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Black background with white stars and repeated text 'cindy waz here' in pixelated font.

Black background with white stars and repeated text 'cindy waz here' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible content changes.

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • repeated text
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white stars of varying sizes and brightness. Text 'cindy waz here' appears in pixelated font, repeated multiple times across the image. The text and stars are static with no visible animation changes. The text is rendered in white with a slightly blurred effect, consistent with low-resolution pixel art. The stars are distributed throughout the background, some overlapping with the text. The overall style is retro digital with a grainy, low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and repeated text 'cindy waz here' in pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080921080734152059633

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cindy waz here
  • white stars black background
  • pixelated text stars
  • low-resolution retro digital
  • repeated text stars
  • cindy waz here stars
  • black background white text
  • pixel art stars text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • cindy waz here

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • cindy waz here
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • low-resolution
  • static image
  • white text
  • grainy appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080921080734152059633
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b1fc09e2a9b89925a1fcbdb6ceec7cdff5e4ccb15d5c52f8f3ad8838fa05c218.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
b1fc09e2a9b89925
SHA-256
b1fc09e2a9b89925a1fcbdb6ceec7cdff5e4ccb15d5c52f8f3ad8838fa05c218
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090327

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white stars and repeated text 'cindy waz here' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,660 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 810

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible changes (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible content changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • repeated text
  • black background

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white stars of varying sizes and brightness. Text 'cindy waz here' appears in pixelated font, repeated multiple times across the image. The text and stars are static with no visible animation changes. The text is rendered in white with a slightly blurred effect, consistent with low-resolution pixel art. The stars are distributed throughout the background, some overlapping with the text. The overall style is retro digital with a grainy, low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and repeated text 'cindy waz here' in pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080921080734152059633

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cindy waz here
  • white stars black background
  • pixelated text stars
  • low-resolution retro digital
  • repeated text stars
  • cindy waz here stars
  • black background white text
  • pixel art stars text

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • cindy waz here

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • cindy waz here
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • low-resolution
  • static image
  • white text
  • grainy appearance
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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
20080921080734152059633
Archive entry
20080921080734152059633.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080921080734152059633.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080921080734152059633.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016