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Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines, partially obscured by white rectangular overlays in different positions across four views.

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Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines, partially obscured by white rectangular overlays in different positions across four views.

Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines, partially obscured by white rectangular overlays in different positions across four views. Animated 48×48 GI…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • white rectangles move across text
  • obscure different portions of text in each view

Animation Summary

  • White rectangles move across the text, obscuring different portions of "I LOVE GEN" in each view.

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical overlays

Dense Caption

Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines: "I" on top, "LOVE" in the middle, "GEN" at the bottom. White rectangular overlays partially obscure the text in different positions across four views: top-right overlay covers the top-right portion of "I" and "LOVE"; bottom-left overlay covers the bottom-left portion of "LOVE" and "GEN"; bottom-right overlay covers the bottom-right portion of "GEN"; top-left overlay covers the top-left portion of "I" and "LOVE". Text is pixelated and partially obscured in all views. The overlays are solid white rectangles with sharp edges.

Description

Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines, partially obscured by white rectangular overlays in different positions across four views.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081211165829307535784
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background black text I LOVE GEN
  • text obscured by white rectangles
  • pixelated text with overlays
  • I LOVE GEN white rectangle overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears pixelated and partially obscured in all views

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • GEN

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black text
  • I LOVE GEN
  • three lines
  • white overlays
  • pixelated text
  • partial obscuration
  • solid white rectangles
  • sharp edges
  • four views

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081211165829307535784
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51691f12d626a79d067f9b1246abbee9fef8aca732a34809f8581b56da511461.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
51691f12d626a79d
SHA-256
51691f12d626a79d067f9b1246abbee9fef8aca732a34809f8581b56da511461
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095858

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines, partially obscured by white rectangular overlays in different positions across four views.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,800 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 780

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • obscure different portions of text in each view (other, 0.80)
  • white rectangles move across text (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • obscured

Animation

  • white rectangles move across text
  • obscure different portions of text in each view

Animation Summary

  • White rectangles move across the text, obscuring different portions of "I LOVE GEN" in each view.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical overlays

Dense Caption

Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines: "I" on top, "LOVE" in the middle, "GEN" at the bottom. White rectangular overlays partially obscure the text in different positions across four views: top-right overlay covers the top-right portion of "I" and "LOVE"; bottom-left overlay covers the bottom-left portion of "LOVE" and "GEN"; bottom-right overlay covers the bottom-right portion of "GEN"; top-left overlay covers the top-left portion of "I" and "LOVE". Text is pixelated and partially obscured in all views. The overlays are solid white rectangles with sharp edges.

Description

Green background with black text "I LOVE GEN" arranged in three lines, partially obscured by white rectangular overlays in different positions across four views.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081211165829307535784
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • text obscured by white rectangles
  • pixelated text with overlays
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Objects

  • white rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears pixelated and partially obscured in all views

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • GEN

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black text
  • I LOVE GEN
  • three lines
  • white overlays
  • pixelated text
  • partial obscuration
  • solid white rectangles
  • sharp edges
  • four views
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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
20081211165829307535784
Archive entry
20081211165829307535784.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081211165829307535784.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081211165829307535784.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016