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Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple

Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • scattered pixel clusters on background

Dense Caption

The image features a dark blue background with numerous small light blue pixel clusters scattered throughout. Four instances of the text 'I<3 Shawn' appear in cyan-colored block letters: two on an upper row (left to right), one centered below them, and one lower-left. The text uses a stylized heart symbol '<3' between 'I' and 'Shawn'. Pixelation is visible across all elements.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple

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

Named Entities

  • Shawn

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I<3 Shawn
  • cyan text blue background
  • pixelated I<3 Shawn
  • repeated I<3 Shawn

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: multiple rows of text
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Visible Text

  • I<3 Shawn

Visually Supported Entities

  • Shawn

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • light blue pixel clusters
  • cyan block letters
  • 'I<3 Shawn' repeated four times
  • <3 as heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • multiple of text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080106134852893036403
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f4ee8baffc74e5036f86ef0355388c8b59255f87376d398dfcbdc824b4b0598.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
4f4ee8baffc74e50
SHA-256
4f4ee8baffc74e5036f86ef0355388c8b59255f87376d398dfcbdc824b4b0598
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094808

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:21 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,176 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 599

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • block letters (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • text i 3 shawn (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • cyan

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • scattered pixel clusters on background

Dense Caption

The image features a dark blue background with numerous small light blue pixel clusters scattered throughout. Four instances of the text 'I<3 Shawn' appear in cyan-colored block letters: two on an upper row (left to right), one centered below them, and one lower-left. The text uses a stylized heart symbol '<3' between 'I' and 'Shawn'. Pixelation is visible across all elements.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Shawn

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I<3 Shawn
  • cyan text blue background
  • pixelated I<3 Shawn
  • repeated I<3 Shawn

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with scattered light blue pixels and repeated text 'I<3 Shawn' in cyan, displayed across multiple rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: multiple rows of text
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • block letters
  • repetitive text layout

Subjects

  • text 'I<3 Shawn'

Visible Text

  • I<3 Shawn

Visually Supported Entities

  • Shawn

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • light blue pixel clusters
  • cyan block letters
  • 'I<3 Shawn' repeated four times
  • <3 as heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • multiple of text
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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
20080106134852893036403
Archive entry
20080106134852893036403.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080106134852893036403.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080106134852893036403.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016