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Pixelated text 'i <3 joe!' on four background quadrants with a star icon changing color and position.

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Pixelated text 'i <3 joe!' on four background quadrants with a star icon changing color and position.

Pixelated text 'i <3 joe!' on four background quadrants with a star icon changing color and position. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star icon changes from pink to black between top-left and bottom-left quadrants

Animation Summary

  • Star icon changes from pink to black between top-left and bottom-left quadrants while text and background remain identical.

Composition

  • four quadrant
  • centered text
  • icon placement at lower right/bottom-left

Dense Caption

Four quadrant grid layout: top-left black background, bottom-left bright pink background, top-right deep purple background, bottom-right dark purple background. White pixelated text reads 'i' above '<3' above 'joe!' in all four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has a small solid pink star icon at lower right; bottom-left quadrant has a small solid black star icon at lower center. Star icon changes from pink to black between top-left and bottom-left quadrants while remaining otherwise identical.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'i <3 joe!' on four background quadrants with a star icon changing color and position.

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 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

Named Entities

  • joe

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <3 joe! star icon
  • pixelated i <3 joe!
  • four quadrant star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four quadrant grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid star icons

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • i <3 joe!

Visually Supported Entities

  • joe

Wordwall

  • four quadrant
  • pixelated text 'i <3 joe!'
  • black background (top-left)
  • bright pink background (bottom-left)
  • deep purple background (top-right)
  • dark purple background (bottom-right)
  • white pixelated font
  • pink star icon (top-left)
  • black star icon (bottom-left)

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812071009551663697757
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/14f7e5c8c1a96bee2639f7841a06a59f6e1bd1137da7e91e08a110ebea184049.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
14f7e5c8c1a96bee
SHA-256
14f7e5c8c1a96bee2639f7841a06a59f6e1bd1137da7e91e08a110ebea184049
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119004

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text 'i <3 joe!' on four background quadrants with a star icon changing color and position.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,002 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 720

Review tags

  • star icon color change (action, 0.80)
  • star icon position shift (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol 3 (object, 0.80)
  • text i (object, 0.80)
  • text joe (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star icon color change
  • star icon position shift

Animation

  • star icon changes from pink to black between top-left and bottom-left quadrants

Animation Summary

  • Star icon changes from pink to black between top-left and bottom-left quadrants while text and background remain identical.

Colors

  • black
  • bright pink
  • deep purple
  • dark purple
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • four quadrant
  • centered text
  • icon placement at lower right/bottom-left

Dense Caption

Four quadrant grid layout: top-left black background, bottom-left bright pink background, top-right deep purple background, bottom-right dark purple background. White pixelated text reads 'i' above '<3' above 'joe!' in all four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has a small solid pink star icon at lower right; bottom-left quadrant has a small solid black star icon at lower center. Star icon changes from pink to black between top-left and bottom-left quadrants while remaining otherwise identical.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'i <3 joe!' on four background quadrants with a star icon changing color and position.

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 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • joe

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <3 joe! star icon
  • pixelated i <3 joe!
  • four quadrant star icons

Objects

  • text 'i'
  • heart symbol '<3'
  • text 'joe!'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four quadrant grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid star icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • i <3 joe!

Visually Supported Entities

  • joe

Wordwall

  • four quadrant
  • pixelated text 'i <3 joe!'
  • black background (top-left)
  • bright pink background (bottom-left)
  • deep purple background (top-right)
  • dark purple background (bottom-right)
  • white pixelated font
  • pink star icon (top-left)
  • black star icon (bottom-left)
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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
200812071009551663697757
Archive entry
200812071009551663697757.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812071009551663697757.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812071009551663697757.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016