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identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars

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identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars

identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three of four icons
  • centered text
  • star accents

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of twelve identical white text icons arranged in three rows of four against a solid bright purple background. Each icon displays the exact text string 'ily<3(:' using a pixelated sans-serif font. Small star symbols appear around each icon: some are dark blue, others are lighter purple, and they vary slightly in position across different instances. The bottom-right corner contains a gray rectangular overlay partially obscuring one icon. All icons share identical visual elements with no discernible motion or variation between them.

Description

  • identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806101508301942627273
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily<3( purple background stars
  • white text
  • blue and light purple stars
  • gray overlay 12 icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined description: A grid of identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four icons
  • quarantined retrieval: white text icon grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims.

Subjects

  • text icon

Visible Text

  • ily<3(:
  • ily<3(

Visually Supported Entities

  • text icon

Wordwall

  • white text
  • 'ily<3(:'
  • purple background
  • blue stars
  • light purple stars
  • 12 icons
  • three
  • four
  • gray overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806101508301942627273
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/09ef6100b1236caf5b157de3494cba48a01f28f12bb5fdbebdd887240c1210f0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
09ef6100b1236caf
SHA-256
09ef6100b1236caf5b157de3494cba48a01f28f12bb5fdbebdd887240c1210f0
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 21:02 UTC
Run
1303
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000844

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 20:38 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.187597

OpenAI category scores

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identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 20:32 UTC
Run
60
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,059 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 763

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray overlay (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text icon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • blue
  • light purple
  • gray

Composition

  • three of four icons
  • centered text
  • star accents

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of twelve identical white text icons arranged in three rows of four against a solid bright purple background. Each icon displays the exact text string 'ily<3(:' using a pixelated sans-serif font. Small star symbols appear around each icon: some are dark blue, others are lighter purple, and they vary slightly in position across different instances. The bottom-right corner contains a gray rectangular overlay partially obscuring one icon. All icons share identical visual elements with no discernible motion or variation between them.

Description

  • identical white text icons on a purple background, each displaying 'ily<3(:' with scattered blue and purple stars

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806101508301942627273
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ily<3( purple background stars
  • white text
  • blue and light purple stars
  • gray overlay 12 icons

Objects

  • stars
  • gray overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
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  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
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  • quarantined retrieval: white text icon grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims.

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text icon

Visible Text

  • ily<3(:
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Visually Supported Entities

  • text icon

Wordwall

  • white text
  • 'ily<3(:'
  • purple background
  • blue stars
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  • 12 icons
  • three
  • four
  • gray overlay
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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
200806101508301942627273
Archive entry
200806101508301942627273.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806101508301942627273.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806101508301942627273.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016