Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated 'iY' text, displaying changing text overlays.

Permanent icon record

Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated 'iY' text, displaying changing text overlays.

Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated 'iY' text, displaying changing text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change between 'Hands', 'R 4', 'holding', 'hearts', 'R 4', 'loving' while background remains static.

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • repeated background elements
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The icon features a background of diagonal stripes in pink, blue, and green. White hearts and repeated 'iY' text appear across the background. The icon displays changing text overlays: 'Hands', 'R 4', 'holding', 'hearts', 'R 4', 'loving' in black outlined white letters. The animation cycles through these text changes while maintaining the same background elements.

Description

  • Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated 'iY' text, displaying changing text overlays.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue green diagonal stripes hearts
  • iY text hearts holding loving
  • R 4 hearts holding loving
  • text-based animated hearts

Visible Text

  • Hands
  • R 4
  • holding
  • hearts
  • loving

Wordwall

  • pink blue green diagonal stripes
  • white hearts
  • repeated 'iY' text
  • changing text overlays
  • black outlined white letters
  • diagonal stripe background

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905171507472131661834
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45a0c605664985867dd3aa09281d71c82994f533f846ac475a3826f0ea10ab49.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
45a0c60566498586
SHA-256
45a0c605664985867dd3aa09281d71c82994f533f846ac475a3826f0ea10ab49
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091362

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927258onnx/unsafe0.091362onnx/nsfw0.060470onnx/nsfl0.030892
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated 'iY' text, displaying changing text overlays.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,846 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 717

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • loving (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • loving

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change between 'Hands', 'R 4', 'holding', 'hearts', 'R 4', 'loving' while background remains static.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • repeated background elements
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The icon features a background of diagonal stripes in pink, blue, and green. White hearts and repeated 'iY' text appear across the background. The icon displays changing text overlays: 'Hands', 'R 4', 'holding', 'hearts', 'R 4', 'loving' in black outlined white letters. The animation cycles through these text changes while maintaining the same background elements.

Description

  • Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated 'iY' text, displaying changing text overlays.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue green diagonal stripes hearts
  • iY text hearts holding loving
  • R 4 hearts holding loving
  • text-based animated hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • Hands
  • R 4
  • holding
  • hearts
  • loving

Wordwall

  • pink blue green diagonal stripes
  • white hearts
  • repeated 'iY' text
  • changing text overlays
  • black outlined white letters
  • diagonal stripe background
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "45a0c605664985867dd3aa09281d71c82994f533f846ac475a3826f0ea10ab49",
  "description": "Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated \u0027iY\u0027 text, displaying changing text overlays.",
  "denseCaption": "The icon features a background of diagonal stripes in pink, blue, and green. White hearts and repeated \u0027iY\u0027 text appear across the background. The icon displays changing text overlays: \u0027Hands\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027holding\u0027, \u0027hearts\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027loving\u0027 in black outlined white letters. The animation cycles through these text changes while maintaining the same background elements.",
  "wordwall": [
    "pink blue green diagonal stripes",
    "white hearts",
    "repeated \u0027iY\u0027 text",
    "changing text overlays",
    "black outlined white letters",
    "diagonal stripe background"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "Hands",
    "R 4",
    "holding",
    "hearts",
    "R 4",
    "loving"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "hearts"
  ],
  "actions": [
    "holding",
    "loving"
  ],
  "objects": [
    "hearts"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "pink",
    "blue",
    "green",
    "white",
    "black"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "text-based",
    "repetitive"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "diagonal stripes",
    "repeated background elements",
    "text overlays"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "playful",
    "affectionate"
  ],
  "animation": [
    "text changes"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "Text overlays change between \u0027Hands\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027holding\u0027, \u0027hearts\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027loving\u0027 while background remains static.",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "pink blue green diagonal stripes hearts",
    "iY text hearts holding loving",
    "R 4 hearts holding loving",
    "text-based animated hearts"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "hearts",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: hearts"
    },
    {
      "tag": "holding",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: holding"
    },
    {
      "tag": "loving",
      "category": "action",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: loving"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text based",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-based"
    },
    {
      "tag": "repetitive",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: repetitive"
    },
    {
      "tag": "playful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: playful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "affectionate",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: affectionate"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pink",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pink"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "green",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: green"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "45a0c605664985867dd3aa09281d71c82994f533f846ac475a3826f0ea10ab49",
        "description": "Animated icon with pink, blue, and green diagonal stripes, white hearts, and repeated \u0027iY\u0027 text, displaying changing text overlays.",
        "denseCaption": "The icon features a background of diagonal stripes in pink, blue, and green. White hearts and repeated \u0027iY\u0027 text appear across the background. The icon displays changing text overlays: \u0027Hands\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027holding\u0027, \u0027hearts\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027loving\u0027 in black outlined white letters. The animation cycles through these text changes while maintaining the same background elements.",
        "wordwall": [
          "pink blue green diagonal stripes",
          "white hearts",
          "repeated \u0027iY\u0027 text",
          "changing text overlays",
          "black outlined white letters",
          "diagonal stripe background"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "Hands",
          "R 4",
          "holding",
          "hearts",
          "R 4",
          "loving"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "hearts"
        ],
        "actions": [
          "holding",
          "loving"
        ],
        "objects": [
          "hearts"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "pink",
          "blue",
          "green",
          "white",
          "black"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "text-based",
          "repetitive"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "diagonal stripes",
          "repeated background elements",
          "text overlays"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "playful",
          "affectionate"
        ],
        "animation": [
          "text changes"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "Text overlays change between \u0027Hands\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027holding\u0027, \u0027hearts\u0027, \u0027R 4\u0027, \u0027loving\u0027 while background remains static.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "pink blue green diagonal stripes hearts",
          "iY text hearts holding loving",
          "R 4 hearts holding loving",
          "text-based animated hearts"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
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
200905171507472131661834
Archive entry
200905171507472131661834.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905171507472131661834.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905171507472131661834.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016