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Black background with white star shapes and pink text repeating 'to <3 to' above 'skateboardskateboards' and 'skateboardskateboards' below.

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Black background with white star shapes and pink text repeating 'to <3 to' above 'skateboardskateboards' and 'skateboardskateboards' below.

Black background with white star shapes and pink text repeating 'to <3 to' above 'skateboardskateboards' and 'skateboardskateboards' below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed between chronological observations; the image appears static with consistent text and star positions across all frames.

Composition

  • central text block
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white four-pointed star shapes. Pink text displays 'to <3 to' above and below a central text block. Central text block shows 'skateboardskateboards' in two horizontal segments. The top segment reads 'skateboardskateboards' with 'skateboards' on the left and 'skateboards' on the right. The bottom segment reads 'skateboardskateboards' with 'skateboards' on the left and 'skateboards' on the right. All text is pixelated and rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. The text 'to <3 to' appears in the same position above and below the central text block. The star shapes are distributed across the background without a specific pattern. The image has no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and pink text repeating 'to <3 to' above 'skateboardskateboards' and 'skateboardskateboards' below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

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  • to <3 to skateboardskateboards
  • pixelated skateboards text
  • blocky style white stars pink text
  • skateboardskateboards to <3 to
  • white stars black background pink text
  • skateboardskateboards to <3 to white stars
  • low-resolution skateboards text

Visible Text

  • to
  • <3
  • skateboardskateboards

Wordwall

  • white star shapes
  • black background
  • pink text
  • to <3 to
  • skateboardskateboards
  • pixelated text
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution rendering

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707281242191601957219
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/366649b0097a71276521a85651bd3e836629d55ecfd972eab3c5d87b9ef193be.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
366649b0097a7127
SHA-256
366649b0097a71276521a85651bd3e836629d55ecfd972eab3c5d87b9ef193be
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
1351
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000133

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 09:07 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
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Black background with white star shapes and pink text repeating 'to <3 to' above 'skateboardskateboards' and 'skateboardskateboards' below.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,892 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 812

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed between chronological observations; the image appears static with consistent text and star positions across all frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • central text block
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white four-pointed star shapes. Pink text displays 'to <3 to' above and below a central text block. Central text block shows 'skateboardskateboards' in two horizontal segments. The top segment reads 'skateboardskateboards' with 'skateboards' on the left and 'skateboards' on the right. The bottom segment reads 'skateboardskateboards' with 'skateboards' on the left and 'skateboards' on the right. All text is pixelated and rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. The text 'to <3 to' appears in the same position above and below the central text block. The star shapes are distributed across the background without a specific pattern. The image has no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Black background with white star shapes and pink text repeating 'to <3 to' above 'skateboardskateboards' and 'skateboardskateboards' below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

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  • pixelated skateboards text
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  • low-resolution skateboards text

Style

  • pixelated
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Visible Text

  • to
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  • skateboardskateboards

Wordwall

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  • pink text
  • to <3 to
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  • low-resolution rendering
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:34 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200707281242191601957219
Archive entry
200707281242191601957219.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707281242191601957219.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707281242191601957219.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016