Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading 'iconator dot com!' on a black background.

Permanent icon record

Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading 'iconator dot com!' on a black background.

Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading 'iconator dot com!' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars move clockwise around each text instance across observations

Animation Summary

  • Green stars orbit clockwise around four instances of 'iconator dot com!' text across sequential observations.

Composition

  • four text-star groupings per frame
  • one gray square at bottom right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays multiple instances of the phrase "iconator dot com!" in white pixelated font against a solid black background. Green star shapes, varying in size and position across different frames, animate clockwise around each instance of the text. The stars appear to move from top-left toward bottom-right positions relative to the text in sequential observations. Each frame contains four distinct text-star groupings arranged in a grid-like layout with one gray square visible at the bottom right corner.

Description

  • Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading 'iconator dot com!' on a black background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803221140441767049883

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green star icon
  • text iconator dot com
  • clockwise moving stars
  • pixelated black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout with four text-star groupings per frame

Visible Text

  • iconator dot com!

Wordwall

  • green star
  • black background
  • white pixelated font
  • text 'iconator dot com!'
  • clockwise motion
  • four text instances
  • gray square element

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803221140441767049883
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
872 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bf423e103b5d2e234bbf10de02057aff89163e7ae32c96066ff0e62e2198405a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
bf423e103b5d2e23
SHA-256
bf423e103b5d2e234bbf10de02057aff89163e7ae32c96066ff0e62e2198405a
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
0.075335

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932151onnx/unsafe0.075335onnx/nsfl0.042901onnx/nsfw0.032435
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading 'iconator dot com!' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:27 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,231 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 729

Review tags

  • stars orbit text (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • black background (object, 0.80)
  • gray square (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • green stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text iconator dot com (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars orbit text

Animation

  • stars move clockwise around each text instance across observations

Animation Summary

  • Green stars orbit clockwise around four instances of 'iconator dot com!' text across sequential observations.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • four text-star groupings per frame
  • one gray square at bottom right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays multiple instances of the phrase "iconator dot com!" in white pixelated font against a solid black background. Green star shapes, varying in size and position across different frames, animate clockwise around each instance of the text. The stars appear to move from top-left toward bottom-right positions relative to the text in sequential observations. Each frame contains four distinct text-star groupings arranged in a grid-like layout with one gray square visible at the bottom right corner.

Description

  • Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading 'iconator dot com!' on a black background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803221140441767049883

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green star icon
  • text iconator dot com
  • clockwise moving stars
  • pixelated black background

Objects

  • black background
  • gray square

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout with four text-star groupings per frame

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • green stars
  • text 'iconator dot com!'

Visible Text

  • iconator dot com!

Wordwall

  • green star
  • black background
  • white pixelated font
  • text 'iconator dot com!'
  • clockwise motion
  • four text instances
  • gray square element
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "bf423e103b5d2e234bbf10de02057aff89163e7ae32c96066ff0e62e2198405a",
  "description": "Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027 on a black background.",
  "denseCaption": "The image displays multiple instances of the phrase \u0022iconator dot com!\u0022 in white pixelated font against a solid black background. Green star shapes, varying in size and position across different frames, animate clockwise around each instance of the text. The stars appear to move from top-left toward bottom-right positions relative to the text in sequential observations. Each frame contains four distinct text-star groupings arranged in a grid-like layout with one gray square visible at the bottom right corner.",
  "wordwall": [
    "green star",
    "black background",
    "white pixelated font",
    "text \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027",
    "clockwise motion",
    "four text instances",
    "gray square element"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!",
    "iconator dot com!"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "green stars",
    "text \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027"
  ],
  "actions": [
    "stars orbit text"
  ],
  "objects": [
    "black background",
    "gray square"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "black",
    "white",
    "green",
    "gray"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "low-resolution",
    "retro digital"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "four text-star groupings per frame",
    "one gray square at bottom right corner"
  ],
  "mood": [],
  "animation": [
    "stars move clockwise around each text instance across observations"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "quarantined composition: grid layout with four text-star groupings per frame"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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 collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: holidays",
    "provenance topic-coverage: humor"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "2007-2016",
    "franksicons",
    "200803221140441767049883"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "Green stars orbit clockwise around four instances of \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027 text across sequential observations.",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "green star icon",
    "text iconator dot com",
    "clockwise moving stars",
    "pixelated black background"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "green stars",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: green stars"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text iconator dot com",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027"
    },
    {
      "tag": "stars orbit text",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: stars orbit text"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black background",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black background"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gray square",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gray square"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "low resolution",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: low-resolution"
    },
    {
      "tag": "retro digital",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: retro digital"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "green",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: green"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gray"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "bf423e103b5d2e234bbf10de02057aff89163e7ae32c96066ff0e62e2198405a",
        "description": "Pixelated green stars orbit around white text reading \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027 on a black background.",
        "denseCaption": "The image displays multiple instances of the phrase \u0022iconator dot com!\u0022 in white pixelated font against a solid black background. Green star shapes, varying in size and position across different frames, animate clockwise around each instance of the text. The stars appear to move from top-left toward bottom-right positions relative to the text in sequential observations. Each frame contains four distinct text-star groupings arranged in a grid-like layout with one gray square visible at the bottom right corner.",
        "wordwall": [
          "green star",
          "black background",
          "white pixelated font",
          "text \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027",
          "clockwise motion",
          "four text instances",
          "gray square element"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!",
          "iconator dot com!"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "green stars",
          "text \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027"
        ],
        "actions": [
          "stars orbit text"
        ],
        "objects": [
          "black background",
          "gray square"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "black",
          "white",
          "green",
          "gray"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "low-resolution",
          "retro digital"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "grid layout with four text-star groupings per frame",
          "one gray square at bottom right corner"
        ],
        "mood": [],
        "animation": [
          "stars move clockwise around each text instance across observations"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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 collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: holidays",
          "provenance topic-coverage: humor"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "2007-2016",
          "franksicons",
          "200803221140441767049883"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "Green stars orbit clockwise around four instances of \u0027iconator dot com!\u0027 text across sequential observations.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "green star icon",
          "text iconator dot com",
          "clockwise moving stars",
          "pixelated black background"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200803221140441767049883
Archive entry
200803221140441767049883.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803221140441767049883.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803221140441767049883.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016