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Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text 'be my shooting star.'

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Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text 'be my shooting star.'

Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text 'be my shooting star.'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-200…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered yellow four-pointed stars. White pixelated text 'be my shooting star.' repeated four times in a grid layout. Text is rendered in a retro digital font. Stars are distributed across the background with varying spacing. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text 'be my shooting star.'

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be my shooting star
  • blue background yellow stars
  • pixelated text stars
  • retro digital shooting star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • be my shooting star.

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow stars
  • white text
  • be my shooting star
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802291520511717083183
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
631 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/ae624ab9b080318f5ef1c9af080085bf66dd601c323194a00d880210c125bf93.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
ae624ab9b080318f
SHA-256
ae624ab9b080318f5ef1c9af080085bf66dd601c323194a00d880210c125bf93
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099353

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text 'be my shooting star.'

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,057 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 517

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered yellow four-pointed stars. White pixelated text 'be my shooting star.' repeated four times in a grid layout. Text is rendered in a retro digital font. Stars are distributed across the background with varying spacing. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow stars and repeated white text 'be my shooting star.'

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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be my shooting star
  • blue background yellow stars
  • pixelated text stars
  • retro digital shooting star

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • be my shooting star.

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow stars
  • white text
  • be my shooting star
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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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
200802291520511717083183
Archive entry
200802291520511717083183.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802291520511717083183.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802291520511717083183.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016