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Blue text "I Want You" on white background with animated black symbols appearing and disappearing between frames.

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Blue text "I Want You" on white background with animated black symbols appearing and disappearing between frames.

Blue text "I Want You" on white background with animated black symbols appearing and disappearing between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Black symbols change between frames: +, *, × in first ; +, •, ••• in second ; +, •, ••• in third . Text remains static

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbols between text

Dense Caption

Blue text "I Want You" in three lines (I, Want, You) on white background. Animated black symbols: first row shows +, *, ×; second row shows +, •, •••; third row shows +, •, •••. Symbols appear and disappear between frames. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated.

Description

  • Blue text "I Want You" on white background with animated black symbols appearing and disappearing between frames.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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 Want You blue text
  • animated symbols white background
  • pixelated text symbols
  • I Want You symbols changing

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Black symbols change between frames: +, *, × in first row; +, •, ••• in second row; +, •, ••• in third row. Text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: symbols between text rows

Visible Text

  • I Want You

Wordwall

  • I Want You
  • blue text
  • white background
  • + symbol
  • *
  • × symbol
  • • symbol
  • ••• symbol
  • pixelated
  • animated symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707302046012087412792
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1007 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/73818688fbaa295719b67ab611b36d2a69030da8b8f0a9edad24ec1ba5fe4828.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
73818688fbaa2957
SHA-256
73818688fbaa295719b67ab611b36d2a69030da8b8f0a9edad24ec1ba5fe4828
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091665

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue text "I Want You" on white background with animated black symbols appearing and disappearing between frames.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 605

Review tags

  • symbols appear (action, 0.80)
  • symbols disappear (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • symbols (object, 0.80)
  • symbols change between frames (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols appear
  • symbols disappear

Animation

  • symbols change between frames

Animation Summary

  • Black symbols change between frames: +, *, × in first ; +, •, ••• in second ; +, •, ••• in third . Text remains static

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbols between text

Dense Caption

Blue text "I Want You" in three lines (I, Want, You) on white background. Animated black symbols: first row shows +, *, ×; second row shows +, •, •••; third row shows +, •, •••. Symbols appear and disappear between frames. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated.

Description

  • Blue text "I Want You" on white background with animated black symbols appearing and disappearing between frames.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Want You blue text
  • animated symbols white background
  • pixelated text symbols
  • I Want You symbols changing

Objects

  • symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Black symbols change between frames: +, *, × in first row; +, •, ••• in second row; +, •, ••• in third row. Text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: symbols between text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I Want You

Wordwall

  • I Want You
  • blue text
  • white background
  • + symbol
  • *
  • × symbol
  • • symbol
  • ••• symbol
  • pixelated
  • animated symbols
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:52 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200707302046012087412792
Archive entry
200707302046012087412792.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707302046012087412792.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707302046012087412792.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016