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Orange background with black text reading 'theres this boy <3' and five white plus signs below, one of which is light orange in the second frame.

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Orange background with black text reading 'theres this boy <3' and five white plus signs below, one of which is light orange in the second frame.

Orange background with black text reading 'theres this boy <3' and five white plus signs below, one of which is light orange in the second frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • one central plus sign changes from white to light orange between observations

Animation Summary

  • The central plus sign changes from white to light orange between the two observations.

Composition

  • text centered horizontally above five plus signs on solid background

Dense Caption

Solid orange background. Black pixelated sans-serif text: 'theres', 'this', 'boy <3'. Five small white plus signs arranged horizontally beneath the text; leftmost four are white, fifth (center) is light orange in the right observation. Text and plus sign positions remain fixed across observations. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

Orange background with black text reading 'theres this boy <3' and five white plus signs below, one of which is light orange in the second frame.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709141325541582948927

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange background text boy <3
  • plus signs animation
  • light orange center plus
  • pixelated text five plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 'boy <3' bottom row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'this' middle row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'theres' on top row

Visible Text

  • theres
  • this
  • boy <3

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'theres' on top
  • 'this' middle
  • 'boy <3' bottom
  • five white plus signs below
  • one light orange plus sign in center
  • fixed layout across observations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709141325541582948927
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
900 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/28f0a04c6ecbe647c03572084f15d0f57e6eb67b11e2f94ac562350ac4c59dca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
28f0a04c6ecbe647
SHA-256
28f0a04c6ecbe647c03572084f15d0f57e6eb67b11e2f94ac562350ac4c59dca
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077013

OpenAI category scores

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Orange background with black text reading 'theres this boy <3' and five white plus signs below, one of which is light orange in the second frame.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,966 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 703

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • light orange plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • white plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sans serif text (style, 0.80)
  • plus signs (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • plus sign changes color from white to light orange

Animation

  • one central plus sign changes from white to light orange between observations

Animation Summary

  • The central plus sign changes from white to light orange between the two observations.

Colors

  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • light orange

Composition

  • text centered horizontally above five plus signs on solid background

Dense Caption

Solid orange background. Black pixelated sans-serif text: 'theres', 'this', 'boy <3'. Five small white plus signs arranged horizontally beneath the text; leftmost four are white, fifth (center) is light orange in the right observation. Text and plus sign positions remain fixed across observations. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

Orange background with black text reading 'theres this boy <3' and five white plus signs below, one of which is light orange in the second frame.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709141325541582948927

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange background text boy <3
  • plus signs animation
  • light orange center plus
  • pixelated text five plus signs

Objects

  • white plus signs
  • light orange plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 'this' middle row
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Style

  • pixelated
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  • sans-serif text

Subjects

  • text
  • plus signs

Visible Text

  • theres
  • this
  • boy <3

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'theres' on top
  • 'this' middle
  • 'boy <3' bottom
  • five white plus signs below
  • one light orange plus sign in center
  • fixed layout across observations
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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
200709141325541582948927
Archive entry
200709141325541582948927.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#200709141325541582948927.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709141325541582948927.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016