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Black background with yellow pixelated text and stars, showing multiple 'smile' instances in different positions across frames.

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Black background with yellow pixelated text and stars, showing multiple 'smile' instances in different positions across frames.

Black background with yellow pixelated text and stars, showing multiple 'smile' instances in different positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; only static text and stars present across frames.

Composition

  • star scatter pattern
  • text placement variation

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background populated by small yellow plus-shaped star icons scattered throughout. Four distinct arrangements of the word 'smile' appear: top-left (static), top-right (static), bottom-left (static), and bottom-right (with two dots preceding it). The text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font with consistent yellow coloration across all instances. Star positions remain unchanged between frames; only the bottom-right 'smile' instance shows additional dot elements compared to other placements.

Description

  • Black background with yellow pixelated text and stars, showing multiple 'smile' instances in different positions across frames.

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
  • 20090407151249171513035

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smile pixel art
  • black background star icons
  • four smile arrangements
  • pixelated yellow text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible motion changes between frames; only static text and stars present

Visible Text

  • smile

Wordwall

  • yellow plus-shaped stars
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • four 'smile' arrangements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090407151249171513035
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
821 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/bab255adb52f49569f6188cda3efce0f2080db8009337595b83405ff44e07ea0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
bab255adb52f4956
SHA-256
bab255adb52f49569f6188cda3efce0f2080db8009337595b83405ff44e07ea0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098788

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with yellow pixelated text and stars, showing multiple 'smile' instances in different positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,275 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 582

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • plus shaped star icons (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; only static text and stars present across frames.

Colors

  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • star scatter pattern
  • text placement variation

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background populated by small yellow plus-shaped star icons scattered throughout. Four distinct arrangements of the word 'smile' appear: top-left (static), top-right (static), bottom-left (static), and bottom-right (with two dots preceding it). The text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font with consistent yellow coloration across all instances. Star positions remain unchanged between frames; only the bottom-right 'smile' instance shows additional dot elements compared to other placements.

Description

  • Black background with yellow pixelated text and stars, showing multiple 'smile' instances in different positions across frames.

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
  • 20090407151249171513035

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smile pixel art
  • black background star icons
  • four smile arrangements
  • pixelated yellow text

Objects

  • plus-shaped star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible motion changes between frames; only static text and stars present

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • smile

Wordwall

  • yellow plus-shaped stars
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • four 'smile' arrangements
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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
20090407151249171513035
Archive entry
20090407151249171513035.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090407151249171513035.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090407151249171513035.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016