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Blue background with yellow stars and green text repeating 'are you free' in pixelated font.

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Blue background with yellow stars and green text repeating 'are you free' in pixelated font.

Blue background with yellow stars and green text repeating 'are you free' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars on solid background
  • repeating text segments

Dense Caption

The image features a solid blue background overlaid with multiple yellow five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Green pixelated text reading 'are you free' repeats horizontally across the image, appearing at least twice in full visible segments. The stars are scattered without uniform spacing and have soft edges suggesting slight blurring or low resolution. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow stars and green text repeating 'are you free' in 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 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
  • 200709211642441029135783

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow stars green text
  • are you free pixelated text
  • retro digital star pattern
  • repeating 'are you free' text

Visible Text

  • are you free

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow five-pointed stars
  • green pixelated text
  • 'are you free' repeated
  • soft-edged stars
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211642441029135783
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ede5e47598caa27d24c11b78c2e7cdedd596bfd444c41f981bf2ee3a09b1f8ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
ede5e47598caa27d
SHA-256
ede5e47598caa27d24c11b78c2e7cdedd596bfd444c41f981bf2ee3a09b1f8ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.207119

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with yellow stars and green text repeating 'are you free' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,144 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 635

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • scattered stars on solid background
  • repeating text segments

Dense Caption

The image features a solid blue background overlaid with multiple yellow five-pointed stars of varying sizes. Green pixelated text reading 'are you free' repeats horizontally across the image, appearing at least twice in full visible segments. The stars are scattered without uniform spacing and have soft edges suggesting slight blurring or low resolution. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow stars and green text repeating 'are you free' in 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 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
  • 200709211642441029135783

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow stars green text
  • are you free pixelated text
  • retro digital star pattern
  • repeating 'are you free' text

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • are you free

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow five-pointed stars
  • green pixelated text
  • 'are you free' repeated
  • soft-edged stars
  • retro digital font
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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
200709211642441029135783
Archive entry
200709211642441029135783.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709211642441029135783.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709211642441029135783.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016