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Blue background with repeated white text "I <3 Collin!" and pink pixelated heart and starburst symbols.

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Blue background with repeated white text "I <3 Collin!" and pink pixelated heart and starburst symbols.

Blue background with repeated white text "I <3 Collin!" and pink pixelated heart and starburst symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered
  • repeated text
  • repeated symbols

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Four instances of white pixelated text "I <3 Collin!" arranged in two rows of two. Top row text is horizontally centered; bottom row text is horizontally centered. Above top-left text is a pink pixelated heart. Above top-right text is a pink pixelated starburst. Centered between rows is a pink pixelated starburst. All text and symbols are static.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "I <3 Collin!" and pink pixelated heart and starburst symbols.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I <3 Collin!
  • blue background pink heart
  • pixelated text heart
  • Collin buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal text rows

Visible Text

  • I <3 Collin!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • I <3 Collin!
  • pink heart
  • pink starburst
  • pixelated
  • four text instances
  • horizontal text
  • centered text
  • static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070831151404808974281
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
303 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6ea0cb35084147bf45223d8cb063560f382b721ea3338ded865d34e5fb651aaa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
6ea0cb35084147bf
SHA-256
6ea0cb35084147bf45223d8cb063560f382b721ea3338ded865d34e5fb651aaa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116396

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with repeated white text "I <3 Collin!" and pink pixelated heart and starburst symbols.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 597

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered
  • repeated text
  • repeated symbols

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Four instances of white pixelated text "I <3 Collin!" arranged in two rows of two. Top row text is horizontally centered; bottom row text is horizontally centered. Above top-left text is a pink pixelated heart. Above top-right text is a pink pixelated starburst. Centered between rows is a pink pixelated starburst. All text and symbols are static.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "I <3 Collin!" and pink pixelated heart and starburst symbols.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I <3 Collin!
  • blue background pink heart
  • pixelated text heart
  • Collin buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • I <3 Collin!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • I <3 Collin!
  • pink heart
  • pink starburst
  • pixelated
  • four text instances
  • horizontal text
  • centered text
  • static
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Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
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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
20070831151404808974281
Archive entry
20070831151404808974281.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070831151404808974281.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070831151404808974281.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016