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Blue text repeats 'The stars, they fall for us' across a white background with scattered black and gray stars.

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Blue text repeats 'The stars, they fall for us' across a white background with scattered black and gray stars.

Blue text repeats 'The stars, they fall for us' across a white background with scattered black and gray stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift positions
  • gray rectangle appears

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across frames; gray rectangle appears in bottom-right corner.

Composition

  • four
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue text reads 'The stars, The stars, The stars, The stars, they fall, they fall, they fall, they fall, for us, for us, for us, for us' in four rows. Black and gray stars scatter across the white background. Stars appear in different positions across frames: top-left corner has a black star, top-center has black and gray stars, top-right has gray and black stars. Middle rows show stars shifting left, center, and right. Bottom rows show stars shifting left, center, and right. A gray rectangle covers the bottom-right corner in the final frame.

Description

  • Blue text repeats 'The stars, they fall for us' across a white background with scattered black and gray stars.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090516170121403364626

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text stars fall for us
  • repeating text stars shift
  • gray rectangle stars text
  • text stars shift white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle covers bottom-right corner in final frame
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four rows

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

Visible Text

  • The stars, The stars, The stars, The stars, they fall, they fall, they fall, they fall, for us, for us, for us, for us

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • white background
  • black stars
  • gray stars
  • repeating text
  • four
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
  • text repeats
  • stars shift

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090516170121403364626
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
901 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fec28797f1104a149435eaa8ba64f23289db41f42a0e34438b6529bf2d32f5bf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
fec28797f1104a14
SHA-256
fec28797f1104a149435eaa8ba64f23289db41f42a0e34438b6529bf2d32f5bf
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 13:09 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000537

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.093800

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue text repeats 'The stars, they fall for us' across a white background with scattered black and gray stars.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,842 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 885

Review tags

  • stars shift (action, 0.80)
  • text repeats (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift
  • text repeats

Animation

  • stars shift positions
  • gray rectangle appears

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift positions across frames; gray rectangle appears in bottom-right corner.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue text reads 'The stars, The stars, The stars, The stars, they fall, they fall, they fall, they fall, for us, for us, for us, for us' in four rows. Black and gray stars scatter across the white background. Stars appear in different positions across frames: top-left corner has a black star, top-center has black and gray stars, top-right has gray and black stars. Middle rows show stars shifting left, center, and right. Bottom rows show stars shifting left, center, and right. A gray rectangle covers the bottom-right corner in the final frame.

Description

  • Blue text repeats 'The stars, they fall for us' across a white background with scattered black and gray stars.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090516170121403364626

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • calm
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text stars fall for us
  • repeating text stars shift
  • gray rectangle stars text
  • text stars shift white background

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle covers bottom-right corner in final frame
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • The stars, The stars, The stars, The stars, they fall, they fall, they fall, they fall, for us, for us, for us, for us

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • white background
  • black stars
  • gray stars
  • repeating text
  • four
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle
  • text repeats
  • stars shift
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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
20090516170121403364626
Archive entry
20090516170121403364626.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090516170121403364626.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090516170121403364626.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016