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Black background with colorful star shapes and white text reading "Taylor Carolyn and are... swell!" in a pixelated font.

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Black background with colorful star shapes and white text reading "Taylor Carolyn and are... swell!" in a pixelated font.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in top-left, top-right, middle-left, lower-middle, bottom-center positions
  • stars scattered across background

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multicolored stars (red, yellow, green, blue, purple) of varying sizes. White pixelated text reads "Taylor" top-left, "Carolyn" top-right, "and" middle-left, "are..." lower-middle, and "swell!" bottom-center. Stars are scattered across the background with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with colorful star shapes and white text reading "Taylor Carolyn and are... swell!" in a pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080321153049633328389

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Taylor Carolyn and are swell stars
  • pixelated text black background multicolored stars
  • black background white pixelated text stars
  • stars colorful text Taylor Carolyn

Visible Text

  • Taylor
  • Carolyn
  • and
  • are...
  • swell!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • multicolored stars
  • white pixelated text
  • Taylor Carolyn
  • and are...
  • swell!
  • star shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080321153049633328389
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
d31559bc2bf189ed
SHA-256
d31559bc2bf189ed9c3ca9f5799c19875ea9e4cf73592f3fc9248573e47bf19b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078232

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with colorful star shapes and white text reading "Taylor Carolyn and are... swell!" in a pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:09 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,937 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 639

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • text arranged in top-left, top-right, middle-left, lower-middle, bottom-center positions
  • stars scattered across background

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multicolored stars (red, yellow, green, blue, purple) of varying sizes. White pixelated text reads "Taylor" top-left, "Carolyn" top-right, "and" middle-left, "are..." lower-middle, and "swell!" bottom-center. Stars are scattered across the background with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with colorful star shapes and white text reading "Taylor Carolyn and are... swell!" in a pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080321153049633328389

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Taylor Carolyn and are swell stars
  • pixelated text black background multicolored stars
  • black background white pixelated text stars
  • stars colorful text Taylor Carolyn

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • Taylor
  • Carolyn
  • and
  • are...
  • swell!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • multicolored stars
  • white pixelated text
  • Taylor Carolyn
  • and are...
  • swell!
  • star shapes
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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
20080321153049633328389
Archive entry
20080321153049633328389.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080321153049633328389.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080321153049633328389.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016