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Red star-shaped icons and white text on a black background, with multiple stars arranged around the text.

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Red star-shaped icons and white text on a black background, with multiple stars arranged around the text.

Red star-shaped icons and white text on a black background, with multiple stars arranged around the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four corners text layout
  • star arrangement around text

Dense Caption

Black background. Four instances of the word "DIMS" in bold, pixelated white uppercase letters positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Red five-pointed stars with blurred edges appear in various sizes: small stars (top row), medium stars (middle rows), and large stars (center). Stars are scattered across the background without overlapping text or each other.

Description

  • Red star-shaped icons and white text on a black background, with multiple stars arranged around the text.

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
  • 20071108150217111676030

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red star dims black background
  • dims text four corners red stars
  • pixelated white dims on black
  • blurred red stars multiple sizes

Visible Text

  • DIMS

Wordwall

  • red star icons
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • DIMS text
  • four instances of DIMS
  • blurred star edges
  • multiple star sizes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071108150217111676030
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/bee139e3245527cbb44666ffb0742a74813533e41e8b45e516ebfcb978d427a2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
bee139e3245527cb
SHA-256
bee139e3245527cbb44666ffb0742a74813533e41e8b45e516ebfcb978d427a2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083600

OpenAI category scores

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Red star-shaped icons and white text on a black background, with multiple stars arranged around the text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,161 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 619

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text dims (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • red stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • four corners text layout
  • star arrangement around text

Dense Caption

Black background. Four instances of the word "DIMS" in bold, pixelated white uppercase letters positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Red five-pointed stars with blurred edges appear in various sizes: small stars (top row), medium stars (middle rows), and large stars (center). Stars are scattered across the background without overlapping text or each other.

Description

  • Red star-shaped icons and white text on a black background, with multiple stars arranged around the text.

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
  • 20071108150217111676030

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red star dims black background
  • dims text four corners red stars
  • pixelated white dims on black
  • blurred red stars multiple sizes

Objects

  • text "DIMS"

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • red stars

Visible Text

  • DIMS

Wordwall

  • red star icons
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • DIMS text
  • four instances of DIMS
  • blurred star edges
  • multiple star sizes
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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
20071108150217111676030
Archive entry
20071108150217111676030.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071108150217111676030.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071108150217111676030.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016