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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with red star-like shapes flanking the word 'love' in blue letters.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with red star-like shapes flanking the word 'love' in blue letters.

Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with red star-like shapes flanking the word 'love' in blue letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left configuration has gray pixels replacing red stars; right configuration shows solid red stars without gray replacement

Animation Summary

  • The left configuration has gray pixels replacing red stars; the right configuration shows solid red stars without gray replacement.

Composition

  • centered text and symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated purple text: 'hunter', '+', 'emma', '=', then two identical configurations of red star-like shapes flanking blue 'love' text. The left configuration has gray pixels replacing some red stars; the right configuration shows all red stars as solid red without gray replacement.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with red star-like shapes flanking the word 'love' in blue letters.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090312175719578249435

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text
  • red star love cyan
  • gray pixel replacements

Visible Text

  • hunter
  • +
  • emma
  • =
  • love

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • red star-like shapes
  • blue 'love' text
  • gray pixel replacements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090312175719578249435
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
293 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
7c9be764e0e6a1f0
SHA-256
7c9be764e0e6a1f05cb5b54ca3112f219984a646ed4d5829a1ca41e506e2e8c2
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 05:34 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010103

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July 23, 2026 at 17:14 UTC
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1078
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Overall label
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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with red star-like shapes flanking the word 'love' in blue letters.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,601 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 636

Review tags

  • replaced pixels (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • letters (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • replaced pixels

Animation

  • left configuration has gray pixels replacing red stars; right configuration shows solid red stars without gray replacement

Animation Summary

  • The left configuration has gray pixels replacing red stars; the right configuration shows solid red stars without gray replacement.

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • red
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text and symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated purple text: 'hunter', '+', 'emma', '=', then two identical configurations of red star-like shapes flanking blue 'love' text. The left configuration has gray pixels replacing some red stars; the right configuration shows all red stars as solid red without gray replacement.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with red star-like shapes flanking the word 'love' in blue letters.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090312175719578249435

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text
  • red star love cyan
  • gray pixel replacements

Objects

  • stars
  • letters

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • hunter
  • +
  • emma
  • =
  • love

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • red star-like shapes
  • blue 'love' text
  • gray pixel replacements
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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
20090312175719578249435
Archive entry
20090312175719578249435.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090312175719578249435.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090312175719578249435.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016