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A static image with a beige background featuring scattered stars and repeated text "Car" in black pixelated font.

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A static image with a beige background featuring scattered stars and repeated text "Car" in black pixelated font.

A static image with a beige background featuring scattered stars and repeated text "Car" in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text
  • star patterns
  • beige background

Dense Caption

The image displays a beige background with scattered stars in white, light brown, and pink. There are multiple instances of the text "Car" in black pixelated font, arranged in vertical columns. The stars vary in size and color, with some appearing as small white dots and others as larger light brown or pink stars. The image has a static composition with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a beige background featuring scattered stars and repeated text "Car" in black pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige background star text
  • repeated car text stars
  • pixelated car text beige
  • beige star car text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Visible Text

  • Car

Wordwall

  • beige background
  • white stars
  • light brown stars
  • pink stars
  • black pixelated text
  • repeated "Car" text
  • vertical text
  • star patterns
  • static image
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708311148051509718072
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c5da58cc7f2e1797008df99497091f3f3130da5da20cdeb76a3cb2a62002fbeb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
c5da58cc7f2e1797
SHA-256
c5da58cc7f2e1797008df99497091f3f3130da5da20cdeb76a3cb2a62002fbeb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.054335

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.945665onnx/unsafe0.054335onnx/nsfw0.028778onnx/nsfl0.025557
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a beige background featuring scattered stars and repeated text "Car" in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 581

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • white
  • light brown
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • vertical text
  • star patterns
  • beige background

Dense Caption

The image displays a beige background with scattered stars in white, light brown, and pink. There are multiple instances of the text "Car" in black pixelated font, arranged in vertical columns. The stars vary in size and color, with some appearing as small white dots and others as larger light brown or pink stars. The image has a static composition with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a beige background featuring scattered stars and repeated text "Car" in black pixelated font.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige background star text
  • repeated car text stars
  • pixelated car text beige
  • beige star car text

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Car

Wordwall

  • beige background
  • white stars
  • light brown stars
  • pink stars
  • black pixelated text
  • repeated "Car" text
  • vertical text
  • star patterns
  • static image
  • pixelated font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:46 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
200708311148051509718072
Archive entry
200708311148051509718072.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708311148051509718072.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708311148051509718072.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016