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Pixel art animation of 'follow the stars' text with white stars moving across a black background, stars shift position in each frame.

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Pixel art animation of 'follow the stars' text with white stars moving across a black background, stars shift position in each frame.

Pixel art animation of 'follow the stars' text with white stars moving across a black background, stars shift position in each frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change
  • stars move left to right
  • stars move top to bottom

Animation Summary

  • Star positions change across frames: stars move left to right and top to bottom while text remains fixed.

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'follow the stars' in three lines. Multiple white star icons appear in varying positions across frames: some stars are static, others move left to right or top to bottom. The text remains fixed while star positions change. The animation consists of at least four distinct star arrangements. A gray rectangular area appears in the bottom-right corner of the final frame. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixel art animation of 'follow the stars' text with white stars moving across a black background, stars shift position in each frame.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • follow the stars pixel art
  • white stars black background
  • star movement animation
  • buddy icon stars text
  • pixel art animation stars
  • text follow the stars
  • low-resolution star animation
  • gray rectangle star animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle in bottom-right frame is part of the animation sequence

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

  • follow the stars

Wordwall

  • white stars
  • black background
  • follow the stars text
  • pixel art
  • star movement
  • text fixed
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution
  • three-line text
  • star positions vary

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810101430521822196067
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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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/c9/c97fbdd2ab92e0d824a560e522d6bb158d23b12d2a62260523ed237d9b9acb9c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
c97fbdd2ab92e0d8
SHA-256
c97fbdd2ab92e0d824a560e522d6bb158d23b12d2a62260523ed237d9b9acb9c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.084870

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920597onnx/unsafe0.084870onnx/nsfw0.043276onnx/nsfl0.041594
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Pixel art animation of 'follow the stars' text with white stars moving across a black background, stars shift position in each frame.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,217 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 788

Review tags

  • star movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • star positions change (other, 0.80)
  • stars move left to right (other, 0.80)
  • stars move top to bottom (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star movement

Animation

  • star positions change
  • stars move left to right
  • stars move top to bottom

Animation Summary

  • Star positions change across frames: stars move left to right and top to bottom while text remains fixed.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'follow the stars' in three lines. Multiple white star icons appear in varying positions across frames: some stars are static, others move left to right or top to bottom. The text remains fixed while star positions change. The animation consists of at least four distinct star arrangements. A gray rectangular area appears in the bottom-right corner of the final frame. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixel art animation of 'follow the stars' text with white stars moving across a black background, stars shift position in each frame.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • calm
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • follow the stars pixel art
  • white stars black background
  • star movement animation
  • buddy icon stars text
  • pixel art animation stars
  • text follow the stars
  • low-resolution star animation
  • gray rectangle star animation

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle in bottom-right frame is part of the animation sequence

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

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • follow the stars

Wordwall

  • white stars
  • black background
  • follow the stars text
  • pixel art
  • star movement
  • text fixed
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution
  • three-line text
  • star positions vary
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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
200810101430521822196067
Archive entry
200810101430521822196067.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810101430521822196067.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810101430521822196067.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016