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Blue background with repeated black text 'i love marc!' and scattered pink pixelated stars in various sizes.

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Blue background with repeated black text 'i love marc!' and scattered pink pixelated stars in various sizes.

Blue background with repeated black text 'i love marc!' and scattered pink pixelated stars in various sizes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change between observations

Animation Summary

  • Pink pixelated stars shift position across observations while text remains static.

Composition

  • identical text elements
  • scattered star shapes across background

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with three rows of identical black text reading "i love marc!" arranged in a 3x3 grid. Scattered across the background are small, pixelated pink star shapes that vary in size and position between frames; some appear as four-pointed crosses while others form X or plus signs. The stars' positions shift slightly across observations without changing their color or basic shape.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated black text 'i love marc!' and scattered pink pixelated stars in various sizes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • marc

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200712041641081333684187

Named Entities

  • marc

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love marc! blue background
  • pink star animation blue background
  • text i love marc! animated stars
  • blue background pink stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid of identical text elements
  • quarantined retrieval: blue background pink stars 3x3 grid

Visible Text

  • i love marc!

Visually Supported Entities

  • marc

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black text 'i love marc!'
  • pink pixelated stars
  • star shapes vary in size
  • stars move between frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712041641081333684187
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
985 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34d77faf729c0d9149d20418b17da1291e714396ec85cba2fa1e15a2d87d4bf9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
34d77faf729c0d91
SHA-256
34d77faf729c0d9149d20418b17da1291e714396ec85cba2fa1e15a2d87d4bf9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085706

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated black text 'i love marc!' and scattered pink pixelated stars in various sizes.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:12 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,536 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 689

Review tags

  • stars shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star positions change between observations (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift position

Animation

  • star positions change between observations

Animation Summary

  • Pink pixelated stars shift position across observations while text remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • identical text elements
  • scattered star shapes across background

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with three rows of identical black text reading "i love marc!" arranged in a 3x3 grid. Scattered across the background are small, pixelated pink star shapes that vary in size and position between frames; some appear as four-pointed crosses while others form X or plus signs. The stars' positions shift slightly across observations without changing their color or basic shape.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated black text 'i love marc!' and scattered pink pixelated stars in various sizes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • marc

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200712041641081333684187

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • marc

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love marc! blue background
  • pink star animation blue background
  • text i love marc! animated stars
  • blue background pink stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: blue background pink stars 3x3 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive text layout

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • i love marc!

Visually Supported Entities

  • marc

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black text 'i love marc!'
  • pink pixelated stars
  • star shapes vary in size
  • stars move between 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
200712041641081333684187
Archive entry
200712041641081333684187.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712041641081333684187.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712041641081333684187.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016