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Pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with pink/purple star-like shapes changing position across frames.

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Pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with pink/purple star-like shapes changing position across frames.

Pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with pink/purple star-like shapes changing position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Star positions shift between frames while all other elements remain static.

Composition

  • centered text block
  • bottom-aligned symbols

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays black pixelated text: 'A+A', '4 LIFE', 'I<3333', 'MY BFFL2'. Below text, five small star-like shapes appear in two rows. Left frame shows four pink stars and one purple star; right frame shows three pink stars and two purple stars. Star positions shift between frames while all other elements remain static.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with pink/purple star-like shapes changing position across frames.

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
  • 20080922141419642190701

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art
  • A+A 4 LIFE I<3333 MY BFFL2 text
  • pink purple star shapes animation

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • A+A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<3333
  • MY BFFL2

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • A+A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<3333
  • MY BFFL2
  • pink star shapes
  • purple star shapes
  • five star-like symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080922141419642190701
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
327 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
d3b5e3745abb2d67
SHA-256
d3b5e3745abb2d676d7308d6a8881e84d4f0efc43b5a7a6835a2d75555c85b70
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117588

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with pink/purple star-like shapes changing position across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,859 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 697

Review tags

  • star positions shift between frames (action, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black text characters (object, 0.80)
  • cyan background (object, 0.80)
  • pink star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • purple star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)
  • star shaped symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star positions shift between frames

Animation

  • star positions change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Star positions shift between frames while all other elements remain static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text block
  • bottom-aligned symbols

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays black pixelated text: 'A+A', '4 LIFE', 'I<3333', 'MY BFFL2'. Below text, five small star-like shapes appear in two rows. Left frame shows four pink stars and one purple star; right frame shows three pink stars and two purple stars. Star positions shift between frames while all other elements remain static.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with pink/purple star-like shapes changing position across frames.

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
  • 20080922141419642190701

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art
  • A+A 4 LIFE I<3333 MY BFFL2 text
  • pink purple star shapes animation

Objects

  • cyan background
  • black text characters
  • pink star shapes
  • purple star shapes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • text elements
  • star-shaped symbols

Visible Text

  • A+A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<3333
  • MY BFFL2

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • A+A
  • 4 LIFE
  • I<3333
  • MY BFFL2
  • pink star shapes
  • purple star shapes
  • five star-like symbols
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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
20080922141419642190701
Archive entry
20080922141419642190701.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080922141419642190701.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080922141419642190701.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016