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Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift position across frames.

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Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift position across frames.

Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • starbursts shift position

Animation Summary

  • Starbursts shift position across frames.

Composition

  • scattered
  • no central focus

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift position across frames. Starbursts vary in size and brightness, with some appearing as small dots and others as larger, more defined bursts. The starbursts move slightly between frames, creating a subtle animated effect. No text or additional elements are visible.

Description

  • Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100323150225386214286

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow starbursts
  • scattered starbursts animation
  • yellow orange starbursts red background
  • subtle starburst animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow-orange starbursts
  • scattered starbursts
  • subtle animation
  • starburst size variation
  • starburst brightness variation
  • no text
  • no additional elements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100323150225386214286
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e596a5317b43fc5d91c0890ac8b358786c87708aa08032a5ef4e393cee0f1933.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
e596a5317b43fc5d
SHA-256
e596a5317b43fc5d91c0890ac8b358786c87708aa08032a5ef4e393cee0f1933
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072513

OpenAI category scores

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

Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift position across frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,664 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 774

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle (mood, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • starbursts shift position

Animation

  • starbursts shift position

Animation Summary

  • Starbursts shift position across frames.

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • scattered
  • no central focus

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift position across frames. Starbursts vary in size and brightness, with some appearing as small dots and others as larger, more defined bursts. The starbursts move slightly between frames, creating a subtle animated effect. No text or additional elements are visible.

Description

  • Red background with scattered yellow-orange starburst shapes that shift 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100323150225386214286

Mood

  • calm
  • subtle

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • scattered starbursts animation
  • yellow orange starbursts red background
  • subtle starburst animation

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow-orange starbursts
  • scattered starbursts
  • subtle animation
  • starburst size variation
  • starburst brightness variation
  • no text
  • no additional elements
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:24 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)
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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
20100323150225386214286
Archive entry
20100323150225386214286.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100323150225386214286.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100323150225386214286.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016