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Animated pixel art displays names and "besties!" text with green starbursts on black background, alternating between two states.

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Animated pixel art displays names and "besties!" text with green starbursts on black background, alternating between two states.

Animated pixel art displays names and "besties!" text with green starbursts on black background, alternating between two states. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • starbursts alternate between fully visible and partially obscured states in a two-state cycle

Animation Summary

  • Starbursts alternate between fully visible and partially obscured states in a two-state cycle while text remains static.

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of stars around text

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text: top row reads "marcus stephanie brianna", middle row shows "=", bottom row says "besties!". Green four-pointed starbursts appear at corners of each name and around "besties!", with one state showing stars fully visible and another state where the same stars are partially obscured or missing, creating a flickering effect. Text remains static while starbursts animate between full visibility and partial disappearance across two states.

Description

  • Animated pixel art displays names and "besties!" text with green starbursts on black background, alternating between two states.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080308165159304761454

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • marcus stephanie brianna besties green stars
  • pixel art names starbursts black background
  • green four-pointed starbursts flickering animation
  • besties! marcus stephanie brianna white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Visible Text

  • marcus
  • stephanie
  • brianna
  • =
  • besties!

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • green four-pointed starbursts
  • "marcus stephanie brianna"
  • "besties!"
  • "=" symbol
  • flickering animation
  • two-state cycle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080308165159304761454
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b02a2c6037be42616631401983f9d21827f6cc363b61eec4713a7bbe3c5cd237.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
b02a2c6037be4261
SHA-256
b02a2c6037be42616631401983f9d21827f6cc363b61eec4713a7bbe3c5cd237
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
0.075965

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927559onnx/unsafe0.075965onnx/nsfw0.044102onnx/nsfl0.031863
Enrichment records (1)
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Animated pixel art displays names and "besties!" text with green starbursts on black background, alternating between two states.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:34 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,401 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 695

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • green four pointed starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • names marcus stephanie brianna (subject, 0.80)
  • text besties (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • starbursts flicker between full visibility and partial disappearance

Animation

  • starbursts alternate between fully visible and partially obscured states in a two-state cycle

Animation Summary

  • Starbursts alternate between fully visible and partially obscured states in a two-state cycle while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of stars around text

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text: top row reads "marcus stephanie brianna", middle row shows "=", bottom row says "besties!". Green four-pointed starbursts appear at corners of each name and around "besties!", with one state showing stars fully visible and another state where the same stars are partially obscured or missing, creating a flickering effect. Text remains static while starbursts animate between full visibility and partial disappearance across two states.

Description

  • Animated pixel art displays names and "besties!" text with green starbursts on black background, alternating between two states.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080308165159304761454

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • marcus stephanie brianna besties green stars
  • pixel art names starbursts black background
  • green four-pointed starbursts flickering animation
  • besties! marcus stephanie brianna white text

Objects

  • green four-pointed starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • names "marcus", "stephanie", "brianna"
  • text "besties!"

Visible Text

  • marcus
  • stephanie
  • brianna
  • =
  • besties!

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • green four-pointed starbursts
  • "marcus stephanie brianna"
  • "besties!"
  • "=" symbol
  • flickering animation
  • two-state cycle
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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
20080308165159304761454
Archive entry
20080308165159304761454.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080308165159304761454.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080308165159304761454.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016