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Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a pattern

Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • symbols
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white and gray stars; four rows of pink '<3' symbols arranged in a grid pattern; stars vary in size and position across the background; bottom-right corner has a solid gray rectangle; no visible motion or animation changes; all elements are static and pixelated.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background pink symbols
  • stars pink
  • gray rectangle stars
  • pixelated symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid of symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: stars grid pink

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • <3 symbols
  • arrangement
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated
  • static
  • scattered stars
  • pink symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091221172059161833409
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
781 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb82f568503b568b5424bf78365b1472a52f68c95c17506f724eddec7f7c4616.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
fb82f568503b568b
SHA-256
fb82f568503b568b5424bf78365b1472a52f68c95c17506f724eddec7f7c4616
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 08:55 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001146

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.138048

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,662 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 527

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • arrangement (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • scattered stars
  • symbols
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered white and gray stars; four rows of pink '<3' symbols arranged in a grid pattern; stars vary in size and position across the background; bottom-right corner has a solid gray rectangle; no visible motion or animation changes; all elements are static and pixelated.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background pink symbols
  • stars pink
  • gray rectangle stars
  • pixelated symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered white and gray stars and pink '<3' symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid of symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: stars grid pink

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • arrangement

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • <3 symbols
  • arrangement
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated
  • static
  • scattered stars
  • pink symbols
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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
20091221172059161833409
Archive entry
20091221172059161833409.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091221172059161833409.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091221172059161833409.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016