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Pixelated cyan background with white circular patterns and repeated text elements in black.

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Pixelated cyan background with white circular patterns and repeated text elements in black.

Pixelated cyan background with white circular patterns and repeated text elements in black. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • white circles on cyan background
  • text arranged in four groups
  • horizontal wavy line below text

Dense Caption

Cyan background features repeating white circle patterns. Four instances of the phrase "<3 its luvved" appear, each rendered in pixelated black font; two are positioned above a horizontal wavy line pattern. The text is consistently displayed across all visible frames without change. White circles form a grid-like arrangement with varying spacing.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with white circular patterns and repeated text elements in black.

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
  • 20080715171948729162392

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background white circles text <3 its luvved
  • pixelated cyan white black text
  • repeated <3 its luvved wavy line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid of white circles on cyan background

Visible Text

  • <3 its luvved

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white circular patterns
  • <3 its luvved text
  • pixelated font
  • wavy line pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080715171948729162392
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41395ac583c373b9ddb11bb37401abf879c96d3f8ed60d7aad81bd09b1471c3b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
41395ac583c373b9
SHA-256
41395ac583c373b9ddb11bb37401abf879c96d3f8ed60d7aad81bd09b1471c3b
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
0.085657

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan background with white circular patterns and repeated text elements in black.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,468 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 601

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive patterns (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • white circles on cyan background
  • text arranged in four groups
  • horizontal wavy line below text

Dense Caption

Cyan background features repeating white circle patterns. Four instances of the phrase "<3 its luvved" appear, each rendered in pixelated black font; two are positioned above a horizontal wavy line pattern. The text is consistently displayed across all visible frames without change. White circles form a grid-like arrangement with varying spacing.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with white circular patterns and repeated text elements in black.

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
  • 20080715171948729162392

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background white circles text <3 its luvved
  • pixelated cyan white black text
  • repeated <3 its luvved wavy line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid of white circles on cyan background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive patterns

Visible Text

  • <3 its luvved

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white circular patterns
  • <3 its luvved text
  • pixelated font
  • wavy line pattern
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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
20080715171948729162392
Archive entry
20080715171948729162392.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080715171948729162392.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080715171948729162392.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016