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A black background filled with scattered light yellow stars of varying sizes, some appearing blurred or faded.

A black background filled with scattered light yellow stars of varying sizes, some appearing blurred or faded. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • no central focus
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of multiple five-pointed stars against a solid black background. Stars are distributed across the frame in various sizes: small (approximately 10-20 pixels wide), medium (30-50 pixels wide), and large (60+ pixels wide). All stars have a light yellow color with soft, blurred edges creating a glowing effect; no sharp outlines or internal details are visible. The background is uniformly black with no gradients or additional elements. No text, symbols beyond the star shapes, or motion indicators appear in the image.

Description

  • A black background filled with scattered light yellow stars of varying sizes, some appearing blurred or faded.

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
  • 20071212141128367943797

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background light yellow stars
  • scattered five-pointed stars
  • blurred glowing stars black background
  • light yellow star pattern

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light yellow stars
  • five-pointed
  • various sizes
  • blurred edges
  • glowing effect

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071212141128367943797
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
e390a9ffa3ea97f3
SHA-256
e390a9ffa3ea97f36a9ce3085880476138365c250dc8cd087e7abff3268e4b4b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104743

OpenAI category scores

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A black background filled with scattered light yellow stars of varying sizes, some appearing blurred or faded.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:23 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,862 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 621

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • dreamy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light yellow

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • no central focus
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of multiple five-pointed stars against a solid black background. Stars are distributed across the frame in various sizes: small (approximately 10-20 pixels wide), medium (30-50 pixels wide), and large (60+ pixels wide). All stars have a light yellow color with soft, blurred edges creating a glowing effect; no sharp outlines or internal details are visible. The background is uniformly black with no gradients or additional elements. No text, symbols beyond the star shapes, or motion indicators appear in the image.

Description

  • A black background filled with scattered light yellow stars of varying sizes, some appearing blurred or faded.

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
  • 20071212141128367943797

Mood

  • calming
  • dreamy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background light yellow stars
  • scattered five-pointed stars
  • blurred glowing stars black background
  • light yellow star pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • stars

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light yellow stars
  • five-pointed
  • various sizes
  • blurred edges
  • glowing effect
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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
20071212141128367943797
Archive entry
20071212141128367943797.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071212141128367943797.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071212141128367943797.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016