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Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons and repeated text 'ZaraK4' in black pixelated font.

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Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons and repeated text 'ZaraK4' in black pixelated font.

Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons and repeated text 'ZaraK4' in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots

Animation Summary

  • Stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots in a consistent pattern

Composition

  • pattern
  • centered text
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons. Six yellow stars with gray trailing dots and six gray stars with yellow trailing dots are arranged in a grid pattern. Black pixelated text 'ZaraK4' appears in two rows of three, centered between the star icons. The stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots in a consistent pattern across the grid. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons and repeated text 'ZaraK4' in black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow star icons
  • gray star icons trailing dots
  • ZaraK4 pixelated text
  • retro digital pattern
  • blue backdrop pixel art
  • yellow gray star alternation
  • text repetition
  • limited color palette star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots in a consistent grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of text
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: text repetition grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital grid pattern

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • ZaraK4

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow star icons
  • gray star icons
  • trailing dots
  • pixelated text
  • ZaraK4
  • pattern
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
  • six yellow stars
  • six gray stars
  • two of text
  • centered text
  • consistent pattern
  • star shapes
  • dot trails
  • pixel art
  • blue backdrop
  • text repetition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100620235403382930658
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
582 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d6d47c2d644f027b26dbeb03c8820dfaf7461d023804b88df7fae0728e6eb8a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
d6d47c2d644f027b
SHA-256
d6d47c2d644f027b26dbeb03c8820dfaf7461d023804b88df7fae0728e6eb8a6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091742

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons and repeated text 'ZaraK4' in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,657 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 802

Review tags

  • trailing dots (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • limited color palette (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • trailing dots

Animation

  • stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots

Animation Summary

  • Stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots in a consistent pattern

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • pattern
  • centered text
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons. Six yellow stars with gray trailing dots and six gray stars with yellow trailing dots are arranged in a grid pattern. Black pixelated text 'ZaraK4' appears in two rows of three, centered between the star icons. The stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots in a consistent pattern across the grid. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow and gray star-shaped pixel art icons and repeated text 'ZaraK4' in black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow star icons
  • gray star icons trailing dots
  • ZaraK4 pixelated text
  • retro digital pattern
  • blue backdrop pixel art
  • yellow gray star alternation
  • text repetition
  • limited color palette star icons

Objects

  • stars
  • dots
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Stars alternate between yellow and gray with trailing dots in a consistent grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of text
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: text repetition grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital grid pattern

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette

Subjects

  • star icons
  • text

Visible Text

  • ZaraK4

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow star icons
  • gray star icons
  • trailing dots
  • pixelated text
  • ZaraK4
  • pattern
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
  • six yellow stars
  • six gray stars
  • two of text
  • centered text
  • consistent pattern
  • star shapes
  • dot trails
  • pixel art
  • blue backdrop
  • text repetition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:52 UTC
Run
61
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100620235403382930658
Archive entry
20100620235403382930658.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100620235403382930658.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100620235403382930658.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016