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Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: four 'ily <3' phrases, a heart, and a starburst pattern.

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Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: four 'ily <3' phrases, a heart, and a starburst pattern.

Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: four 'ily <3' phrases, a heart, and a starburst pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • center dot cluster animates
  • expands and contracts

Animation Summary

  • Center dot cluster animates by expanding and contracting; all other elements remain static.

Composition

  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Solid bright pink background. Four identical white pixelated text phrases 'ily <3' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top center: white pixelated heart. Top right: white pixelated starburst. Center: white pixelated dot cluster. All text and symbols are static except for the center dot cluster, which animates by expanding and contracting. No other motion or color changes visible.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: four 'ily <3' phrases, a heart, and a starburst pattern.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200811051547101252185078

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text
  • ily <3 heart starburst
  • animated dot cluster
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • affectionate mood
  • retro style
  • static text

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • ily <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • ily <3
  • heart
  • starburst
  • dot cluster
  • pixelated
  • static text
  • animated dot cluster

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811051547101252185078
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
269 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/4102acb19735d3b76d2b18534e3c0481db926ed9d6c1ec5257a402fe0dcb381c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
4102acb19735d3b7
SHA-256
4102acb19735d3b76d2b18534e3c0481db926ed9d6c1ec5257a402fe0dcb381c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111350

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.898237onnx/unsafe0.111350onnx/nsfw0.076595onnx/nsfl0.034755
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: four 'ily <3' phrases, a heart, and a starburst pattern.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,780 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 803

Review tags

  • dot cluster contracts (action, 0.80)
  • dot cluster expands (action, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dot cluster (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • center dot cluster animates (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • dot cluster expands
  • dot cluster contracts

Animation

  • center dot cluster animates
  • expands and contracts

Animation Summary

  • Center dot cluster animates by expanding and contracting; all other elements remain static.

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Solid bright pink background. Four identical white pixelated text phrases 'ily <3' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top center: white pixelated heart. Top right: white pixelated starburst. Center: white pixelated dot cluster. All text and symbols are static except for the center dot cluster, which animates by expanding and contracting. No other motion or color changes visible.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: four 'ily <3' phrases, a heart, and a starburst pattern.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200811051547101252185078

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text
  • ily <3 heart starburst
  • animated dot cluster
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • affectionate mood
  • retro style
  • static text

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst
  • dot cluster

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Visible Text

  • ily <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • ily <3
  • heart
  • starburst
  • dot cluster
  • pixelated
  • static text
  • animated dot cluster
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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
200811051547101252185078
Archive entry
200811051547101252185078.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811051547101252185078.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811051547101252185078.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016