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Black background with white pixelated lines and star-like shapes forming a symmetrical pattern.

Black background with white pixelated lines and star-like shapes forming a symmetrical pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered symmetry
  • aligned elements

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated elements: vertical dashed lines at top center, bottom center, left center, right center; horizontal dotted lines at middle-left, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-right; four corner stars (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right); central cross of four star-like shapes with smaller surrounding pixels. All white on black.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated lines and star-like shapes forming a symmetrical pattern.

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 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
  • 20071007100202474966162

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white pixelated symmetrical pattern
  • white dashed dotted lines stars
  • symmetrical star shapes
  • pixel art black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-aligned elements
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid star shapes

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated elements
  • symmetrical pattern
  • vertical dashed lines
  • horizontal dotted lines
  • corner stars
  • central cross
  • star-like shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071007100202474966162
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
400 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed0bafffeb8003cd43405ece138f0e9f43f19d0188f2d2bb11adb1e5656a2436.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
ed0bafffeb8003cd
SHA-256
ed0bafffeb8003cd43405ece138f0e9f43f19d0188f2d2bb11adb1e5656a2436
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 01:48 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109104

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white pixelated lines and star-like shapes forming a symmetrical pattern.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:03 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,413 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 592

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered symmetry
  • aligned elements

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated elements: vertical dashed lines at top center, bottom center, left center, right center; horizontal dotted lines at middle-left, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-right; four corner stars (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right); central cross of four star-like shapes with smaller surrounding pixels. All white on black.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated lines and star-like shapes forming a symmetrical pattern.

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 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
  • 20071007100202474966162

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white pixelated symmetrical pattern
  • white dashed dotted lines stars
  • symmetrical star shapes
  • pixel art black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-aligned elements
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid star shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • symmetrical

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated elements
  • symmetrical pattern
  • vertical dashed lines
  • horizontal dotted lines
  • corner stars
  • central cross
  • star-like shapes
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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
20071007100202474966162
Archive entry
20071007100202474966162.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071007100202474966162.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071007100202474966162.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016