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Pixelated cartoon face with brown hair, two eyes, a nose, and a smile; text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE' across frames.

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Pixelated cartoon face with brown hair, two eyes, a nose, and a smile; text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE' across frames.

Pixelated cartoon face with brown hair, two eyes, a nose, and a smile; text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE' across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from AERO to LOVE

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE'

Composition

  • centered subject
  • symmetrical face
  • text above and below head

Dense Caption

Two adjacent pixelated images of the same cartoon character's face. The character has light skin tone, dark brown oval eyes, a rounded brown nose, and a curved smiling mouth. Brown hair is visible at the top edges. Left image displays black blocky text "AERO" above the head; right image shows black blocky text "LOVE" below the chin. Both images have pink borders with white inner lines. The character's facial features remain identical between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with brown hair, two eyes, a nose, and a smile; text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE' 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
  • 20070929072741659834681

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon face AERO LOVE
  • pixelated character text change
  • smiling cartoon face pink border
  • blocky text AERO LOVE

Visible Text

  • AERO
  • LOVE

Wordwall

  • cartoon face
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • oval eyes
  • rounded nose
  • smiling mouth
  • black blocky text
  • AERO text
  • LOVE text
  • pink borders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070929072741659834681
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
0a561f080fd8703d
SHA-256
0a561f080fd8703d739c0becf981a39caea18e5174716defae49beb4eb0b5332
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093438

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon face with brown hair, two eyes, a nose, and a smile; text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE' across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:39 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,976 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 686

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • cartoon character face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes from AERO to LOVE

Animation

  • text changes from AERO to LOVE

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE'

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • brown
  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • symmetrical face
  • text above and below head

Dense Caption

Two adjacent pixelated images of the same cartoon character's face. The character has light skin tone, dark brown oval eyes, a rounded brown nose, and a curved smiling mouth. Brown hair is visible at the top edges. Left image displays black blocky text "AERO" above the head; right image shows black blocky text "LOVE" below the chin. Both images have pink borders with white inner lines. The character's facial features remain identical between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with brown hair, two eyes, a nose, and a smile; text changes from 'AERO' to 'LOVE' 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
  • 20070929072741659834681

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated character text change
  • smiling cartoon face pink border
  • blocky text AERO LOVE

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • simple cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character face

Visible Text

  • AERO
  • LOVE

Wordwall

  • cartoon face
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • oval eyes
  • rounded nose
  • smiling mouth
  • black blocky text
  • AERO text
  • LOVE text
  • pink borders
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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
20070929072741659834681
Archive entry
20070929072741659834681.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20070929072741659834681.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070929072741659834681.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016