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Red background with repeated text and star shapes, showing animated star positions changing across frames.

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Red background with repeated text and star shapes, showing animated star positions changing across frames.

Red background with repeated text and star shapes, showing animated star positions changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change across frames

Animation Summary

  • White and pink star shapes animate across frames, changing positions while text remains static.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star positions change
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red background with repeated text "Edwards Because Real Guys 'SPARKLE!'" in black pixelated font. White and pink star shapes animate across frames: white stars appear and disappear at different positions, pink stars remain static in some frames. Text is arranged in rows with consistent spacing. The rightmost column shows a gray rectangular area in the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Red background with repeated text and star shapes, showing animated star positions changing across frames.

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
  • 20080730134144379191476
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text repeats
  • star animation

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background star animation
  • Edwards Because Real Guys SPARKLE text
  • pixelated text star animation
  • repeated text star positions

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle in bottom-right may be a crop artifact
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but is not authoritative

Visible Text

  • Edwards Because Real Guys 'SPARKLE!'

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white star shapes
  • pink star shapes
  • text repeats
  • star animation
  • gray rectangle
  • text: Edwards Because Real Guys 'SPARKLE!'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080730134144379191476
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c0/c04f509708ed31fd249d94407d0a46abab2baa17915a42ebb61a9fd03e551be4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
c04f509708ed31fd
SHA-256
c04f509708ed31fd249d94407d0a46abab2baa17915a42ebb61a9fd03e551be4
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 23:39 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001154

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.181800

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with repeated text and star shapes, showing animated star positions changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,119, response 714

Review tags

  • stars animate (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars animate

Animation

  • star positions change across frames

Animation Summary

  • White and pink star shapes animate across frames, changing positions while text remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star positions change
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red background with repeated text "Edwards Because Real Guys 'SPARKLE!'" in black pixelated font. White and pink star shapes animate across frames: white stars appear and disappear at different positions, pink stars remain static in some frames. Text is arranged in rows with consistent spacing. The rightmost column shows a gray rectangular area in the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Red background with repeated text and star shapes, showing animated star positions changing across frames.

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
  • 20080730134144379191476
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text repeats
  • star animation

Mood

  • playful
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background star animation
  • Edwards Because Real Guys SPARKLE text
  • pixelated text star animation
  • repeated text star positions

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle in bottom-right may be a crop artifact
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but is not authoritative

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Edwards Because Real Guys 'SPARKLE!'

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white star shapes
  • pink star shapes
  • text repeats
  • star animation
  • gray rectangle
  • text: Edwards Because Real Guys 'SPARKLE!'
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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
20080730134144379191476
Archive entry
20080730134144379191476.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080730134144379191476.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080730134144379191476.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016