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Animated icon with light blue stars on black background, white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' visible in different positions.

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Animated icon with light blue stars on black background, white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' visible in different positions.

Animated icon with light blue stars on black background, white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' visible in different positions. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text fragments shift positions

Animation Summary

  • Text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' shift positions across frames while stars remain static.

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text fragments distributed

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered light blue five-pointed stars; white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', and 'hope.' appear in different positions across the frame; stars are static while text fragments shift; no visible motion in stars; text fragments are partial words; all elements are pixelated; no additional objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Animated icon with light blue stars on black background, white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' visible in different positions.

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

  • light blue stars black background
  • text fragments h ho hop hope
  • pixelated text shifts
  • static stars text shifts

Visible Text

  • h.
  • ho.
  • hop.
  • hope.

Wordwall

  • light blue stars
  • black background
  • white text fragments
  • h.
  • ho.
  • hop.
  • hope.
  • partial words
  • pixelated
  • static stars
  • text shifts

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806300939021320920470
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/aff3338b95449ab306649424f33eb3fdfd90104966fa11cfe0f29904fa5035f7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
aff3338b95449ab3
SHA-256
aff3338b95449ab306649424f33eb3fdfd90104966fa11cfe0f29904fa5035f7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100023

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon with light blue stars on black background, white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' visible in different positions.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 663

Review tags

  • text shifts (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle (mood, 0.80)
  • light blue stars (object, 0.80)
  • text fragments shift positions (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • text shifts

Animation

  • text fragments shift positions

Animation Summary

  • Text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' shift positions across frames while stars remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • text fragments distributed

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered light blue five-pointed stars; white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', and 'hope.' appear in different positions across the frame; stars are static while text fragments shift; no visible motion in stars; text fragments are partial words; all elements are pixelated; no additional objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Animated icon with light blue stars on black background, white text fragments 'h.', 'ho.', 'hop.', 'hope.' visible in different positions.

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

Mood

  • calm
  • subtle

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue stars black background
  • text fragments h ho hop hope
  • pixelated text shifts
  • static stars text shifts

Objects

  • light blue stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • h.
  • ho.
  • hop.
  • hope.

Wordwall

  • light blue stars
  • black background
  • white text fragments
  • h.
  • ho.
  • hop.
  • hope.
  • partial words
  • pixelated
  • static stars
  • text shifts
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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
200806300939021320920470
Archive entry
200806300939021320920470.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806300939021320920470.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806300939021320920470.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016