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Blue background with repeated white text "Follow Your Own Star" and scattered yellow and blue stars.

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Blue background with repeated white text "Follow Your Own Star" and scattered yellow and blue stars.

Blue background with repeated white text "Follow Your Own Star" and scattered yellow and blue stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like arrangement of text blocks
  • scattered star elements

Dense Caption

Solid blue background contains four rows of identical pixelated text blocks reading "Follow Your Own Star" in white. Each block has three lines: "Follow", "Your", "Own Star". Scattered small stars appear throughout the image—yellow stars are bright, some have a subtle glow effect; blue stars are smaller and less prominent. The bottom-right corner shows partial gray area overlapping with the blue background.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "Follow Your Own Star" and scattered yellow and blue stars.

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
  • 20071005053311313890698

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text follow your own star
  • yellow stars blue stars pixel art
  • text-based inspirational icon
  • scattered stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text blocks
  • quarantined retrieval: scattered stars grid layout

Visible Text

  • Follow
  • Your
  • Own
  • Star

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • Follow Your Own Star
  • yellow stars
  • blue stars
  • pixelated text
  • three-line layout
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071005053311313890698
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
864 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bb/bb57d6975821b91876515da30a13bd8d89a80d50340d39aaa4951b9d449a605e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
bb57d6975821b918
SHA-256
bb57d6975821b91876515da30a13bd8d89a80d50340d39aaa4951b9d449a605e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114666

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated white text "Follow Your Own Star" and scattered yellow and blue stars.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,732 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 630

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • inspirational (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • like arrangement of text blocks
  • scattered star elements

Dense Caption

Solid blue background contains four rows of identical pixelated text blocks reading "Follow Your Own Star" in white. Each block has three lines: "Follow", "Your", "Own Star". Scattered small stars appear throughout the image—yellow stars are bright, some have a subtle glow effect; blue stars are smaller and less prominent. The bottom-right corner shows partial gray area overlapping with the blue background.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "Follow Your Own Star" and scattered yellow and blue stars.

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
  • 20071005053311313890698

Mood

  • inspirational
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text follow your own star
  • yellow stars blue stars pixel art
  • text-based inspirational icon
  • scattered stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text blocks
  • quarantined retrieval: scattered stars grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Follow
  • Your
  • Own
  • Star

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • Follow Your Own Star
  • yellow stars
  • blue stars
  • pixelated text
  • three-line layout
  • scattered stars
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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
20071005053311313890698
Archive entry
20071005053311313890698.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20071005053311313890698.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071005053311313890698.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016