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Pixelated white text on dark green background with four distinct animation states showing heart and starburst effects above the text.

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Pixelated white text on dark green background with four distinct animation states showing heart and starburst effects above the text.

Pixelated white text on dark green background with four distinct animation states showing heart and starburst effects above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears above 'eric' in top-left frame
  • starburst appears to right of 'eric' in top-right frame
  • starburst appears left of 'eric' in bottom-left frame
  • no effects in bottom-right frame

Animation Summary

Four-state animation showing heart and starburst effects appearing in different positions above 'eric' text while all other elements remain static.

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • four-state animation

Dense Caption

Dark green background. White pixelated text: 'eric', 'and', 'victor', '02/09' arranged vertically in all frames. Four animation states: top-left frame has white heart above 'eric'; top-right frame has white starburst to right of 'eric'; bottom-left frame has white starburst left of 'eric'; bottom-right frame is static with no additional effects. All text and background remain consistent across states.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on dark green background with four distinct animation states showing heart and starburst effects above the text.

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

  • eric

Named Entities

  • victor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 02/09 victor eric
  • heart starburst 02/09
  • victor eric dark green background
  • pixelated animation heart starburst

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-state animation grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) but image shows no date evidence beyond '02/09' text

Visible Text

  • eric
  • and
  • victor
  • 02/09

Visually Supported Entities

  • victor

Wordwall

  • dark green background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'eric' on first line
  • 'and' on second line
  • 'victor' on third line
  • '02/09' on fourth line
  • heart effect in top-left state
  • starburst effect in top-right state
  • starburst effect in bottom-left state

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090526173150130021273
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d2985523874d470161f9c570b783d21a1fae2a5fdf815fbb6b651325f5197fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
6d2985523874d470
SHA-256
6d2985523874d470161f9c570b783d21a1fae2a5fdf815fbb6b651325f5197fa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072965

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated white text on dark green background with four distinct animation states showing heart and starburst effects above the text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,294 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 758

Review tags

  • heart appears (action, 0.80)
  • starburst appears (action, 0.80)
  • starburst moves (action, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • animated text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears
  • starburst appears
  • starburst moves

Animation

  • heart appears above 'eric' in top-left frame
  • starburst appears to right of 'eric' in top-right frame
  • starburst appears left of 'eric' in bottom-left frame
  • no effects in bottom-right frame

Animation Summary

Four-state animation showing heart and starburst effects appearing in different positions above 'eric' text while all other elements remain static.

Colors

  • dark green
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • four-state animation

Dense Caption

Dark green background. White pixelated text: 'eric', 'and', 'victor', '02/09' arranged vertically in all frames. Four animation states: top-left frame has white heart above 'eric'; top-right frame has white starburst to right of 'eric'; bottom-left frame has white starburst left of 'eric'; bottom-right frame is static with no additional effects. All text and background remain consistent across states.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on dark green background with four distinct animation states showing heart and starburst effects above the text.

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

  • eric

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • victor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 02/09 victor eric
  • heart starburst 02/09
  • victor eric dark green background
  • pixelated animation heart starburst

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-state animation grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) but image shows no date evidence beyond '02/09' text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated text

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • eric
  • and
  • victor
  • 02/09

Visually Supported Entities

  • victor

Wordwall

  • dark green background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'eric' on first line
  • 'and' on second line
  • 'victor' on third line
  • '02/09' on fourth line
  • heart effect in top-left state
  • starburst effect in top-right state
  • starburst effect in bottom-left state
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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
20090526173150130021273
Archive entry
20090526173150130021273.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090526173150130021273.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090526173150130021273.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016