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Pixelated blue background with repeated 'i love s.o.s' text and pink/purple star animations in four corners.

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Pixelated blue background with repeated 'i love s.o.s' text and pink/purple star animations in four corners.

Pixelated blue background with repeated 'i love s.o.s' text and pink/purple star animations in four corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-left star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails
  • top-right star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails
  • bottom-left star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails
  • bottom-right star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails

Animation Summary

Four corner star animations alternate between pink and purple with dotted trails while static text 'i love s.o.s' remains on light blue background.

Composition

  • four corners
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Light blue background with repeated text 'i love s.o.s' in blue pixelated font. Four corner animations: top-left and bottom-left stars alternate between pink and purple with dotted trails; top-right and bottom-right stars alternate between pink and purple with dotted trails. Text remains static. Star animations cycle through color changes and trail patterns. All elements maintain consistent pixelated style.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with repeated 'i love s.o.s' text and pink/purple star animations in four corners.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love s.o.s
  • pink purple stars
  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • four corner animations
  • dotted star trails
  • retro style
  • blue text

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • s.o.s

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • blue text
  • i love s.o.s
  • pink star
  • purple star
  • dotted trails
  • four corners
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • star animations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820145116490088373
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
881 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/78e64d933b88f99ce489f855be1e6420dfc1bdc48bf6e6a427f540c8e215bdaf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
78e64d933b88f99c
SHA-256
78e64d933b88f99ce489f855be1e6420dfc1bdc48bf6e6a427f540c8e215bdaf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:07 UTC
Run
1057
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106899

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

Pixelated blue background with repeated 'i love s.o.s' text and pink/purple star animations in four corners.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,424 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 738

Review tags

  • color changes (action, 0.80)
  • star animations (action, 0.80)
  • trail patterns (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star animations
  • color changes
  • trail patterns

Animation

  • top-left star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails
  • top-right star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails
  • bottom-left star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails
  • bottom-right star alternates pink/purple with dotted trails

Animation Summary

Four corner star animations alternate between pink and purple with dotted trails while static text 'i love s.o.s' remains on light blue background.

Colors

  • light blue
  • blue
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • four corners
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Light blue background with repeated text 'i love s.o.s' in blue pixelated font. Four corner animations: top-left and bottom-left stars alternate between pink and purple with dotted trails; top-right and bottom-right stars alternate between pink and purple with dotted trails. Text remains static. Star animations cycle through color changes and trail patterns. All elements maintain consistent pixelated style.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with repeated 'i love s.o.s' text and pink/purple star animations in four corners.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love s.o.s
  • pink purple stars
  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • four corner animations
  • dotted star trails
  • retro style
  • blue text

Objects

  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • stars

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • s.o.s

Wordwall

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  • blue text
  • i love s.o.s
  • pink star
  • purple star
  • dotted trails
  • four corners
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • star animations
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:22 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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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
20070820145116490088373
Archive entry
20070820145116490088373.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070820145116490088373.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820145116490088373.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016