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Black background with pink 'DFTBA' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

Black background with pink 'DFTBA' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position
  • stars move slightly between frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position slightly between frames while text remains static.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Black background with four rows of four pink 'DFTBA' text blocks arranged in a grid. Each text block is accompanied by scattered cyan and dark blue stars. Stars vary in size and color, with cyan stars appearing brighter than dark blue stars. The stars are positioned around the text blocks, creating a scattered pattern. The text is rendered in a bold, pixelated font. The overall composition is symmetrical with consistent spacing between text blocks and stars.

Description

  • Black background with pink 'DFTBA' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DFTBA stars
  • pink text cyan stars
  • black background
  • pixelated DFTBA stars
  • scattered stars
  • DFTBA animation
  • cyan dark blue stars
  • text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with pink 'DFTBA' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of four
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined retrieval: text stars grid
  • quarantined retrieval: DFTBA grid animation
  • quarantined retrieval: scattered stars grid
  • quarantined retrieval: black background grid
  • quarantined retrieval: DFTBA stars grid

Visible Text

  • DFTBA

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • pattern
  • four
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • symmetrical composition
  • bold text
  • bright cyan stars
  • text blocks
  • consistent spacing
  • star sizes vary
  • text 'DFTBA'
  • four of four
  • star positions
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090219124025888276383
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bcc11defc75e611bae1820e442498681320bcbf725ae14339b7324466ec9698b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
bcc11defc75e611b
SHA-256
bcc11defc75e611bae1820e442498681320bcbf725ae14339b7324466ec9698b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000542

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.260092

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with pink 'DFTBA' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,969 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 735

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • stars move slightly between frames (other, 0.80)
  • stars shift position (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • scattered (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • stars shift position
  • stars move slightly between frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position slightly between frames while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • cyan
  • dark blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Black background with four rows of four pink 'DFTBA' text blocks arranged in a grid. Each text block is accompanied by scattered cyan and dark blue stars. Stars vary in size and color, with cyan stars appearing brighter than dark blue stars. The stars are positioned around the text blocks, creating a scattered pattern. The text is rendered in a bold, pixelated font. The overall composition is symmetrical with consistent spacing between text blocks and stars.

Description

  • Black background with pink 'DFTBA' text and scattered cyan and dark blue stars in a pattern

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DFTBA stars
  • pink text cyan stars
  • black background
  • pixelated DFTBA stars
  • scattered stars
  • DFTBA animation
  • cyan dark blue stars
  • text stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: text stars grid
  • quarantined retrieval: DFTBA grid animation
  • quarantined retrieval: scattered stars grid
  • quarantined retrieval: black background grid
  • quarantined retrieval: DFTBA stars grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • scattered

Visible Text

  • DFTBA

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • cyan stars
  • dark blue stars
  • pattern
  • four
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • symmetrical composition
  • bold text
  • bright cyan stars
  • text blocks
  • consistent spacing
  • star sizes vary
  • text 'DFTBA'
  • four of four
  • star positions
  • pixelated text
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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
20090219124025888276383
Archive entry
20090219124025888276383.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090219124025888276383.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090219124025888276383.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016