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Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text and white star-shaped icons with dotted trails.

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Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text and white star-shaped icons with dotted trails.

Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text and white star-shaped icons with dotted trails. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars alternate between solid white and light blue outline

Animation Summary

  • Stars alternate between solid white and light blue outline while text remains static.

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text in pixelated font. White star-shaped icons with dotted trails appear in multiple positions: some stars are solid white, others have a light blue outline. Stars are positioned in a grid-like arrangement with varying trail lengths. The text 'YASI' appears six times in pink pixelated letters. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text and white star-shaped icons with dotted trails.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink text white stars
  • pixelated YASI text
  • repeated star icons dotted trails
  • retro pixel art blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement

Visible Text

  • YASI

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink text
  • white stars
  • dotted trails
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • arrangement
  • retro style
  • limited color palette
  • six 'YASI' instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708221340441618983841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
576 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/bee17207e43512f38309b60934dc9c95f6ae553fbae9dd25171ff6a94a2f6e6d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
bee17207e43512f3
SHA-256
bee17207e43512f38309b60934dc9c95f6ae553fbae9dd25171ff6a94a2f6e6d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.102687

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text and white star-shaped icons with dotted trails.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,543 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 695

Review tags

  • dotted trails (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • limited palette (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • dotted trails

Animation

  • stars alternate between solid white and light blue outline

Animation Summary

  • Stars alternate between solid white and light blue outline while text remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text in pixelated font. White star-shaped icons with dotted trails appear in multiple positions: some stars are solid white, others have a light blue outline. Stars are positioned in a grid-like arrangement with varying trail lengths. The text 'YASI' appears six times in pink pixelated letters. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated pink 'YASI' text and white star-shaped icons with dotted trails.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink text white stars
  • pixelated YASI text
  • repeated star icons dotted trails
  • retro pixel art blue background

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • limited palette

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • YASI

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink text
  • white stars
  • dotted trails
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • arrangement
  • retro style
  • limited color palette
  • six 'YASI' instances
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:41 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708221340441618983841
Archive entry
200708221340441618983841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708221340441618983841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708221340441618983841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016