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Pixelated icon with layered green and yellow squares, blue text 'ily', 'jacob', '.m.', '?', '<3' on a bright green background.

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Pixelated icon with layered green and yellow squares, blue text 'ily', 'jacob', '.m.', '?', '<3' on a bright green background.

Pixelated icon with layered green and yellow squares, blue text 'ily', 'jacob', '.m.', '?', '<3' on a bright green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • central square size changes between two states: small (only '.m.') and large (includes '?')

Animation Summary

The central green square containing '.m.' and '?' alternates between two states: small (covering only '.m.') in , large (including '?') in the other two

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • four identical frames

Dense Caption

Four identical pixel art frames show layered square borders: outermost bright green, middle light yellow, inner green. Centered blue text reads 'ily' top, 'jacob' below it, '.m.' in the center, '?' to its right, '<3' bottom. The central green square containing '.m.' and '?' changes size across frames; in two frames it is smaller (covering only '.m.') while in the other two it expands to include '?'. All text uses a blocky pixel font with blue characters on light yellow background.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with layered green and yellow squares, blue text 'ily', 'jacob', '.m.', '?', '<3' on a bright green background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • jacob

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

Named Entities

  • jacob

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • jacob m. heart
  • ily jacob <3
  • pixel art text icon
  • green yellow blue layered squares

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined animationSummary: The central green square containing '.m.' and '?' alternates between two states: small (covering only '.m.') in two frames, large (including '?') in the other two.

Visible Text

  • ily
  • jacob
  • .m.
  • ?
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • jacob

Wordwall

  • layered squares
  • green borders
  • yellow center
  • blue text
  • .m. symbol
  • <3 heart
  • pixelated style
  • text 'ily'
  • text 'jacob'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090330182853641743913
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
824 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/930ec19f609314f24e55e40161c650e2f88dfcc69508b09ddf39c33a9ac51228.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
930ec19f609314f2
SHA-256
930ec19f609314f24e55e40161c650e2f88dfcc69508b09ddf39c33a9ac51228
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102191

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916993onnx/unsafe0.102191onnx/nsfw0.071424onnx/nsfl0.030768
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Pixelated icon with layered green and yellow squares, blue text 'ily', 'jacob', '.m.', '?', '<3' on a bright green background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,891 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 708

Review tags

  • central square contracts to exclude (action, 0.80)
  • central square expands to include (action, 0.80)
  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue text characters (object, 0.80)
  • green squares (object, 0.80)
  • yellow squares (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • layered borders (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • central square expands to include '?'
  • central square contracts to exclude '?'

Animation

  • central square size changes between two states: small (only '.m.') and large (includes '?')

Animation Summary

The central green square containing '.m.' and '?' alternates between two states: small (covering only '.m.') in , large (including '?') in the other two

Colors

  • bright green
  • light yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • four identical frames

Dense Caption

Four identical pixel art frames show layered square borders: outermost bright green, middle light yellow, inner green. Centered blue text reads 'ily' top, 'jacob' below it, '.m.' in the center, '?' to its right, '<3' bottom. The central green square containing '.m.' and '?' changes size across frames; in two frames it is smaller (covering only '.m.') while in the other two it expands to include '?'. All text uses a blocky pixel font with blue characters on light yellow background.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with layered green and yellow squares, blue text 'ily', 'jacob', '.m.', '?', '<3' on a bright green background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • jacob

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • jacob

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • jacob m. heart
  • ily jacob <3
  • pixel art text icon
  • green yellow blue layered squares

Objects

  • green squares
  • yellow squares
  • blue text characters

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined animationSummary: The central green square containing '.m.' and '?' alternates between two states: small (covering only '.m.') in two frames, large (including '?') in the other two.

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • layered borders

Subjects

  • text elements

Visible Text

  • ily
  • jacob
  • .m.
  • ?
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • jacob

Wordwall

  • layered squares
  • green borders
  • yellow center
  • blue text
  • .m. symbol
  • <3 heart
  • pixelated style
  • text 'ily'
  • text 'jacob'
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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
20090330182853641743913
Archive entry
20090330182853641743913.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090330182853641743913.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090330182853641743913.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016