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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red asterisks changing position between frames.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red asterisks changing position between frames.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red asterisks changing position between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • asterisk positions change between frames

Animation Summary

Asterisks shift position between frames: left frame has four orange-red and one brownish-orange asterisk; right frame has three orange-red and two brownish-orange asterisks.

Composition

  • text centered top
  • symbols bottom

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: 'iloveyou', 'garrett', '5/13/08', 'aaf*', and five red asterisks. Left frame shows four orange-red asterisks followed by one brownish-orange asterisk; right frame shows three orange-red asterisks, then two brownish-orange asterisks. Text remains static across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red asterisks changing position between frames.

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
  • 20080513171732290903533

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • iloveyou garrett 5/13/08 aaf* red asterisks
  • red asterisks shift position
  • black background white pixelated text

Visible Text

  • iloveyou
  • garrett
  • 5/13/08
  • aaf*

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • iloveyou garrett 5/13/08 aaf*
  • five red asterisks
  • four orange-red and one brownish-orange asterisk (left frame)
  • three orange-red and two brownish-orange asterisks (right frame)

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080513171732290903533
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d0cb24c9747325e68a05f1f6f0e71ee53b46e4dcd1a05e5960e061b502d3fce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
3d0cb24c9747325e
SHA-256
3d0cb24c9747325e68a05f1f6f0e71ee53b46e4dcd1a05e5960e061b502d3fce
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078665

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red asterisks changing position between frames.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,607 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 700

Review tags

  • asterisks shift position between frames (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brownish orange (color, 0.80)
  • orange red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red asterisks (object, 0.80)
  • asterisk positions change between frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • asterisks shift position between frames

Animation

  • asterisk positions change between frames

Animation Summary

Asterisks shift position between frames: left frame has four orange-red and one brownish-orange asterisk; right frame has three orange-red and two brownish-orange asterisks.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange-red
  • brownish-orange

Composition

  • text centered top
  • symbols bottom

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: 'iloveyou', 'garrett', '5/13/08', 'aaf*', and five red asterisks. Left frame shows four orange-red asterisks followed by one brownish-orange asterisk; right frame shows three orange-red asterisks, then two brownish-orange asterisks. Text remains static across both frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red asterisks changing position between frames.

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
  • 20080513171732290903533

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • iloveyou garrett 5/13/08 aaf* red asterisks
  • red asterisks shift position
  • black background white pixelated text

Objects

  • red asterisks

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • iloveyou
  • garrett
  • 5/13/08
  • aaf*

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • iloveyou garrett 5/13/08 aaf*
  • five red asterisks
  • four orange-red and one brownish-orange asterisk (left frame)
  • three orange-red and two brownish-orange asterisks (right frame)
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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
20080513171732290903533
Archive entry
20080513171732290903533.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080513171732290903533.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080513171732290903533.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016