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Pixelated text 'whats up' repeated across black background with yellow stars, some stars animated to change position.

Pixelated text 'whats up' repeated across black background with yellow stars, some stars animated to change position. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars shift position across three of 'whats up' text on black background

Composition

  • three of text
  • stars scattered
  • gray block on right

Dense Caption

Black background with repeated white pixelated text 'whats up' in three rows. Yellow stars appear in multiple positions across the image; some stars shift location between observations. Stars are small, five-pointed, and vary in brightness. The rightmost row contains a solid gray rectangular block. Text is consistently rendered in lowercase with no punctuation. Animation shows stars moving to new positions in different rows. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'whats up' repeated across black background with yellow stars, some stars animated to change position.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20090609003316309338307

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • whats up text stars
  • yellow stars black background
  • pixelated text animation
  • gray block stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • quarantined animationSummary: Yellow stars shift position across three rows of 'whats up' text on black background.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • whats up

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • yellow stars
  • repeated 'whats up'
  • stars move
  • gray block
  • lowercase text
  • no punctuation
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090609003316309338307
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
880 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c8/c874233ce981ce694a978d153fddadf5a9627b282d3eefe164f25a8556a0a77a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
c874233ce981ce69
SHA-256
c874233ce981ce694a978d153fddadf5a9627b282d3eefe164f25a8556a0a77a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 22:46 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000594

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090891

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'whats up' repeated across black background with yellow stars, some stars animated to change position.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,262 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 807

Review tags

  • stars move (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray block (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move

Animation

  • stars shift position

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars shift position across three of 'whats up' text on black background

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • three of text
  • stars scattered
  • gray block on right

Dense Caption

Black background with repeated white pixelated text 'whats up' in three rows. Yellow stars appear in multiple positions across the image; some stars shift location between observations. Stars are small, five-pointed, and vary in brightness. The rightmost row contains a solid gray rectangular block. Text is consistently rendered in lowercase with no punctuation. Animation shows stars moving to new positions in different rows. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'whats up' repeated across black background with yellow stars, some stars animated to change position.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20090609003316309338307

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • casual
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • whats up text stars
  • yellow stars black background
  • pixelated text animation
  • gray block stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text
  • gray block

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • quarantined animationSummary: Yellow stars shift position across three rows of 'whats up' text on black background.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • whats up

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • yellow stars
  • repeated 'whats up'
  • stars move
  • gray block
  • lowercase text
  • no punctuation
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
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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
20090609003316309338307
Archive entry
20090609003316309338307.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090609003316309338307.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090609003316309338307.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016