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Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'bla...' repeated, plus partial phrases 'not listening' and 'got listening'.

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Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'bla...' repeated, plus partial phrases 'not listening' and 'got listening'.

Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'bla...' repeated, plus partial phrases 'not listening' and 'got listening'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • scattered stars on black background
  • text with 'bla...' and partial phrases

Dense Caption

Black background filled with scattered white five-pointed stars. Yellow pixelated text repeats 'bla...' in multiple rows across the image. Partially visible phrases include 'not listening' and 'got listening', both rendered in yellow pixelated font. The star shapes are consistent, each having a soft blurred edge against the black backdrop.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'bla...' repeated, plus partial phrases 'not listening' and 'got listening'.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200902151901041937329541

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars yellow text
  • bla not listening got listening
  • pixelated star pattern
  • repeated bla text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text rows with 'bla...' and partial phrases

Visible Text

  • bla...
  • not listening
  • got listening

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • yellow text
  • 'bla...' repeated
  • 'not listening'
  • 'got listening'
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902151901041937329541
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cf2597661c545487bc4d7cc130c14fcb2cca4de33a6ca906bb54b487ffc028a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
cf2597661c545487
SHA-256
cf2597661c545487bc4d7cc130c14fcb2cca4de33a6ca906bb54b487ffc028a6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102869

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'bla...' repeated, plus partial phrases 'not listening' and 'got listening'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,911 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 598

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • scattered stars on black background
  • text with 'bla...' and partial phrases

Dense Caption

Black background filled with scattered white five-pointed stars. Yellow pixelated text repeats 'bla...' in multiple rows across the image. Partially visible phrases include 'not listening' and 'got listening', both rendered in yellow pixelated font. The star shapes are consistent, each having a soft blurred edge against the black backdrop.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and yellow text reading 'bla...' repeated, plus partial phrases 'not listening' and 'got listening'.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200902151901041937329541

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white stars yellow text
  • bla not listening got listening
  • pixelated star pattern
  • repeated bla text

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text rows with 'bla...' and partial phrases

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • bla...
  • not listening
  • got listening

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • yellow text
  • 'bla...' repeated
  • 'not listening'
  • 'got listening'
  • 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
200902151901041937329541
Archive entry
200902151901041937329541.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902151901041937329541.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902151901041937329541.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016