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A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three

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A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three

A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbol changes: plus → star → X

Animation Summary

The white symbol below the text changes sequentially from a plus sign to a star to an X across three observations; all other visual elements remain constant.

Composition

  • three vertical
  • centered text
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Bright pink background; red pixelated sans-serif text reads "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" in all three columns; left column shows a white plus sign, middle column shows a white star, right column shows a white X; left and middle columns have additional small white dots below the main text; animation changes only the symbols: plus → star → X across observations; no other visual elements present.

Description

  • A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901261833161490107692

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Carly Leighton 10.25.08 <3333
  • pink background red text
  • plus star X animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three columns.
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns

Visible Text

  • Carly
  • &
  • Leighton
  • 10.25.08
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • red pixelated text
  • Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333
  • white plus sign
  • white star symbol
  • white X mark
  • small white dots

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901261833161490107692
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
536 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/56/56df2a619af81f38a15a896e1ef795f4f1bad5a71db62f27fe5a97cc42ace34e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
56df2a619af81f38
SHA-256
56df2a619af81f38a15a896e1ef795f4f1bad5a71db62f27fe5a97cc42ace34e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111874

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A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,178 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 660

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
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  • star symbol (object, 0.80)
  • x mark (object, 0.80)
  • animated symbols (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • symbol changes: plus → star → X

Animation Summary

The white symbol below the text changes sequentially from a plus sign to a star to an X across three observations; all other visual elements remain constant.

Colors

  • pink
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • three vertical
  • centered text
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Bright pink background; red pixelated sans-serif text reads "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" in all three columns; left column shows a white plus sign, middle column shows a white star, right column shows a white X; left and middle columns have additional small white dots below the main text; animation changes only the symbols: plus → star → X across observations; no other visual elements present.

Description

  • A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901261833161490107692

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Carly Leighton 10.25.08 <3333
  • pink background red text
  • plus star X animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star symbol
  • X mark
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A bright pink background displays red text reading "Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333" with animated white symbols changing across three columns.
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • animated symbols

Visible Text

  • Carly
  • &
  • Leighton
  • 10.25.08
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • red pixelated text
  • Carly & Leighton 10.25.08 <3333
  • white plus sign
  • white star symbol
  • white X mark
  • small white dots
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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
200901261833161490107692
Archive entry
200901261833161490107692.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901261833161490107692.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901261833161490107692.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016