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Pixelated image of Darth Vader's helmet with red text 'Star Wars' and '<3' on black background.

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Pixelated image of Darth Vader's helmet with red text 'Star Wars' and '<3' on black background.

Pixelated image of Darth Vader's helmet with red text 'Star Wars' and '<3' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • helmet centered left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-left
  • text bottom-right

Dense Caption

Darth Vader's helmet rendered in low-resolution pixel art with dark gray and white tones on a black background. Red pixelated text 'Star' appears top-right, 'Wars' appears bottom-left, and '<3' appears bottom-right. The helmet shows a smooth curved top, side vents, and a mouth grille. The image has no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of Darth Vader's helmet with red text 'Star Wars' and '<3' on black background.

Fandoms

  • Star Wars

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

Named Entities

  • Darth Vader

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Darth Vader Star Wars pixel art
  • Star Wars helmet red text
  • Darth Vader helmet black background
  • Star Wars text '<3'

Visible Text

  • Star
  • Wars
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Darth Vader

Wordwall

  • Darth Vader
  • Star Wars
  • pixel art
  • red text
  • black background
  • <3
  • helmet
  • low-resolution
  • text 'Star'
  • text 'Wars'
  • text '<3'

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070827163920970148052
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe8dc1585c5a99834bf72706b0f57370fd71ec0fb8ff243e4d0e3fb04843b233.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
fe8dc1585c5a9983
SHA-256
fe8dc1585c5a99834bf72706b0f57370fd71ec0fb8ff243e4d0e3fb04843b233
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
1346
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000493

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 18:12 UTC
Run
1191
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of Darth Vader's helmet with red text 'Star Wars' and '<3' on black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,108 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 583

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • darth vader (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • red

Composition

  • helmet centered left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-left
  • text bottom-right

Dense Caption

Darth Vader's helmet rendered in low-resolution pixel art with dark gray and white tones on a black background. Red pixelated text 'Star' appears top-right, 'Wars' appears bottom-left, and '<3' appears bottom-right. The helmet shows a smooth curved top, side vents, and a mouth grille. The image has no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of Darth Vader's helmet with red text 'Star Wars' and '<3' on black background.

Fandoms

  • Star Wars

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

Mood

  • menacing

Named Entities

  • Darth Vader

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Darth Vader Star Wars pixel art
  • Star Wars helmet red text
  • Darth Vader helmet black background
  • Star Wars text '<3'

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • Darth Vader

Visible Text

  • Star
  • Wars
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Darth Vader

Wordwall

  • Darth Vader
  • Star Wars
  • pixel art
  • red text
  • black background
  • <3
  • helmet
  • low-resolution
  • text 'Star'
  • text 'Wars'
  • text '<3'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070827163920970148052
Archive entry
20070827163920970148052.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070827163920970148052.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070827163920970148052.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016