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Pixelated text on a green-to-blue gradient background with one instance showing a blue circular overlay.

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Pixelated text on a green-to-blue gradient background with one instance showing a blue circular overlay.

Pixelated text on a green-to-blue gradient background with one instance showing a blue circular overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation

  • one instance shows a solid blue circle covering lower-left portion of text block

Animation Summary

The left arrangement shows a solid blue circular overlay covering the lower-left portion of its text block, while the right arrangement lacks this overlay.

Composition

  • two vertical text arrangements side-by-side
  • left arrangement has circular overlay
  • text aligned left

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical vertical arrangements of pixelated white text against a bright green background that transitions to light blue at the bottom. Each arrangement contains six lines: 'i luv', 'U', 'b/c u', 'luv me 4', and 'ME'. The left arrangement includes an additional distinct visual element: a solid blue circular overlay covering the lower-left portion of its text block, while the right arrangement lacks this overlay. All text uses a retro digital font style with sharp pixel edges.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a green-to-blue gradient background with one instance showing a blue circular overlay.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802201613531989375257

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green gradient background pixelated text
  • blue circle overlay white text
  • i luv U b/c u luv me 4 ME

Visible Text

  • i luv
  • U
  • b/c u
  • luv me 4
  • ME

Wordwall

  • green-to-blue gradient background
  • pixelated white text
  • six lines per arrangement
  • 'i luv' line
  • 'U' line
  • 'b/c u' line
  • 'luv me 4' line
  • 'ME' line
  • blue circular overlay on left
  • identical text content

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802201613531989375257
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3ec9e3d3f31a3b32507103134c5140c21ff3553a811ff434b8c510094cc7bc49.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
3ec9e3d3f31a3b32
SHA-256
3ec9e3d3f31a3b32507103134c5140c21ff3553a811ff434b8c510094cc7bc49
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095213

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923155onnx/unsafe0.095213onnx/nsfw0.054284onnx/nsfl0.040929
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a green-to-blue gradient background with one instance showing a blue circular overlay.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:00 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,201 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 739

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital font (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • one instance shows a solid blue circle covering lower-left portion of text block

Animation Summary

The left arrangement shows a solid blue circular overlay covering the lower-left portion of its text block, while the right arrangement lacks this overlay.

Colors

  • green
  • light blue
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • two vertical text arrangements side-by-side
  • left arrangement has circular overlay
  • text aligned left

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical vertical arrangements of pixelated white text against a bright green background that transitions to light blue at the bottom. Each arrangement contains six lines: 'i luv', 'U', 'b/c u', 'luv me 4', and 'ME'. The left arrangement includes an additional distinct visual element: a solid blue circular overlay covering the lower-left portion of its text block, while the right arrangement lacks this overlay. All text uses a retro digital font style with sharp pixel edges.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a green-to-blue gradient background with one instance showing a blue circular overlay.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802201613531989375257

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green gradient background pixelated text
  • blue circle overlay white text
  • i luv U b/c u luv me 4 ME

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital font
  • gradient background

Visible Text

  • i luv
  • U
  • b/c u
  • luv me 4
  • ME

Wordwall

  • green-to-blue gradient background
  • pixelated white text
  • six lines per arrangement
  • 'i luv' line
  • 'U' line
  • 'b/c u' line
  • 'luv me 4' line
  • 'ME' line
  • blue circular overlay on left
  • identical text content
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200802201613531989375257
Archive entry
200802201613531989375257.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802201613531989375257.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802201613531989375257.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016