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Blue background with white text 'i', '<3', and 'will' above pink and purple asterisk-like symbols, two identical frames side-by-side.

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Blue background with white text 'i', '<3', and 'will' above pink and purple asterisk-like symbols, two identical frames side-by-side.

Blue background with white text 'i', '<3', and 'will' above pink and purple asterisk-like symbols, two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal symbol
  • two identical frames side-by-side

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames displayed side-by-side on a solid blue background. Each frame contains white pixelated text: lowercase 'i' at the top, followed by a left-pointing heart symbol '<3', then the word 'will'. Below this text is a horizontal row of five asterisk-like symbols in pink and purple hues (pink, pink, purple, pink, pink from left to right). The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Blue background with white text 'i', '<3', and 'will' above pink and purple asterisk-like symbols, two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 200803181828051123979304

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background i will
  • pink purple asterisks
  • pixelated text frames
  • i <3 will symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal symbol row

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • will

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text i
  • <3 symbol
  • will word
  • five asterisks
  • pink symbols
  • purple symbol
  • pixelated font
  • static frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803181828051123979304
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
238 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1a/1aab1f291c498ee673587d66d3c59b55a1dd024e05cf366d350d1c86afb430e0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
1aab1f291c498ee6
SHA-256
1aab1f291c498ee673587d66d3c59b55a1dd024e05cf366d350d1c86afb430e0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075253

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white text 'i', '<3', and 'will' above pink and purple asterisk-like symbols, two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:11 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,897 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 638

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal symbol
  • two identical frames side-by-side

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames displayed side-by-side on a solid blue background. Each frame contains white pixelated text: lowercase 'i' at the top, followed by a left-pointing heart symbol '<3', then the word 'will'. Below this text is a horizontal row of five asterisk-like symbols in pink and purple hues (pink, pink, purple, pink, pink from left to right). The image uses low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Blue background with white text 'i', '<3', and 'will' above pink and purple asterisk-like symbols, two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 200803181828051123979304

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background i will
  • pink purple asterisks
  • pixelated text frames
  • i <3 will symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal symbol row

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • will

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text i
  • <3 symbol
  • will word
  • five asterisks
  • pink symbols
  • purple symbol
  • pixelated font
  • static frames
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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
200803181828051123979304
Archive entry
200803181828051123979304.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803181828051123979304.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803181828051123979304.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016