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Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a , showing animation changes between frames

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Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a , showing animation changes between frames

Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a , showing animation changes between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart replaces starburst in top-left frame
  • starburst appears center frame

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces starburst in top-left frame; starburst appears center frame. All text remains static.

Composition

  • four two

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Four rows of two columns each: top row has 'I' above heart or starburst; middle rows have 'love', 'chad', 'I'; bottom rows repeat 'love', 'chad'. Green pixel clusters form heart (top-left) and starburst (top-right, center). Text is pink, blocky, pixelated. Animation changes: top-left heart replaces starburst in second frame; center starburst appears in third frame. All text remains static except symbol swaps.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a , showing animation changes between frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709150933001931123048
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text green symbols
  • heart starburst animation 'I love chad'
  • pixelated retro digital

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a grid layout, showing animation changes between frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows two columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows two columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated retro digital grid layout

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • chad

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • green heart symbol
  • green starburst symbol
  • four two
  • 'I' text
  • 'love' text
  • 'chad' text
  • heart replaces starburst
  • starburst appears center

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709150933001931123048
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/633f5f741d2e0dc1355454976cc47e477facafbd2c694058c0dae8a8f3adc498.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
633f5f741d2e0dc1
SHA-256
633f5f741d2e0dc1355454976cc47e477facafbd2c694058c0dae8a8f3adc498
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.417069

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a , showing animation changes between frames

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,181 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 613

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol (object, 0.80)
  • heart replaces starburst in top left frame (other, 0.80)
  • starburst appears center frame (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart replaces starburst in top-left frame
  • starburst appears center frame

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol replaces starburst in top-left frame; starburst appears center frame. All text remains static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • four two

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Four rows of two columns each: top row has 'I' above heart or starburst; middle rows have 'love', 'chad', 'I'; bottom rows repeat 'love', 'chad'. Green pixel clusters form heart (top-left) and starburst (top-right, center). Text is pink, blocky, pixelated. Animation changes: top-left heart replaces starburst in second frame; center starburst appears in third frame. All text remains static except symbol swaps.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a , showing animation changes between frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709150933001931123048
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text green symbols
  • heart starburst animation 'I love chad'
  • pixelated retro digital

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan background with pink text and green symbols in a grid layout, showing animation changes between frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows two columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows two columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated retro digital grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • chad

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • green heart symbol
  • green starburst symbol
  • four two
  • 'I' text
  • 'love' text
  • 'chad' text
  • heart replaces starburst
  • starburst appears center
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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
200709150933001931123048
Archive entry
200709150933001931123048.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#200709150933001931123048.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709150933001931123048.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016