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Black background with yellow pixelated stars and the word 'Starry' repeated in yellow pixelated text across the image.

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Black background with yellow pixelated stars and the word 'Starry' repeated in yellow pixelated text across the image.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • non-uniform star distribution
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered yellow pixelated stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'Starry' in yellow pixelated text are positioned across the image: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The stars are distributed in a non-uniform pattern with some stars larger than others. The text 'Starry' appears in a retro, low-resolution font style. No visible animation changes are present in the static image.

Description

  • Black background with yellow pixelated stars and the word 'Starry' repeated in yellow pixelated text across the image.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stars black background
  • Starry text pixelated
  • four Starry instances
  • retro pixel font
  • black yellow color scheme
  • non-uniform star pattern
  • low-resolution text
  • pixelated stars text

Visible Text

  • Starry

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated stars
  • black background
  • Starry text
  • four instances
  • retro font
  • non-uniform star distribution
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated text
  • yellow text
  • black backdrop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091229182716211713277
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
565 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab927afb18f45f2a951bf3a686163c36184c1bbadba483df7e5a926b9949db7c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
ab927afb18f45f2a
SHA-256
ab927afb18f45f2a951bf3a686163c36184c1bbadba483df7e5a926b9949db7c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093520

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with yellow pixelated stars and the word 'Starry' repeated in yellow pixelated text across the image.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,995 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 668

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • non-uniform star distribution
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered yellow pixelated stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the word 'Starry' in yellow pixelated text are positioned across the image: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The stars are distributed in a non-uniform pattern with some stars larger than others. The text 'Starry' appears in a retro, low-resolution font style. No visible animation changes are present in the static image.

Description

  • Black background with yellow pixelated stars and the word 'Starry' repeated in yellow pixelated text across the image.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stars black background
  • Starry text pixelated
  • four Starry instances
  • retro pixel font
  • black yellow color scheme
  • non-uniform star pattern
  • low-resolution text
  • pixelated stars text

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Starry

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated stars
  • black background
  • Starry text
  • four instances
  • retro font
  • non-uniform star distribution
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated text
  • yellow text
  • black backdrop
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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
20091229182716211713277
Archive entry
20091229182716211713277.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091229182716211713277.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091229182716211713277.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016