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A four- displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one showing a black star and another a yellow star

A four- displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one showing a black star and another a yellow star. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star changes from black to yellow

Animation Summary

  • The star changes color from black to yellow between

Composition

  • four
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid. Top-left panel: yellow background with white text '-subriina', white pixelated face '(:', and a black pixelated star. Top-right panel: olive background with white text '-subriina' and white pixelated face '(:'. Bottom-left panel: black background with white text '-subriina', white pixelated face '(:', and a yellow pixelated star. Bottom-right panel: olive background with white text '-subriina' and white pixelated face '(:'. The star in the bottom-left panel is yellow; the star in the top-left panel is black. All other text and symbols are identical across panels.

Description

  • A four- displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one showing a black star and another a yellow star

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • -subriina star yellow
  • -subriina star black
  • yellow background star
  • olive background star
  • black background star
  • pixelated star animation
  • four star
  • star color change

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one panel showing a black star and another a yellow star.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The star changes color from black to yellow between panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel star

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • -subriina
  • (:

Wordwall

  • -subriina
  • (:
  • yellow background
  • olive background
  • black background
  • black star
  • yellow star
  • pixelated text
  • pixelated face
  • four

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812301824392119903230
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9532eadfd588a93c13df471035a7c07fac48815eaf2b891660c2ce15a465b15.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
f9532eadfd588a93
SHA-256
f9532eadfd588a93c13df471035a7c07fac48815eaf2b891660c2ce15a465b15
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093080

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921467onnx/unsafe0.093080onnx/nsfw0.052133onnx/nsfl0.040947
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A four- displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one showing a black star and another a yellow star

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,673 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 721

Review tags

  • star changes color (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • olive (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star changes from black to yellow (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star changes color

Animation

  • star changes from black to yellow

Animation Summary

  • The star changes color from black to yellow between

Colors

  • yellow
  • olive
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid. Top-left panel: yellow background with white text '-subriina', white pixelated face '(:', and a black pixelated star. Top-right panel: olive background with white text '-subriina' and white pixelated face '(:'. Bottom-left panel: black background with white text '-subriina', white pixelated face '(:', and a yellow pixelated star. Bottom-right panel: olive background with white text '-subriina' and white pixelated face '(:'. The star in the bottom-left panel is yellow; the star in the top-left panel is black. All other text and symbols are identical across panels.

Description

  • A four- displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one showing a black star and another a yellow star

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • -subriina star yellow
  • -subriina star black
  • yellow background star
  • olive background star
  • black background star
  • pixelated star animation
  • four star
  • star color change

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid displays pixelated text and symbols on colored backgrounds with one panel showing a black star and another a yellow star.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The star changes color from black to yellow between panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel star

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • -subriina
  • (:

Wordwall

  • -subriina
  • (:
  • yellow background
  • olive background
  • black background
  • black star
  • yellow star
  • pixelated text
  • pixelated face
  • four
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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
200812301824392119903230
Archive entry
200812301824392119903230.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812301824392119903230.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812301824392119903230.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016