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Pixelated icon with four instances of '3 Joe' text, heart symbol, and starburst pattern on black background.

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Pixelated icon with four instances of '3 Joe' text, heart symbol, and starburst pattern on black background.

Pixelated icon with four instances of '3 Joe' text, heart symbol, and starburst pattern on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • starburst pattern alternates between two dot configurations

Animation Summary

  • Starburst pattern alternates between two dot configurations while text and heart symbol remain static.

Composition

  • four text instances arranged in two of two
  • heart symbol top center
  • starburst patterns top right and center bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with four white pixelated '3 Joe' text instances arranged in two rows of two. Top center features a white pixelated heart symbol. Top right and center bottom display white pixelated starburst patterns. All elements are static except for the starburst pattern which appears to animate by changing its dot arrangement. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. The heart symbol is consistently present. The starburst pattern alternates between two distinct dot configurations.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four instances of '3 Joe' text, heart symbol, and starburst pattern on black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 3 Joe pixelated icon
  • heart symbol starburst animation
  • black background white text
  • four '3 Joe' instances

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four text instances arranged in two rows of two

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • 3 Joe

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • '3 Joe' text
  • heart symbol
  • starburst pattern
  • four text instances
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • static text
  • animated starburst

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901121213261118674913
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
767 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1c/1cc02d1cd2ceafe204b3f93606638f71c3fbbcb89bda6d46e222634bbd8477b0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
1cc02d1cd2ceafe2
SHA-256
1cc02d1cd2ceafe204b3f93606638f71c3fbbcb89bda6d46e222634bbd8477b0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083983

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with four instances of '3 Joe' text, heart symbol, and starburst pattern on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,226 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 707

Review tags

  • starburst pattern changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • starburst patterns (object, 0.80)
  • text instances (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst pattern (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • starburst pattern changes

Animation

  • starburst pattern alternates between two dot configurations

Animation Summary

  • Starburst pattern alternates between two dot configurations while text and heart symbol remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four text instances arranged in two of two
  • heart symbol top center
  • starburst patterns top right and center bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with four white pixelated '3 Joe' text instances arranged in two rows of two. Top center features a white pixelated heart symbol. Top right and center bottom display white pixelated starburst patterns. All elements are static except for the starburst pattern which appears to animate by changing its dot arrangement. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. The heart symbol is consistently present. The starburst pattern alternates between two distinct dot configurations.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four instances of '3 Joe' text, heart symbol, and starburst pattern on black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 3 Joe pixelated icon
  • heart symbol starburst animation
  • black background white text
  • four '3 Joe' instances

Objects

  • text instances
  • heart symbol
  • starburst patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four text instances arranged in two rows of two

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • starburst pattern

Visible Text

  • 3 Joe

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • '3 Joe' text
  • heart symbol
  • starburst pattern
  • four text instances
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • static text
  • animated starburst
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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
200901121213261118674913
Archive entry
200901121213261118674913.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901121213261118674913.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901121213261118674913.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016