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Yellow pixelated text and a star on a black background, with partial text visible on the left side.

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Yellow pixelated text and a star on a black background, with partial text visible on the left side.

Yellow pixelated text and a star on a black background, with partial text visible on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in vertical blocks
  • star positioned to the right of partial text

Dense Caption

Black background with yellow pixelated text. Top-right text reads 'look at the stars'. Left-center text reads 'look how they shine for'. Right-center text reads 'you'. Left side has partial text '<3 Always' followed by a yellow star. Text is rendered in a retro digital font. The star is a five-pointed yellow shape. All text and the star are static.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text and a star on a black background, with partial text visible on the left side.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star black background
  • look at the stars look how they shine for you
  • <3 Always star
  • pixelated text retro font

Objects

  • star

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • look at the stars
  • look how they shine for
  • you
  • <3 Always

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • five-pointed star
  • retro digital font
  • look at the stars
  • look how they shine for
  • you
  • <3 Always

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070812205803246426764
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d3/d363889276e6ce57dc91806a8e0618f5c329199b22bad75cca1ae47e356041b2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
d363889276e6ce57
SHA-256
d363889276e6ce57dc91806a8e0618f5c329199b22bad75cca1ae47e356041b2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:35 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102365

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow pixelated text and a star on a black background, with partial text visible on the left side.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,766 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • text arranged in vertical blocks
  • star positioned to the right of partial text

Dense Caption

Black background with yellow pixelated text. Top-right text reads 'look at the stars'. Left-center text reads 'look how they shine for'. Right-center text reads 'you'. Left side has partial text '<3 Always' followed by a yellow star. Text is rendered in a retro digital font. The star is a five-pointed yellow shape. All text and the star are static.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text and a star on a black background, with partial text visible on the left side.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow star black background
  • look at the stars look how they shine for you
  • <3 Always star
  • pixelated text retro font

Objects

  • star

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • look at the stars
  • look how they shine for
  • you
  • <3 Always

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • five-pointed star
  • retro digital font
  • look at the stars
  • look how they shine for
  • you
  • <3 Always
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
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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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
20070812205803246426764
Archive entry
20070812205803246426764.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070812205803246426764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070812205803246426764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016