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Pixelated text-based buddy icon with multiple showing romantic metaphors and a central animated character

Pixelated text-based buddy icon with multiple showing romantic metaphors and a central animated character. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static text with no motion changes

Composition

  • six
  • central character in top-middle
  • text dominates each section

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated sections display text: top-left reads "If a kiss were a raindrop id send u showers"; top-middle shows "If hugs were a second, I'd send you hours." over a yellow-and-black background with a cartoon face; top-right states "It's miles were water I'd send you the sea."; bottom-left says "If love was a person," on blue waves; bottom-middle reads "I'd send you me" in purple text. The central character has black hair, large eyes, and wears an orange outfit against a yellow background with brown accents.

Description

  • Pixelated text-based buddy icon with multiple showing romantic metaphors and a central animated character

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
  • 20080202211431626773697

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon romantic metaphors
  • raindrop hugs miles water sea love person text
  • blue wave yellow cartoon face six
  • I'd send you me text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text-based buddy icon with multiple panels showing romantic metaphors and a central animated character.
  • quarantined wordwall: six panels
  • quarantined composition: central character in top-middle panel
  • quarantined composition: six-panel grid layout
  • quarantined animation: static text panels with no motion changes
  • quarantined retrieval: blue wave yellow cartoon face six panels

Visible Text

  • If a kiss were a raindrop id send u showers
  • If hugs were a second, I'd send you hours.
  • It's miles were water I'd send you the sea.
  • If love was a person,
  • I'd send you me

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • text-based
  • pixelated
  • six
  • raindrop metaphor
  • hugs second metaphor
  • miles water sea metaphor
  • love person metaphor
  • I'd send you me text
  • blue wave background
  • yellow cartoon face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080202211431626773697
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.7 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
33641f38444b09f9
SHA-256
33641f38444b09f93b53b5c7c610b1bd2bb6c8e9fc8347082c391998b22c46cf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.292136

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Pixelated text-based buddy icon with multiple showing romantic metaphors and a central animated character

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,685 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 800

Review tags

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  • love (object, 0.80)
  • miles (object, 0.80)
  • person (object, 0.80)
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  • yellow cartoon face background (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text displays metaphors

Animation

  • static text with no motion changes

Colors

  • orange
  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • blue
  • purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • six
  • central character in top-middle
  • text dominates each section

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated sections display text: top-left reads "If a kiss were a raindrop id send u showers"; top-middle shows "If hugs were a second, I'd send you hours." over a yellow-and-black background with a cartoon face; top-right states "It's miles were water I'd send you the sea."; bottom-left says "If love was a person," on blue waves; bottom-middle reads "I'd send you me" in purple text. The central character has black hair, large eyes, and wears an orange outfit against a yellow background with brown accents.

Description

  • Pixelated text-based buddy icon with multiple showing romantic metaphors and a central animated character

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
  • 20080202211431626773697

Mood

  • romantic
  • sentimental
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon romantic metaphors
  • raindrop hugs miles water sea love person text
  • blue wave yellow cartoon face six
  • I'd send you me text

Objects

  • raindrop
  • hugs
  • miles
  • water
  • sea
  • love
  • person

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animation: static text panels with no motion changes
  • quarantined retrieval: blue wave yellow cartoon face six panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cartoon face
  • blue wave background
  • yellow cartoon face background

Visible Text

  • If a kiss were a raindrop id send u showers
  • If hugs were a second, I'd send you hours.
  • It's miles were water I'd send you the sea.
  • If love was a person,
  • I'd send you me

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

Wordwall

  • text-based
  • pixelated
  • six
  • raindrop metaphor
  • hugs second metaphor
  • miles water sea metaphor
  • love person metaphor
  • I'd send you me text
  • blue wave background
  • yellow cartoon face
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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
20080202211431626773697
Archive entry
20080202211431626773697.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080202211431626773697.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080202211431626773697.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016