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Pixelated text 'i love chad' in pink on cyan background with green heart and starburst symbols above.

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Pixelated text 'i love chad' in pink on cyan background with green heart and starburst symbols above.

Pixelated text 'i love chad' in pink on cyan background with green heart and starburst symbols above. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Animation

the green starburst symbol changes from a solid heart to a dot-based starburst between top-left and top-right frames, then shifts position below the bottom-left frame

Animation Summary

The green starburst symbol changes from a solid heart to a dot-based starburst between top-left and top-right frames, then shifts position below the bottom-left frame.

Composition

  • four identical text arrangements in
  • text centered within each arrangement
  • symbols positioned above respective text arrangements

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays four identical arrangements of pixelated pink text reading 'i love chad'. Each arrangement has a single lowercase 'i', followed by 'love' stacked over 'chad'. Above the top-left arrangement is a small solid green heart. Above the top-right arrangement is a small green starburst made of dots. Below the bottom-left arrangement is a larger green starburst made of dots.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'i love chad' in pink on cyan background with green heart and starburst symbols above.

Identity Hypotheses

  • chad

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
  • 200709141454151602422425

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love chad cyan background
  • green heart pink text
  • green dot starburst cyan
  • pixelated i love chad

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text arrangements in 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • i love chad

Visually Supported Entities

  • chad

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • 'i love chad'
  • green heart symbol
  • green dot starburst
  • four identical arrangements

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709141454151602422425
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
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2eb6216c18c0cc78516461b5fbbf54fd63bb2b314d68e162b8351c7f9be664a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
2eb6216c18c0cc78
SHA-256
2eb6216c18c0cc78516461b5fbbf54fd63bb2b314d68e162b8351c7f9be664a9
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118286

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Pixelated text 'i love chad' in pink on cyan background with green heart and starburst symbols above.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,750 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 709

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • green dot starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • green heart (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text i love chad (subject, 0.80)

Animation

the green starburst symbol changes from a solid heart to a dot-based starburst between top-left and top-right frames, then shifts position below the bottom-left frame

Animation Summary

The green starburst symbol changes from a solid heart to a dot-based starburst between top-left and top-right frames, then shifts position below the bottom-left frame.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • four identical text arrangements in
  • text centered within each arrangement
  • symbols positioned above respective text arrangements

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays four identical arrangements of pixelated pink text reading 'i love chad'. Each arrangement has a single lowercase 'i', followed by 'love' stacked over 'chad'. Above the top-left arrangement is a small solid green heart. Above the top-right arrangement is a small green starburst made of dots. Below the bottom-left arrangement is a larger green starburst made of dots.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'i love chad' in pink on cyan background with green heart and starburst symbols above.

Identity Hypotheses

  • chad

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
  • 200709141454151602422425

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love chad cyan background
  • green heart pink text
  • green dot starburst cyan
  • pixelated i love chad

Objects

  • green heart
  • green dot starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text arrangements in 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text 'i love chad'

Visible Text

  • i love chad

Visually Supported Entities

  • chad

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • 'i love chad'
  • green heart symbol
  • green dot starburst
  • four identical arrangements
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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
200709141454151602422425
Archive entry
200709141454151602422425.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#200709141454151602422425.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709141454151602422425.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016