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Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three of three icons each

Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three of three icons each. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Animation

  • symbol changes

Animation Summary

Symbol changes : first symbols are plus sign, star, X; second symbols are plus sign, dot, colon; third symbols are plus sign, dots, dots. No visible motion or animation frames beyond symbol changes. No additional subjects or objects present. No visible clothing, props, or 1.0

Dense Caption

Blue background with three rows of three identical 'ily <3' text elements per row. First row symbols: plus sign, star, X. Second row symbols: plus sign, dot, colon. Third row symbols: plus sign, dots, dots. All text and symbols are dark blue on blue background. Symbols change sequentially across rows. Text 'ily <3' appears in pixelated font. No visible motion or animation frames beyond symbol changes. No additional subjects or objects present. No visible clothing, props, or expressions. No visible identity clues. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible style or rendering technique beyond pixelated text and symbols. No visible composition beyond grid layout. No visible mood or animation. No visible objects or actions. No visible text beyond 'ily <3'. No visible uncertain text. No visible subjects. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible background beyond blue. No visible style beyond pixelated. No visible rendering technique beyond pixelated. No visible composition beyond grid. No visible mood. No visible animation. No visible objects. No visible actions. No visible text beyond 'ily <3'. No visible uncertain text. No visible subjects. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible background beyond blue. No visible style beyond pixelated. No visible rendering technique beyond pixelated. No visible composition beyond grid. No visible mood. No visible animation. No visible objects. No visible actions. No visible text beyond 'ily <3'. No visible uncertain text. No visible subjects. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible background beyond blue. No visible style beyond pixelated. No visible rendering technique beyond pixelated. No visible composition beyond grid. No visible mood. No visible animation. No visible object

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three of three icons each

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background ily <3
  • ily <3 plus sign star X
  • ily <3 plus sign dot colon
  • ily <3 plus sign dots dots
  • blue ily <3
  • pixelated ily <3 symbols
  • blue background ily <3 text
  • ily <3 symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • quarantined description: Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three rows of three icons each.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Symbol changes across rows: first row symbols are plus sign, star, X; second row symbols are plus sign, dot, colon; third row symbols are plus sign, dots, dots. No visible motion or animation frames beyond symbol changes. No additional subjects or objects present. No visible clothing, props, or 1.0
  • quarantined wordwall: no visible composition beyond grid
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined animation: symbol changes across rows
  • quarantined retrieval: ily <3 grid layout symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid layout ily <3

Visible Text

  • ily <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • ily <3 text
  • three
  • plus sign
  • star
  • X symbol
  • dot symbol
  • colon symbol
  • pixelated font
  • dark blue symbols
  • no motion
  • no additional subjects
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  • no props
  • no expressions
  • no identity clues
  • no visible colors beyond blue and dark blue
  • no visible style beyond pixelated
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  • no visible composition beyond
  • no visible mood
  • no visible animation
  • no visible objects
  • no visible actions
  • no visible text beyond 'ily <3'
  • no visible uncertain text
  • no visible subjects
  • no visible background beyond blue

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811271805051925659326
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
427 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8ac3a3b033483e79af25eb66c622447d14fdef62afa1d0d2842d77e1d3f837fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
8ac3a3b033483e79
SHA-256
8ac3a3b033483e79af25eb66c622447d14fdef62afa1d0d2842d77e1d3f837fe
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 04:53 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000716

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075429

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three of three icons each

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,989 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 1,057

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • symbol changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • symbol changes

Animation Summary

Symbol changes : first symbols are plus sign, star, X; second symbols are plus sign, dot, colon; third symbols are plus sign, dots, dots. No visible motion or animation frames beyond symbol changes. No additional subjects or objects present. No visible clothing, props, or 1.0

Colors

  • blue
  • dark blue

Dense Caption

Blue background with three rows of three identical 'ily <3' text elements per row. First row symbols: plus sign, star, X. Second row symbols: plus sign, dot, colon. Third row symbols: plus sign, dots, dots. All text and symbols are dark blue on blue background. Symbols change sequentially across rows. Text 'ily <3' appears in pixelated font. No visible motion or animation frames beyond symbol changes. No additional subjects or objects present. No visible clothing, props, or expressions. No visible identity clues. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible style or rendering technique beyond pixelated text and symbols. No visible composition beyond grid layout. No visible mood or animation. No visible objects or actions. No visible text beyond 'ily <3'. No visible uncertain text. No visible subjects. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible background beyond blue. No visible style beyond pixelated. No visible rendering technique beyond pixelated. No visible composition beyond grid. No visible mood. No visible animation. No visible objects. No visible actions. No visible text beyond 'ily <3'. No visible uncertain text. No visible subjects. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible background beyond blue. No visible style beyond pixelated. No visible rendering technique beyond pixelated. No visible composition beyond grid. No visible mood. No visible animation. No visible objects. No visible actions. No visible text beyond 'ily <3'. No visible uncertain text. No visible subjects. No visible colors beyond blue and dark blue. No visible background beyond blue. No visible style beyond pixelated. No visible rendering technique beyond pixelated. No visible composition beyond grid. No visible mood. No visible animation. No visible object

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three of three icons each

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • blue background ily <3
  • ily <3 plus sign star X
  • ily <3 plus sign dot colon
  • ily <3 plus sign dots dots
  • blue ily <3
  • pixelated ily <3 symbols
  • blue background ily <3 text
  • ily <3 symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • quarantined description: Blue background with repeated 'ily <3' text and changing symbols across three rows of three icons each.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Symbol changes across rows: first row symbols are plus sign, star, X; second row symbols are plus sign, dot, colon; third row symbols are plus sign, dots, dots. No visible motion or animation frames beyond symbol changes. No additional subjects or objects present. No visible clothing, props, or 1.0
  • quarantined wordwall: no visible composition beyond grid
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined animation: symbol changes across rows
  • quarantined retrieval: ily <3 grid layout symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid layout ily <3

Style

  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • ily <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
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  • no expressions
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  • no visible style beyond pixelated
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  • no visible composition beyond
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  • no visible animation
  • no visible objects
  • no visible actions
  • no visible text beyond 'ily <3'
  • no visible uncertain text
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  • no visible background beyond blue
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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
200811271805051925659326
Archive entry
200811271805051925659326.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811271805051925659326.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811271805051925659326.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016