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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan star and dot animations; repeated 'Single <3' and 'Ask me Out <3' phrases in white block letters.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan star and dot animations; repeated 'Single <3' and 'Ask me Out <3' phrases in white block letters.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan star and dot animations; repeated 'Single <3' and 'Ask me Out <3' phrases in white block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Action

Style

Color

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Animation

  • stars alternate with dots
  • star position shifts between upper-left and lower-right corners

Animation Summary

  • Cyan star and dot animations alternate; stars appear in upper-left for "Single <3" , lower-right for "Ask me Out <3"

Composition

  • two of text
  • three per
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating grid of two distinct text blocks: top row reads "Single <3" (white pixelated sans-serif font) with cyan star-and-dot animation above it, bottom row reads "Ask me Out <3" (same font). Animation alternates between cyan star and dot patterns; stars appear in upper-left corner for "Single <3" rows and lower-right corner for "Ask me Out <3" rows. All text is static except for animated elements.

Description

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan star and dot animations; repeated 'Single <3' and 'Ask me Out <3' phrases in white block letters.

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
  • 20071001124952992674012

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • single ask me out cyan animation
  • pixelated text black background
  • repeating cyan star dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Cyan star and dot animations alternate; stars appear in upper-left for "Single <3" rows, lower-right for "Ask me Out <3" rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating grid layout
  • quarantined style: repeating grid
  • quarantined composition: three columns per row
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating grid cyan star dots

Visible Text

  • Single <3
  • Ask me Out <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated sans-serif text
  • cyan star animation
  • cyan dot animation
  • "Single <3" text
  • "Ask me Out <3" text
  • repeating
  • star appears upper-left
  • star appears lower-right

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071001124952992674012
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
632 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/65f2e164569f698ffdde3d4cf405abc1069e2889677b3053acca41fc8a275270.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
65f2e164569f698f
SHA-256
65f2e164569f698ffdde3d4cf405abc1069e2889677b3053acca41fc8a275270
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075474

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan star and dot animations; repeated 'Single <3' and 'Ask me Out <3' phrases in white block letters.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,921 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 718

Review tags

  • dots animate (action, 0.80)
  • stars animate (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • stars alternate with dots (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars animate
  • dots animate

Animation

  • stars alternate with dots
  • star position shifts between upper-left and lower-right corners

Animation Summary

  • Cyan star and dot animations alternate; stars appear in upper-left for "Single <3" , lower-right for "Ask me Out <3"

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • two of text
  • three per
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating grid of two distinct text blocks: top row reads "Single <3" (white pixelated sans-serif font) with cyan star-and-dot animation above it, bottom row reads "Ask me Out <3" (same font). Animation alternates between cyan star and dot patterns; stars appear in upper-left corner for "Single <3" rows and lower-right corner for "Ask me Out <3" rows. All text is static except for animated elements.

Description

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan star and dot animations; repeated 'Single <3' and 'Ask me Out <3' phrases in white block letters.

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
  • 20071001124952992674012

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • single ask me out cyan animation
  • pixelated text black background
  • repeating cyan star dots

Objects

  • <3 heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Cyan star and dot animations alternate; stars appear in upper-left for "Single <3" rows, lower-right for "Ask me Out <3" rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating grid layout
  • quarantined style: repeating grid
  • quarantined composition: three columns per row
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating grid cyan star dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repeating

Visible Text

  • Single <3
  • Ask me Out <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated sans-serif text
  • cyan star animation
  • cyan dot animation
  • "Single <3" text
  • "Ask me Out <3" text
  • repeating
  • star appears upper-left
  • star appears lower-right
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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
20071001124952992674012
Archive entry
20071001124952992674012.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20071001124952992674012.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071001124952992674012.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016