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Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical arranged in a

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Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical arranged in a

Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • light burst effect shifts position

Animation Summary

  • Light burst effect shifts position across four

Composition

  • text centered
  • light burst centered

Dense Caption

Red background with white light burst effect. Black text "I LUV" on top line, "CARLY" on bottom line. Four identical panels arranged in 2x2 grid. Each panel shows the same text and background. Light burst effect has a bright center with radial gradient. Text is pixelated. The light burst effect appears to shift slightly between panels.

Description

  • Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical arranged in a

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

  • red background white light burst
  • I LUV CARLY text
  • pixelated text
  • light burst shift animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Light burst effect shifts position across four panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated text

Visible Text

  • I LUV
  • CARLY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white light burst
  • black text
  • I LUV
  • CARLY
  • pixelated text
  • light burst shift

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812221600091989037019
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/8480f585453c9da28449013cce1dd386c1915d4d021889e0485ad9302df4742d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
8480f585453c9da2
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088368

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Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical arranged in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,645 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 661

Review tags

  • light burst shift (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • light burst effect shifts position (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • light burst shift

Animation

  • light burst effect shifts position

Animation Summary

  • Light burst effect shifts position across four

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text centered
  • light burst centered

Dense Caption

Red background with white light burst effect. Black text "I LUV" on top line, "CARLY" on bottom line. Four identical panels arranged in 2x2 grid. Each panel shows the same text and background. Light burst effect has a bright center with radial gradient. Text is pixelated. The light burst effect appears to shift slightly between panels.

Description

  • Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical arranged in a

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

  • red background white light burst
  • I LUV CARLY text
  • pixelated text
  • light burst shift animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with white light burst effect, black text "I LUV CARLY" in two lines, four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid.
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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I LUV
  • CARLY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white light burst
  • black text
  • I LUV
  • CARLY
  • pixelated text
  • light burst shift
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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
200812221600091989037019
Archive entry
200812221600091989037019.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812221600091989037019.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812221600091989037019.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016