Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four

Permanent icon record

Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four

Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical 2x2 grid panels display the same content: blue gradient background, cyan pixelated text 'live laugh love <8', each panel showing exact same layout. Text is centered vertically and horizontally within each panel's space. The '<8' symbol appears as a left-pointing chevron with an 8 character inside it. Background has subtle radial light effect around the center of each panel.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090501152104105155381

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • live laugh love <8 cyan text
  • blue background pixel art
  • text-based icon
  • <8 symbol cyan blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: no visible motion changes across panels
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based icon 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • live
  • laugh
  • love <8

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan text
  • live laugh love <8
  • pixelated font

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090501152104105155381
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/902f8f1fee1878b19ff78dd1da1ad288b1a13e9d1e81013d84cdfa77564a940f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
902f8f1fee1878b1
SHA-256
902f8f1fee1878b19ff78dd1da1ad288b1a13e9d1e81013d84cdfa77564a940f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:53 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081589

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920878onnx/unsafe0.081589onnx/nsfw0.045233onnx/nsfl0.036356
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,640 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 605

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • affirmative (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical 2x2 grid panels display the same content: blue gradient background, cyan pixelated text 'live laugh love <8', each panel showing exact same layout. Text is centered vertically and horizontally within each panel's space. The '<8' symbol appears as a left-pointing chevron with an 8 character inside it. Background has subtle radial light effect around the center of each panel.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090501152104105155381

Mood

  • positive
  • affirmative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • live laugh love <8 cyan text
  • blue background pixel art
  • text-based icon
  • <8 symbol cyan blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with cyan text reading 'live laugh love <8' in pixelated font across four panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: no visible motion changes across panels
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based icon 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • live
  • laugh
  • love <8

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan text
  • live laugh love <8
  • pixelated font
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "902f8f1fee1878b19ff78dd1da1ad288b1a13e9d1e81013d84cdfa77564a940f",
  "description": "Blue background with cyan text reading \u0027live laugh love \u003C8\u0027 in pixelated font across four",
  "denseCaption": "Four identical 2x2 grid panels display the same content: blue gradient background, cyan pixelated text \u0027live laugh love \u003C8\u0027, each panel showing exact same layout. Text is centered vertically and horizontally within each panel\u0027s space. The \u0027\u003C8\u0027 symbol appears as a left-pointing chevron with an 8 character inside it. Background has subtle radial light effect around the center of each panel.",
  "wordwall": [
    "blue background",
    "cyan text",
    "live laugh love \u003C8",
    "pixelated font"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "live",
    "laugh",
    "love \u003C8"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [],
  "colors": [
    "blue",
    "cyan"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixel art",
    "text-based"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "centered text"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "positive",
    "affirmative"
  ],
  "animation": [
    "static image",
    "no visible motion changes"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "quarantined description: Blue background with cyan text reading \u0027live laugh love \u003C8\u0027 in pixelated font across four panels.",
    "quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid panels",
    "quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout",
    "quarantined animation: no visible motion changes across panels",
    "quarantined retrieval: text-based icon 2x2 grid"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "20090501152104105155381"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "live laugh love \u003C8 cyan text",
    "blue background pixel art",
    "text-based icon",
    "\u003C8 symbol cyan blue"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "pixel art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixel art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text based",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-based"
    },
    {
      "tag": "positive",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: positive"
    },
    {
      "tag": "affirmative",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: affirmative"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "cyan",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cyan"
    },
    {
      "tag": "static image",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: static image"
    },
    {
      "tag": "no visible motion changes",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: no visible motion changes"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "902f8f1fee1878b19ff78dd1da1ad288b1a13e9d1e81013d84cdfa77564a940f",
        "description": "Blue background with cyan text reading \u0027live laugh love \u003C8\u0027 in pixelated font across four panels.",
        "denseCaption": "Four identical 2x2 grid panels display the same content: blue gradient background, cyan pixelated text \u0027live laugh love \u003C8\u0027, each panel showing exact same layout. Text is centered vertically and horizontally within each panel\u0027s space. The \u0027\u003C8\u0027 symbol appears as a left-pointing chevron with an 8 character inside it. Background has subtle radial light effect around the center of each panel.",
        "wordwall": [
          "blue background",
          "cyan text",
          "live laugh love \u003C8",
          "pixelated font",
          "2x2 grid panels"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "live",
          "laugh",
          "love \u003C8"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [],
        "colors": [
          "blue",
          "cyan"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixel art",
          "text-based"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "centered text",
          "2x2 grid layout"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "positive",
          "affirmative"
        ],
        "animation": [
          "static image",
          "no visible motion changes across panels"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "20090501152104105155381"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "live laugh love \u003C8 cyan text",
          "blue background pixel art",
          "text-based icon 2x2 grid",
          "\u003C8 symbol cyan blue"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20090501152104105155381
Archive entry
20090501152104105155381.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090501152104105155381.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090501152104105155381.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016