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A pixelated image of a person with green text appearing sequentially over their head.

A pixelated image of a person with green text appearing sequentially over their head. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'you'
  • text position shifts from top center to top right to left side

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'you', with position shifting from top center to top right to left side.

Composition

  • close-up face
  • text above head
  • text below head in later frame

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. Green, blocky, lowercase text appears in sequence: first "i" at the top center (top-left panel), then "love" replacing it at the top right (top-right panel), followed by "you" appearing below the head on the left side (bottom-left panel). The background is dark and indistinct. The person has light-colored hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and part of a shoulder. The image quality is low-resolution with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with green text appearing sequentially over their head.

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
  • 2007091416013913787980

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green text i love you
  • pixelated face green text sequence
  • text appears sequentially pixelated image
  • low resolution green blocky text

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • you

Wordwall

  • green blocky text
  • pixelated face
  • light hair
  • dark background
  • text sequence

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007091416013913787980
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
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74ac5799f865254de371993f02dccd644a9fe393a48512365ba557b5e7c221ee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
74ac5799f865254d
SHA-256
74ac5799f865254de371993f02dccd644a9fe393a48512365ba557b5e7c221ee
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120166

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a person with green text appearing sequentially over their head.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:01 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,353 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 694

Review tags

  • text appears sequentially (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes from i to love to you (other, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text appears sequentially

Animation

  • text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'you'
  • text position shifts from top center to top right to left side

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'you', with position shifting from top center to top right to left side.

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up face
  • text above head
  • text below head in later frame

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. Green, blocky, lowercase text appears in sequence: first "i" at the top center (top-left panel), then "love" replacing it at the top right (top-right panel), followed by "you" appearing below the head on the left side (bottom-left panel). The background is dark and indistinct. The person has light-colored hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and part of a shoulder. The image quality is low-resolution with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with green text appearing sequentially over their head.

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
  • 2007091416013913787980

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green text i love you
  • pixelated face green text sequence
  • text appears sequentially pixelated image
  • low resolution green blocky text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • you

Wordwall

  • green blocky text
  • pixelated face
  • light hair
  • dark background
  • text sequence
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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
2007091416013913787980
Archive entry
2007091416013913787980.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#2007091416013913787980.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007091416013913787980.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016