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Pixelated text reads 'lurve makin bbb=' over a dark background with yellow and brown pixel clusters.

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Pixelated text reads 'lurve makin bbb=' over a dark background with yellow and brown pixel clusters.

Pixelated text reads 'lurve makin bbb=' over a dark background with yellow and brown pixel clusters. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal text lines
  • text centered on black rectangles
  • background with scattered light clusters

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution digital graphic featuring three lines of white pixelated text on black rectangular backgrounds. The top line reads 'lurve', the middle line reads 'makin', and the bottom line reads 'bbb='. The text uses a blocky, retro-style font with visible pixelation. Behind the text blocks, the background consists of dark blue or black areas interspersed with yellow and brown pixel clusters that resemble blurred light sources or abstract shapes. There are no additional visual elements such as characters, objects, or symbols beyond the text and background pattern.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'lurve makin bbb=' over a dark background with yellow and brown pixel clusters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080531234444461450831

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lurve makin bbb= pixelated text
  • white blocky text on black rectangles
  • dark background yellow brown clusters

Visible Text

  • lurve
  • makin
  • bbb=

Wordwall

  • text: 'lurve'
  • text: 'makin'
  • text: 'bbb='
  • font style: blocky pixelated
  • background: dark with yellow/brown clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080531234444461450831
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
534544b56d965345
SHA-256
534544b56d965345284cfc92077baf0f37a625a71f227dac7d83ab232c3fc871
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 21:10 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010268

OpenAI category scores

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076460

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'lurve makin bbb=' over a dark background with yellow and brown pixel clusters.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 21:07 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,337 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • yellow
  • brown

Composition

  • three horizontal text lines
  • text centered on black rectangles
  • background with scattered light clusters

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution digital graphic featuring three lines of white pixelated text on black rectangular backgrounds. The top line reads 'lurve', the middle line reads 'makin', and the bottom line reads 'bbb='. The text uses a blocky, retro-style font with visible pixelation. Behind the text blocks, the background consists of dark blue or black areas interspersed with yellow and brown pixel clusters that resemble blurred light sources or abstract shapes. There are no additional visual elements such as characters, objects, or symbols beyond the text and background pattern.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'lurve makin bbb=' over a dark background with yellow and brown pixel clusters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080531234444461450831

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lurve makin bbb= pixelated text
  • white blocky text on black rectangles
  • dark background yellow brown clusters

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • lurve
  • makin
  • bbb=

Wordwall

  • text: 'lurve'
  • text: 'makin'
  • text: 'bbb='
  • font style: blocky pixelated
  • background: dark with yellow/brown clusters
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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
20080531234444461450831
Archive entry
20080531234444461450831.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080531234444461450831.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080531234444461450831.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016