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A pink background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love alec 3/10/08' and green pixelated symbols above the 'i', showing a heart, starburst, dots, and another starburst.

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A pink background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love alec 3/10/08' and green pixelated symbols above the 'i', showing a heart, starburst, dots, and another starburst.

A pink background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love alec 3/10/08' and green pixelated symbols above the 'i', showing a heart, starburst, dots, and another starburst…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change: heart → starburst → dots → starburst

Animation Summary

  • Green pixelated symbols above 'i' animate sequentially: heart, starburst, scattered dots, then starburst again.

Composition

  • four identical text blocks
  • symmetrical layout
  • central alignment of text and symbols

Dense Caption

Pink background. Four identical black text blocks: 'i' (top), 'love' (middle), 'alec' (below love), '3/10/08' (bottom). Above each 'i', green pixelated symbol: top-left is heart, top-right and bottom-right are starbursts, bottom-left is scattered dots. Symbols animate sequentially across observations.

Description

A pink background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love alec 3/10/08' and green pixelated symbols above the 'i', showing a heart, starburst, dots, and another starburst.

Identity Hypotheses

  • alec

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080312124552584325153
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background i love alec 3/10/08
  • green heart starburst dots animation
  • text-based buddy icon pink green black
  • i love alec

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text blocks arranged in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid i love alec

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • alec
  • 3/10/08

Visually Supported Entities

  • alec

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text
  • 'i love alec 3/10/08'
  • green pixelated symbols
  • heart animation
  • starburst animation
  • dots animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080312124552584325153
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/56/562b3359261ad9f8240c28e5d17f72b8300908298f115c420ec55d796327e718.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
562b3359261ad9f8
SHA-256
562b3359261ad9f8240c28e5d17f72b8300908298f115c420ec55d796327e718
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 10:24 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000710

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
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A pink background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love alec 3/10/08' and green pixelated symbols above the 'i', showing a heart, starburst, dots, and another starburst.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,621 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 762

Review tags

  • symbols animate (action, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • green dots (object, 0.80)
  • green heart (object, 0.80)
  • green starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols animate

Animation

  • symbols change: heart → starburst → dots → starburst

Animation Summary

  • Green pixelated symbols above 'i' animate sequentially: heart, starburst, scattered dots, then starburst again.

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • four identical text blocks
  • symmetrical layout
  • central alignment of text and symbols

Dense Caption

Pink background. Four identical black text blocks: 'i' (top), 'love' (middle), 'alec' (below love), '3/10/08' (bottom). Above each 'i', green pixelated symbol: top-left is heart, top-right and bottom-right are starbursts, bottom-left is scattered dots. Symbols animate sequentially across observations.

Description

A pink background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love alec 3/10/08' and green pixelated symbols above the 'i', showing a heart, starburst, dots, and another starburst.

Identity Hypotheses

  • alec

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080312124552584325153
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background i love alec 3/10/08
  • green heart starburst dots animation
  • text-based buddy icon pink green black
  • i love alec

Objects

  • green heart
  • green starbursts
  • green dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text blocks arranged in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid i love alec

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • pixelated symbols

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • alec
  • 3/10/08

Visually Supported Entities

  • alec

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text
  • 'i love alec 3/10/08'
  • green pixelated symbols
  • heart animation
  • starburst animation
  • dots animation
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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
20080312124552584325153
Archive entry
20080312124552584325153.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080312124552584325153.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080312124552584325153.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016