'the band.' repeated six times
  • pink star-like symbols
  • solid plus signs (+)
  • smaller asterisks (*)
  • X-shaped crosses (x)
  • scattered dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811131221471958840114
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
720 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a944a505cb55441178e7ffc23b38f21d890c0d3b87fb6f55d8cfd7597b813e8e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
a944a505cb554411
SHA-256
a944a505cb55441178e7ffc23b38f21d890c0d3b87fb6f55d8cfd7597b813e8e
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 05:33 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001248

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.144535

OpenAI category scores

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The band text repeated three times per on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 668

Review tags

  • symbols change from to to x and dots (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pink star like symbols (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static text with animated symbols (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change from + to * to x and dots

Animation

  • symbols change sequentially across frames: solid plus signs → smaller asterisks → X-shaped crosses and scattered dots

Animation Summary

  • Symbols change from solid plus signs to smaller asterisks to X-shaped crosses and scattered dots across frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • text arranged in three of two per
  • symbols centered below each text line

Dense Caption

Black background displays 'the band.' in white pixelated font, repeated six times (three rows of two). Pink star-like symbols appear below each 'the band.' text: first frame shows solid plus signs (+), second frame shows smaller asterisks (*), third frame shows X-shaped crosses (x) and scattered dots. Symbols change sequentially across frames without altering the static text or background.

Description

  • The band text repeated three times per on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames

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
  • 200811131221471958840114

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the band text pink symbols
  • pixelated white text black background
  • animated star-like symbols changing
  • repeated 'the band.' text

Objects

  • pink star-like symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: The band text repeated three times per row on a black background with pink star-like symbols changing across frames.
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in three rows of two per row

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static text with animated symbols

Visible Text

  • the band.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated font
  • 'the band.' repeated six times
  • pink star-like symbols
  • solid plus signs (+)
  • smaller asterisks (*)
  • X-shaped crosses (x)
  • scattered dots
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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
200811131221471958840114
Archive entry
200811131221471958840114.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811131221471958840114.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811131221471958840114.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016