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Pixelated star-shaped icons in multiple colors on a black background, arranged in a scattered composition with no visible text or animation.

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Pixelated star-shaped icons in multiple colors on a black background, arranged in a scattered composition with no visible text or animation.

Pixelated star-shaped icons in multiple colors on a black background, arranged in a scattered composition with no visible text or animation. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered
  • non-symmetrical
  • multiple stars
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image contains seven distinct star-shaped icons rendered in a pixelated style against a solid black background. Six stars are fully visible: one yellow at the top center, one blue on the left, one green on the right, one yellow in the center, one purple at the bottom left, and one brown at the bottom right. A seventh yellow star is partially visible at the bottom center. All stars have hollow centers and are outlined with a single-pixel border. The stars are arranged in a scattered, non-symmetrical composition with no overlapping elements. The color palette includes yellow, blue, green, purple, and brown. The image shows no text, animation, or additional objects.

Description

  • Pixelated star-shaped icons in multiple colors on a black background, arranged in a scattered composition with no visible text or animation.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated star icons
  • multiple colored stars
  • hollow star shapes
  • black background stars
  • scattered star arrangement
  • yellow blue green purple brown stars
  • no text star icons
  • pixelated hollow stars

Subjects

  • star

Wordwall

  • star-shaped icons
  • pixelated rendering
  • black background
  • yellow stars
  • blue star
  • green star
  • purple star
  • brown star
  • hollow centers
  • single-pixel borders
  • scattered arrangement
  • no text
  • no animation
  • seven stars visible
  • partial star bottom center

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080227134042189493020
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/ca2293deef36b53731b48dc552919d290a931b8ff5bbdb4a2553193f4abb5b43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
ca2293deef36b537
SHA-256
ca2293deef36b53731b48dc552919d290a931b8ff5bbdb4a2553193f4abb5b43
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081092

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated star-shaped icons in multiple colors on a black background, arranged in a scattered composition with no visible text or animation.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,106 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 736

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • hollow (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • outlined (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • brown

Composition

  • scattered
  • non-symmetrical
  • multiple stars
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image contains seven distinct star-shaped icons rendered in a pixelated style against a solid black background. Six stars are fully visible: one yellow at the top center, one blue on the left, one green on the right, one yellow in the center, one purple at the bottom left, and one brown at the bottom right. A seventh yellow star is partially visible at the bottom center. All stars have hollow centers and are outlined with a single-pixel border. The stars are arranged in a scattered, non-symmetrical composition with no overlapping elements. The color palette includes yellow, blue, green, purple, and brown. The image shows no text, animation, or additional objects.

Description

  • Pixelated star-shaped icons in multiple colors on a black background, arranged in a scattered composition with no visible text or animation.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated star icons
  • multiple colored stars
  • hollow star shapes
  • black background stars
  • scattered star arrangement
  • yellow blue green purple brown stars
  • no text star icons
  • pixelated hollow stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • hollow
  • outlined

Subjects

  • star

Wordwall

  • star-shaped icons
  • pixelated rendering
  • black background
  • yellow stars
  • blue star
  • green star
  • purple star
  • brown star
  • hollow centers
  • single-pixel borders
  • scattered arrangement
  • no text
  • no animation
  • seven stars visible
  • partial star bottom center
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
56
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
20080227134042189493020
Archive entry
20080227134042189493020.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080227134042189493020.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080227134042189493020.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016