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Yellow background with white pixelated text and star shapes scattered across the image.

Yellow background with white pixelated text and star shapes scattered across the image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • pattern
  • text and stars scattered

Dense Caption

Yellow background with white pixelated text reading 'sparkle' repeated four times in a grid pattern; white pixelated star shapes of varying sizes scattered across the background; no visible motion or animation changes; text and stars maintain consistent positions and appearance throughout the image; all elements rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Yellow background with white pixelated text and star shapes scattered across the image.

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

  • yellow sparkle text
  • pixelated star background
  • retro digital text
  • sparkle pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: sparkle grid pattern

Visible Text

  • sparkle

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • white text
  • sparkle text
  • pixelated stars
  • pattern
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • no animation
  • four text instances
  • star shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080627075003450793863
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
568 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd4de8e8ae29b327e46d71ff213f2aa15ec7599ee446fe9ba618232973827176.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
fd4de8e8ae29b327
SHA-256
fd4de8e8ae29b327e46d71ff213f2aa15ec7599ee446fe9ba618232973827176
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130306

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow background with white pixelated text and star shapes scattered across the image.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,455 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 536

Review tags

  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • pattern
  • text and stars scattered

Dense Caption

Yellow background with white pixelated text reading 'sparkle' repeated four times in a grid pattern; white pixelated star shapes of varying sizes scattered across the background; no visible motion or animation changes; text and stars maintain consistent positions and appearance throughout the image; all elements rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Yellow background with white pixelated text and star shapes scattered across the image.

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

  • yellow sparkle text
  • pixelated star background
  • retro digital text
  • sparkle pattern

Objects

  • star shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: sparkle grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • sparkle

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • white text
  • sparkle text
  • pixelated stars
  • pattern
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • no animation
  • four text instances
  • star shapes
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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
20080627075003450793863
Archive entry
20080627075003450793863.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080627075003450793863.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080627075003450793863.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016