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Green background with light blue pixelated text and symbols, including 'V+N=', '3', 'L.O.V.EL', and pink/brown asterisks.

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Green background with light blue pixelated text and symbols, including 'V+N=', '3', 'L.O.V.EL', and pink/brown asterisks.

Green background with light blue pixelated text and symbols, including 'V+N=', '3', 'L.O.V.EL', and pink/brown asterisks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Source terms

Composition

  • top : 'V + N =' repeated twice
  • middle : '3' sequences with arrow between
  • bottom : 'L.O.V.EL' repeated twice
  • lower section: two identical symbol

Dense Caption

Solid green background; top row displays two identical sequences of light blue pixelated characters: 'V + N ='; middle row shows two identical sequences of light blue pixelated '3's with a small left-pointing arrow between them; bottom row contains two identical sequences of light blue pixelated text 'L.O.V.EL' separated by spaces; lower section has two identical horizontal rows of five symbols each, consisting of four pink asterisks and one brown asterisk in the third position from the left.

Description

  • Green background with light blue pixelated text and symbols, including 'V+N=', '3', 'L.O.V.EL', and pink/brown asterisks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070909145006287404553
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070909145006287404553
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070909145006287404553

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pixelated text
  • V+N= 3 L.O.V.EL
  • pink brown asterisks
  • repeated symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: lower section: two identical symbol rows
  • quarantined composition: bottom row: 'L.O.V.EL' repeated twice
  • quarantined composition: middle row: '3' sequences with arrow between
  • quarantined composition: top row: 'V + N =' repeated twice
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated symbol rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • V + N =
  • 3
  • L.O.V.EL

Wordwall

  • green background
  • light blue pixelated text
  • 'V + N ='
  • '3'
  • 'L.O.V.EL'
  • pink asterisks
  • brown asterisk
  • two identical horizontal

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909145006287404553
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
994 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0a/0a4d890dc2818f40cd0f25973d9a49866319994abd7db69ce3f7a5d63bf56fc6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
0a4d890dc2818f40
SHA-256
0a4d890dc2818f40cd0f25973d9a49866319994abd7db69ce3f7a5d63bf56fc6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128747

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.881343onnx/unsafe0.128747onnx/nsfw0.085283onnx/nsfl0.043463
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Green background with light blue pixelated text and symbols, including 'V+N=', '3', 'L.O.V.EL', and pink/brown asterisks.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,861 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 834

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • light blue
  • pink
  • brown

Composition

  • top : 'V + N =' repeated twice
  • middle : '3' sequences with arrow between
  • bottom : 'L.O.V.EL' repeated twice
  • lower section: two identical symbol

Dense Caption

Solid green background; top row displays two identical sequences of light blue pixelated characters: 'V + N ='; middle row shows two identical sequences of light blue pixelated '3's with a small left-pointing arrow between them; bottom row contains two identical sequences of light blue pixelated text 'L.O.V.EL' separated by spaces; lower section has two identical horizontal rows of five symbols each, consisting of four pink asterisks and one brown asterisk in the third position from the left.

Description

  • Green background with light blue pixelated text and symbols, including 'V+N=', '3', 'L.O.V.EL', and pink/brown asterisks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070909145006287404553
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070909145006287404553
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070909145006287404553

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pixelated text
  • V+N= 3 L.O.V.EL
  • pink brown asterisks
  • repeated symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: lower section: two identical symbol rows
  • quarantined composition: bottom row: 'L.O.V.EL' repeated twice
  • quarantined composition: middle row: '3' sequences with arrow between
  • quarantined composition: top row: 'V + N =' repeated twice
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated symbol rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced text
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • V + N =
  • 3
  • L.O.V.EL

Wordwall

  • green background
  • light blue pixelated text
  • 'V + N ='
  • '3'
  • 'L.O.V.EL'
  • pink asterisks
  • brown asterisk
  • two identical horizontal
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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
20070909145006287404553
Archive entry
20070909145006287404553.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070909145006287404553.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070909145006287404553.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016