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Red background with yellow stars and blue text BF4L repeated four times.

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Red background with yellow stars and blue text BF4L repeated four times.

Red background with yellow stars and blue text BF4L repeated four times. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars on red field
  • four text instances distributed across corners

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background overlaid with multiple yellow five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the exact text 'BF4L' appear in bright blue, pixelated font: one near the top-left, one near the top-right, one near the bottom-left, and one near the bottom-right. The stars are scattered across the red field without a specific pattern.

Description

  • Red background with yellow stars and blue text BF4L repeated four times.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow stars BF4L
  • yellow stars blue text BF4L
  • four BF4L red background
  • BF4L scattered stars

Visible Text

  • BF4L

Visually Supported Entities

  • BF4L

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow five-pointed stars
  • blue text BF4L
  • four instances of 'BF4L'
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081130112535270768238
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
ccb374a0d8dadf59
SHA-256
ccb374a0d8dadf59cf991fe50f0a888390e039b2e16151f52aa60f5f2ce7d80e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077803

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with yellow stars and blue text BF4L repeated four times.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,879 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 561

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • scattered stars on red field
  • four text instances distributed across corners

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background overlaid with multiple yellow five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Four instances of the exact text 'BF4L' appear in bright blue, pixelated font: one near the top-left, one near the top-right, one near the bottom-left, and one near the bottom-right. The stars are scattered across the red field without a specific pattern.

Description

  • Red background with yellow stars and blue text BF4L repeated four times.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow stars BF4L
  • yellow stars blue text BF4L
  • four BF4L red background
  • BF4L scattered stars

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • BF4L

Visually Supported Entities

  • BF4L

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow five-pointed stars
  • blue text BF4L
  • four instances of 'BF4L'
  • pixelated font
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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
20081130112535270768238
Archive entry
20081130112535270768238.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081130112535270768238.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081130112535270768238.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016