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Yellow star on pink background with black text 'brooklyn' and 'litchy' overlaid, featuring a '<3' symbol and pixelated text variations.

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Yellow star on pink background with black text 'brooklyn' and 'litchy' overlaid, featuring a '<3' symbol and pixelated text variations.

Yellow star on pink background with black text 'brooklyn' and 'litchy' overlaid, featuring a '<3' symbol and pixelated text variations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across frames; static image with pixelated text and star.

Composition

  • centered star
  • text above and below star
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Yellow five-pointed star centered on solid pink background. Black text 'brooklyn' positioned above the star, 'litchy' below it, both with pixelated distortion. '<3' symbol in black below 'litchy'. Text and star exhibit slight pixelation and color bleeding. Four identical frames show no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Yellow star on pink background with black text 'brooklyn' and 'litchy' overlaid, featuring a '<3' symbol and pixelated text variations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star pink background
  • brooklyn litchy <3
  • pixelated text star
  • black text pink background
  • star <3 symbol
  • text distortion yellow star
  • litchy brooklyn <3
  • pink background star

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • brooklyn
  • litchy
  • <3

Wordwall

  • yellow star
  • pink background
  • black text
  • brooklyn
  • litchy
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated text
  • solid background
  • five-pointed star
  • text distortion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070819133512214916138
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c1/c117b3e49f6c37a271967add8732e868834d879e7d30cb18ebf1d1ca5ebd76c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
c117b3e49f6c37a2
SHA-256
c117b3e49f6c37a271967add8732e868834d879e7d30cb18ebf1d1ca5ebd76c0
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 11:50 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019894

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow star on pink background with black text 'brooklyn' and 'litchy' overlaid, featuring a '<3' symbol and pixelated text variations.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,562 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 683

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text over star (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across frames; static image with pixelated text and star.

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • centered star
  • text above and below star
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Yellow five-pointed star centered on solid pink background. Black text 'brooklyn' positioned above the star, 'litchy' below it, both with pixelated distortion. '<3' symbol in black below 'litchy'. Text and star exhibit slight pixelation and color bleeding. Four identical frames show no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Yellow star on pink background with black text 'brooklyn' and 'litchy' overlaid, featuring a '<3' symbol and pixelated text variations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star pink background
  • brooklyn litchy <3
  • pixelated text star
  • black text pink background
  • star <3 symbol
  • text distortion yellow star
  • litchy brooklyn <3
  • pink background star

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-over-star
  • distorted

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • brooklyn
  • litchy
  • <3

Wordwall

  • yellow star
  • pink background
  • black text
  • brooklyn
  • litchy
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated text
  • solid background
  • five-pointed star
  • text distortion
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:12 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)
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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
20070819133512214916138
Archive entry
20070819133512214916138.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070819133512214916138.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070819133512214916138.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016