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Pixelated text and pink stars on black background with animated star positions changing across frames.

Pixelated text and pink stars on black background with animated star positions changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change
  • star count varies

Animation Summary

  • Stars move between corners and appear/disappear across frames while text remains static.

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "Sydney" at top, "Jake" below it, and "ferer!" at bottom. Pink four-pointed stars appear in four corners and scattered across the background. In the first frame, stars are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. In the second frame, the bottom-left star moves to the bottom-right, and a new star appears at the bottom-left. In the third frame, the bottom-right star moves to the bottom-left, and a new star appears at the bottom-right. In the fourth frame, the bottom-left star moves to the bottom-right, and a new star appears at the bottom-left. The text remains static throughout all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and pink stars on black background with animated star positions changing 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 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
  • 20080825200453567784341

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sydney jake ferer! pink stars
  • pixelated text black background
  • animated stars four corners
  • sydney jake ferer! black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected

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

Visible Text

  • Sydney
  • Jake
  • ferer!

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • pink four-pointed stars
  • text: Sydney
  • text: Jake
  • text: ferer!
  • stars move between corners
  • stars appear and disappear
  • four corners have stars
  • text remains static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080825200453567784341
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed45d78b679aee5d2526709ca50e34f4916ed3ab3f890eecf6435f1aa8322032.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
ed45d78b679aee5d
SHA-256
ed45d78b679aee5d2526709ca50e34f4916ed3ab3f890eecf6435f1aa8322032
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096343

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and pink stars on black background with animated star positions changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,004 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 896

Review tags

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  • stars disappear (action, 0.80)
  • stars move (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move
  • stars appear
  • stars disappear

Animation

  • star positions change
  • star count varies

Animation Summary

  • Stars move between corners and appear/disappear across frames while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "Sydney" at top, "Jake" below it, and "ferer!" at bottom. Pink four-pointed stars appear in four corners and scattered across the background. In the first frame, stars are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. In the second frame, the bottom-left star moves to the bottom-right, and a new star appears at the bottom-left. In the third frame, the bottom-right star moves to the bottom-left, and a new star appears at the bottom-right. In the fourth frame, the bottom-left star moves to the bottom-right, and a new star appears at the bottom-left. The text remains static throughout all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and pink stars on black background with animated star positions changing 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 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
  • 20080825200453567784341

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sydney jake ferer! pink stars
  • pixelated text black background
  • animated stars four corners
  • sydney jake ferer! black background

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • 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
  • animated

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Sydney
  • Jake
  • ferer!

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • pink four-pointed stars
  • text: Sydney
  • text: Jake
  • text: ferer!
  • stars move between corners
  • stars appear and disappear
  • four corners have stars
  • text remains static
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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
20080825200453567784341
Archive entry
20080825200453567784341.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080825200453567784341.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080825200453567784341.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016