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Pixelated icon set with black hearts, stars, and 'I y' text on light blue background; some elements shift position across frames.

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Pixelated icon set with black hearts, stars, and 'I y' text on light blue background; some elements shift position across frames.

Pixelated icon set with black hearts, stars, and 'I y' text on light blue background; some elements shift position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • position changes in multiple elements

Animation Summary

All elements shift position across frames: top-left heart moves right, middle-left heart moves down, white cloud shifts left, star moves up, vertical line shifts right, and 'y' character moves up.

Composition

  • like arrangement
  • repeated elements across frames

Dense Caption

Light blue background contains pixelated icons: dark gray gradient heart (top-left), solid black heart (middle-left), white cloud-like shape (top-center), five-pointed star (center-right), vertical line, and 'I y' text. In the second frame, the top-left heart shifts slightly right; the middle-left heart moves down; the white cloud shape shifts left; the star moves up; the vertical line shifts right; and the 'y' character moves up. Third frame shows further minor repositioning of all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated icon set with black hearts, stars, and 'I y' text on light blue background; some elements shift position across frames.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711011509251620982255

Named Entities

  • I y text

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue pixelated icon set
  • heart stars text shifting positions
  • I y text animation
  • pixel art hearts stars clouds

Objects

  • heart icons
  • star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • I y

Visually Supported Entities

  • I y text

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • pixelated icons
  • dark gray gradient heart
  • solid black heart
  • white cloud-like shape
  • five-pointed star
  • vertical line
  • 'I y' text
  • heart shifts right
  • heart moves down
  • cloud shifts left
  • star moves up
  • line shifts right
  • 'y' character moves up

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711011509251620982255
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/07/07a4f20c2f7d97324c8e3371dad09e9562e49f64e1a85aa26ea837e70924b717.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
07a4f20c2f7d9732
SHA-256
07a4f20c2f7d97324c8e3371dad09e9562e49f64e1a85aa26ea837e70924b717
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102682

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon set with black hearts, stars, and 'I y' text on light blue background; some elements shift position across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:10 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,147 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 777

Review tags

  • shifting positions (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cloud shapes (object, 0.80)
  • heart icons (object, 0.80)
  • star icons (object, 0.80)
  • vertical lines (object, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shifting positions

Animation

  • position changes in multiple elements

Animation Summary

All elements shift position across frames: top-left heart moves right, middle-left heart moves down, white cloud shifts left, star moves up, vertical line shifts right, and 'y' character moves up.

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • like arrangement
  • repeated elements across frames

Dense Caption

Light blue background contains pixelated icons: dark gray gradient heart (top-left), solid black heart (middle-left), white cloud-like shape (top-center), five-pointed star (center-right), vertical line, and 'I y' text. In the second frame, the top-left heart shifts slightly right; the middle-left heart moves down; the white cloud shape shifts left; the star moves up; the vertical line shifts right; and the 'y' character moves up. Third frame shows further minor repositioning of all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated icon set with black hearts, stars, and 'I y' text on light blue background; some elements shift position across frames.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711011509251620982255

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • I y text

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • heart stars text shifting positions
  • I y text animation
  • pixel art hearts stars clouds

Objects

  • heart icons
  • star icons
  • cloud shapes
  • vertical lines
  • text characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • hearts
  • stars
  • text characters

Visible Text

  • I y

Visually Supported Entities

  • I y text

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • pixelated icons
  • dark gray gradient heart
  • solid black heart
  • white cloud-like shape
  • five-pointed star
  • vertical line
  • 'I y' text
  • heart shifts right
  • heart moves down
  • cloud shifts left
  • star moves up
  • line shifts right
  • 'y' character moves up
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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
200711011509251620982255
Archive entry
200711011509251620982255.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200711011509251620982255.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711011509251620982255.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016