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Blue background with white pixelated text reading 'i love stephen' and five pink/purple asterisk symbols below, showing animation change in symbol colors.

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Blue background with white pixelated text reading 'i love stephen' and five pink/purple asterisk symbols below, showing animation change in symbol colors.

Blue background with white pixelated text reading 'i love stephen' and five pink/purple asterisk symbols below, showing animation change in symbol colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • leftmost two asterisks shift from bright pink to darker pink between frames

Animation Summary

The leftmost two asterisk symbols change color from bright pink to a slightly darker pink while the remaining three symbols remain unchanged.

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • symbols aligned below text

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixelated text: top row 'i', middle row 'love', bottom row 'stephen'. Below the text, five small asterisk-shaped symbols arranged horizontally. Leftmost four symbols are bright pink; center symbol is purple. In the second observation frame, leftmost two symbols change from bright pink to slightly darker pink while the remaining three symbols remain unchanged.

Description

Blue background with white pixelated text reading 'i love stephen' and five pink/purple asterisk symbols below, showing animation change in symbol colors.

Identity Hypotheses

  • stephen

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
  • 20080210145515213961200
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • stephen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love stephen
  • blue background pixel art
  • pink purple asterisks animation
  • stephen text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 'stephen' bottom row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'love' middle row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'i' on top row

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • stephen

Visually Supported Entities

  • stephen

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'i' on top
  • 'love' middle
  • 'stephen' bottom
  • five asterisk symbols below
  • bright pink symbols
  • purple center symbol
  • animation: color change in leftmost two symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080210145515213961200
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
270 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7ab17b48fbed258c82b514cac8681515bd4a93de76dd4cccab762db682ef3d02.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
7ab17b48fbed258c
SHA-256
7ab17b48fbed258c82b514cac8681515bd4a93de76dd4cccab762db682ef3d02
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070810

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated text reading 'i love stephen' and five pink/purple asterisk symbols below, showing animation change in symbol colors.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,600 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 712

Review tags

  • symbols change color leftmost two (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static text with animated elements (style, 0.80)
  • asterisk symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text i love stephen (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change color (leftmost two)

Animation

  • leftmost two asterisks shift from bright pink to darker pink between frames

Animation Summary

The leftmost two asterisk symbols change color from bright pink to a slightly darker pink while the remaining three symbols remain unchanged.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • bright pink
  • purple

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • symbols aligned below text

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixelated text: top row 'i', middle row 'love', bottom row 'stephen'. Below the text, five small asterisk-shaped symbols arranged horizontally. Leftmost four symbols are bright pink; center symbol is purple. In the second observation frame, leftmost two symbols change from bright pink to slightly darker pink while the remaining three symbols remain unchanged.

Description

Blue background with white pixelated text reading 'i love stephen' and five pink/purple asterisk symbols below, showing animation change in symbol colors.

Identity Hypotheses

  • stephen

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
  • 20080210145515213961200
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • stephen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love stephen
  • blue background pixel art
  • pink purple asterisks animation
  • stephen text icon

Objects

  • asterisk symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 'stephen' bottom row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'love' middle row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'i' on top row

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static text with animated elements

Subjects

  • text 'i love stephen'
  • asterisk symbols

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • stephen

Visually Supported Entities

  • stephen

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'i' on top
  • 'love' middle
  • 'stephen' bottom
  • five asterisk symbols below
  • bright pink symbols
  • purple center symbol
  • animation: color change in leftmost two symbols
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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
20080210145515213961200
Archive entry
20080210145515213961200.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080210145515213961200.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080210145515213961200.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016