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Blue pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated blue star-like shapes below.

Blue pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated blue star-like shapes below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the third blue star from the left is slightly darker in the second frame

Animation Summary

  • The third blue star from the left is slightly darker in the second frame.

Composition

  • central text arrangement
  • horizontal of stars below

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames show a central arrangement of blue pixelated characters: an uppercase 'I', a left-pointing arrow '<', the number '3', a hash symbol '#', and another '3' stacked vertically. Below these, five small blue star-like symbols are arranged horizontally; in the right frame, the third star from the left is slightly darker than the others. The background is solid black.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated blue star-like shapes 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806071008311653667230

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated I <3 #3
  • black background blue stars animation
  • <3 symbol blue text
  • star shapes darkened frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row of stars below

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • #3

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • star-like shapes
  • upright 'I'
  • <3 symbol
  • #3 symbol
  • five blue stars
  • third star darker

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806071008311653667230
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
537 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b16aaed103e4326dce86f18c2728a99d9ae3e7a8e9b6d5b43b4ba8642e65941.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
3b16aaed103e4326
SHA-256
3b16aaed103e4326dce86f18c2728a99d9ae3e7a8e9b6d5b43b4ba8642e65941
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074909

OpenAI category scores

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Blue pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated blue star-like shapes below.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
60
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,707 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue pixelated characters (object, 0.80)
  • blue star like shapes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text symbols (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • the third blue star from the left is slightly darker in the second frame

Animation Summary

  • The third blue star from the left is slightly darker in the second frame.

Colors

  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • central text arrangement
  • horizontal of stars below

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames show a central arrangement of blue pixelated characters: an uppercase 'I', a left-pointing arrow '<', the number '3', a hash symbol '#', and another '3' stacked vertically. Below these, five small blue star-like symbols are arranged horizontally; in the right frame, the third star from the left is slightly darker than the others. The background is solid black.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text and symbols on black background with animated blue star-like shapes 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806071008311653667230

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated I <3 #3
  • black background blue stars animation
  • <3 symbol blue text
  • star shapes darkened frame

Objects

  • blue pixelated characters
  • blue star-like shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row of stars below

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text symbols
  • star shapes

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • #3

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • star-like shapes
  • upright 'I'
  • <3 symbol
  • #3 symbol
  • five blue stars
  • third star darker
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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
200806071008311653667230
Archive entry
200806071008311653667230.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806071008311653667230.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806071008311653667230.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016