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Orange background with repeated black text '#17 4 life!!!' and pixelated white symbols including a heart, starburst, and dots.

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Orange background with repeated black text '#17 4 life!!!' and pixelated white symbols including a heart, starburst, and dots.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-right starburst is static, no visible motion change between frames

Composition

  • horizontal text lines
  • centered symbols
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Solid orange background. Two identical horizontal lines of black pixelated text reading '#17 4 life!!!'. Top line has a small white pixelated heart centered above the first 'life!!!', and a white pixelated starburst to the right of the second 'life!!!'. Bottom line has a white pixelated dot cluster centered between the two 'life!!!' texts. All elements are static except for the top-right starburst which appears as a single frame with no visible animation.

Description

  • Orange background with repeated black text '#17 4 life!!!' and pixelated white symbols including a heart, starburst, and dots.

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
  • 20071007160733155056384

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • #17 4 life!!! orange background
  • pixelated heart starburst dots
  • text-based buddy icon
  • low-resolution animation static

Visible Text

  • #17 4 life!!!

Wordwall

  • #17 4 life!!!
  • orange background
  • black text
  • white heart
  • white starburst
  • white dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071007160733155056384
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
314 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/754aa54499d76ddca2012b4f4f5317d374ecc6e02dea69ec240d145fcbe5786f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
754aa54499d76ddc
SHA-256
754aa54499d76ddca2012b4f4f5317d374ecc6e02dea69ec240d145fcbe5786f
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
0.087518

OpenAI category scores

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Orange background with repeated black text '#17 4 life!!!' and pixelated white symbols including a heart, starburst, and dots.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:11 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,065 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 672

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right starburst is static, no visible motion change between frames

Colors

  • orange
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text lines
  • centered symbols
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Solid orange background. Two identical horizontal lines of black pixelated text reading '#17 4 life!!!'. Top line has a small white pixelated heart centered above the first 'life!!!', and a white pixelated starburst to the right of the second 'life!!!'. Bottom line has a white pixelated dot cluster centered between the two 'life!!!' texts. All elements are static except for the top-right starburst which appears as a single frame with no visible animation.

Description

  • Orange background with repeated black text '#17 4 life!!!' and pixelated white symbols including a heart, starburst, and dots.

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
  • 20071007160733155056384

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • #17 4 life!!! orange background
  • pixelated heart starburst dots
  • text-based buddy icon
  • low-resolution animation static

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • #17 4 life!!!

Wordwall

  • #17 4 life!!!
  • orange background
  • black text
  • white heart
  • white starburst
  • white dots
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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
20071007160733155056384
Archive entry
20071007160733155056384.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071007160733155056384.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071007160733155056384.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016