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Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a

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Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a

Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations show identical static content.

Composition

  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

Light blue background with scattered white starbursts. Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid: top-left "sara <3 <333", top-right "sara <3 <333", bottom-left "sara <3 <333", bottom-right "sara <3 <333". Each text block uses a retro pixel font with blue characters on light blue background. No visible animation changes across observations. All text is exact and fully readable. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols present beyond text and background elements.

Description

  • Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sara <3 <333 pixel art
  • light blue starburst text
  • blue text
  • retro pixel font sara <3 <333
  • blue text light blue background starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue text

Visible Text

  • sara <3 <333

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white starbursts
  • four identical text blocks
  • blue pixelated text
  • "sara <3 <333"
  • retro pixel font
  • exact text reading

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708171908501291300767
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
616 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/476645f01bb069d49160a8b51d0ce9038326dadf782c8c2484ebf15c15ae02af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
476645f01bb069d4
SHA-256
476645f01bb069d49160a8b51d0ce9038326dadf782c8c2484ebf15c15ae02af
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087587

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,660 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 780

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations show identical static content.

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

Light blue background with scattered white starbursts. Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid: top-left "sara <3 <333", top-right "sara <3 <333", bottom-left "sara <3 <333", bottom-right "sara <3 <333". Each text block uses a retro pixel font with blue characters on light blue background. No visible animation changes across observations. All text is exact and fully readable. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols present beyond text and background elements.

Description

  • Light blue background with white starbursts; four identical blue pixelated text blocks reading "sara <3 <333" arranged in a

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sara <3 <333 pixel art
  • light blue starburst text
  • blue text
  • retro pixel font sara <3 <333
  • blue text light blue background starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
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Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

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  • sara <3 <333

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white starbursts
  • four identical text blocks
  • blue pixelated text
  • "sara <3 <333"
  • retro pixel font
  • exact text reading
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:01 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708171908501291300767
Archive entry
200708171908501291300767.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708171908501291300767.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708171908501291300767.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016