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A black background displays repeated white text "a wish upon a star" with yellow and brown stars scattered around, some stars animated to change position.

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A black background displays repeated white text "a wish upon a star" with yellow and brown stars scattered around, some stars animated to change position.

A black background displays repeated white text "a wish upon a star" with yellow and brown stars scattered around, some stars animated to change position. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • yellow stars move across frames
  • brown stars static
  • text fixed

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars move across frames while brown stars and text remain static; gray rectangle appears in final frame.

Composition

  • text repeated vertically
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with repeated white text "a wish upon a star" in a pixelated font. Yellow stars (brighter, larger) and brown stars (darker, smaller) are scattered across the background. In the animation, yellow stars shift position across frames: some move from upper-left to upper-right, others from lower-left to lower-right. Brown stars remain static. The text remains fixed in all frames. A gray rectangular area appears in the bottom-right corner of the final frame.

Description

A black background displays repeated white text "a wish upon a star" with yellow and brown stars scattered around, some stars animated to change position.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a wish upon a star text
  • yellow stars shift
  • black background pixel art
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • brown stars scattered
  • text repeated vertically
  • stars animated
  • pixelated font

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle appears only in final frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Visible Text

  • a wish upon a star

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • a wish upon a star
  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • pixelated font
  • stars shift position
  • gray rectangle
  • text fixed
  • stars scattered

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708200842392132088914
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
890 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b375ef65f571d082c6a8af5b1a28f6701ed32f0c328fa4e604b2bca996530163.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
b375ef65f571d082
SHA-256
b375ef65f571d082c6a8af5b1a28f6701ed32f0c328fa4e604b2bca996530163
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071769

OpenAI category scores

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

A black background displays repeated white text "a wish upon a star" with yellow and brown stars scattered around, some stars animated to change position.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,556 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 757

Review tags

  • stars shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • brown stars (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • yellow stars (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position

Animation

  • yellow stars move across frames
  • brown stars static
  • text fixed

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars move across frames while brown stars and text remain static; gray rectangle appears in final frame.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • text repeated vertically
  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with repeated white text "a wish upon a star" in a pixelated font. Yellow stars (brighter, larger) and brown stars (darker, smaller) are scattered across the background. In the animation, yellow stars shift position across frames: some move from upper-left to upper-right, others from lower-left to lower-right. Brown stars remain static. The text remains fixed in all frames. A gray rectangular area appears in the bottom-right corner of the final frame.

Description

A black background displays repeated white text "a wish upon a star" with yellow and brown stars scattered around, some stars animated to change position.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • calm
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow stars shift
  • black background pixel art
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • brown stars scattered
  • text repeated vertically
  • stars animated
  • pixelated font

Objects

  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle appears only in final frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • animated

Visible Text

  • a wish upon a star

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • a wish upon a star
  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • pixelated font
  • stars shift position
  • gray rectangle
  • text fixed
  • stars scattered
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:18 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708200842392132088914
Archive entry
200708200842392132088914.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708200842392132088914.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708200842392132088914.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016