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Cyan background with purple text listing names and a heart symbol, showing two states of the same icon.

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Cyan background with purple text listing names and a heart symbol, showing two states of the same icon.

Cyan background with purple text listing names and a heart symbol, showing two states of the same icon. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears on left state only; right state shows same text without heart

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears on left side only; right side shows identical text without heart.

Composition

  • two identical layouts side-by-side
  • left layout includes heart next to 'lauren'
  • right layout omits heart

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays purple pixelated text: 'lauren' (left) followed by green pixelated heart; 'kylie'; 'ashley'; '='; 'bff <333'. Right side mirrors left but without heart. Both sides share identical text layout and color scheme. Left state includes a green heart symbol next to 'lauren', right state omits it.

Description

  • Cyan background with purple text listing names and a heart symbol, showing two states of the same icon.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lauren kylie ashley bff <333 cyan background
  • heart symbol lauren purple text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • lauren
  • kylie
  • ashley
  • =
  • bff
  • <333

Visually Supported Entities

  • lauren
  • kylie
  • ashley

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • green heart symbol
  • text: lauren kylie ashley bff <333
  • heart on left side only

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709171725251708702207
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
283 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3ffaa57e6d4db0278442bb5b9b47d681ff7729870ea4f8ed94dd5204eed5b265.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
3ffaa57e6d4db027
SHA-256
3ffaa57e6d4db0278442bb5b9b47d681ff7729870ea4f8ed94dd5204eed5b265
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.279863

OpenAI category scores

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Cyan background with purple text listing names and a heart symbol, showing two states of the same icon.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,705 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 610

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • names (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol appears on left state only; right state shows same text without heart

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears on left side only; right side shows identical text without heart.

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • two identical layouts side-by-side
  • left layout includes heart next to 'lauren'
  • right layout omits heart

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays purple pixelated text: 'lauren' (left) followed by green pixelated heart; 'kylie'; 'ashley'; '='; 'bff <333'. Right side mirrors left but without heart. Both sides share identical text layout and color scheme. Left state includes a green heart symbol next to 'lauren', right state omits it.

Description

  • Cyan background with purple text listing names and a heart symbol, showing two states of the same icon.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lauren kylie ashley bff <333 cyan background
  • heart symbol lauren purple text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • names
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • lauren
  • kylie
  • ashley
  • =
  • bff
  • <333

Visually Supported Entities

  • lauren
  • kylie
  • ashley

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • green heart symbol
  • text: lauren kylie ashley bff <333
  • heart on left side only
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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
200709171725251708702207
Archive entry
200709171725251708702207.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709171725251708702207.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709171725251708702207.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016