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Four identical pink star-shaped icons with cyan text reading 'are you talking to ME?' on a black background.

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Four identical pink star-shaped icons with cyan text reading 'are you talking to ME?' on a black background.

Four identical pink star-shaped icons with cyan text reading 'are you talking to ME?' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all four views show identical static icons.

Composition

  • centered stars
  • text within stars

Dense Caption

Four identical pink star-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each star contains cyan pixelated text reading 'are you talking to ME?' in three lines: 'are you' on the top line, 'talking' on the middle line, and 'to ME?' on the bottom line. The stars have a slightly blurred appearance with visible pixelation. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style. The stars are solid pink with no internal details or gradients.

Description

  • Four identical pink star-shaped icons with cyan text reading 'are you talking to ME?' on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20080706123213557827443

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink star cyan text are you talking to me
  • buddy icon star text
  • retro digital star icon
  • star icons
  • pixel art star text
  • black background star icon
  • are you talking to me star
  • cyan text pink star

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid star icons

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

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • are you talking to ME?

Wordwall

  • four identical pink star icons
  • cyan pixelated text
  • are you talking to ME?
  • black background
  • blocky digital font
  • retro pixel art style
  • solid pink stars
  • text arranged in three lines
  • no internal star details

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080706123213557827443
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f846c004c1b02d5cdd14563ae9c4c36284c273c043e0b12d449c7b5eb032e84b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
f846c004c1b02d5c
SHA-256
f846c004c1b02d5cdd14563ae9c4c36284c273c043e0b12d449c7b5eb032e84b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110301

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical pink star-shaped icons with cyan text reading 'are you talking to ME?' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,644 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 859

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • questioning (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all four views show identical static icons.

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • centered stars
  • text within stars

Dense Caption

Four identical pink star-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each star contains cyan pixelated text reading 'are you talking to ME?' in three lines: 'are you' on the top line, 'talking' on the middle line, and 'to ME?' on the bottom line. The stars have a slightly blurred appearance with visible pixelation. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style. The stars are solid pink with no internal details or gradients.

Description

  • Four identical pink star-shaped icons with cyan text reading 'are you talking to ME?' on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20080706123213557827443

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • questioning

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink star cyan text are you talking to me
  • buddy icon star text
  • retro digital star icon
  • star icons
  • pixel art star text
  • black background star icon
  • are you talking to me star
  • cyan text pink star

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid star icons

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • are you talking to ME?

Wordwall

  • four identical pink star icons
  • cyan pixelated text
  • are you talking to ME?
  • black background
  • blocky digital font
  • retro pixel art style
  • solid pink stars
  • text arranged in three lines
  • no internal star details
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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
20080706123213557827443
Archive entry
20080706123213557827443.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080706123213557827443.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080706123213557827443.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016