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Green background with four identical dark green circular icons displaying pink text "I LOVE U COLE" and pink exclamation marks below.

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Green background with four identical dark green circular icons displaying pink text "I LOVE U COLE" and pink exclamation marks below.

Green background with four identical dark green circular icons displaying pink text "I LOVE U COLE" and pink exclamation marks below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical circular icons
  • text centered in circles

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons on a bright green background. Each icon has a dark green circular field with pink text: "I" at the top, "LOVE" below it, "U" below "LOVE", and "COLE" at the bottom. Below "COLE" are six pink exclamation marks. The icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The text and exclamation marks have a pixelated appearance. The icons are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Green background with four identical dark green circular icons displaying pink text "I LOVE U COLE" and pink exclamation marks below.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LOVE U COLE
  • green background pink text
  • six exclamation marks
  • pixelated text
  • dark green circles
  • text-based icon
  • affectionate mood

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • U
  • COLE
  • !!!

Wordwall

  • green background
  • dark green circles
  • pink text
  • I LOVE U COLE
  • six exclamation marks
  • pixelated text
  • identical icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708272008422117601623
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7ac4fda85c8c7509e99661db333b2cea3daa124cd7d21c162ec2cd6510b2e0ec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
7ac4fda85c8c7509
SHA-256
7ac4fda85c8c7509e99661db333b2cea3daa124cd7d21c162ec2cd6510b2e0ec
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067395

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

Green background with four identical dark green circular icons displaying pink text "I LOVE U COLE" and pink exclamation marks below.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,387 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 711

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • exclamation marks (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • dark green
  • pink

Composition

  • identical circular icons
  • text centered in circles

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Green background with four identical dark green circular icons displaying pink text "I LOVE U COLE" and pink exclamation marks below.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LOVE U COLE
  • green background pink text
  • six exclamation marks
  • pixelated text
  • dark green circles
  • text-based icon
  • affectionate mood

Objects

  • text
  • exclamation marks

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • exclamation marks

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • U
  • COLE
  • !!!

Wordwall

  • green background
  • dark green circles
  • pink text
  • I LOVE U COLE
  • six exclamation marks
  • pixelated text
  • identical icons
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:23 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
200708272008422117601623
Archive entry
200708272008422117601623.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708272008422117601623.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708272008422117601623.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016