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Green background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love David 2.23.08' and varying pixelated symbols above the first line.

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Green background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love David 2.23.08' and varying pixelated symbols above the first line.

Green background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love David 2.23.08' and varying pixelated symbols above the first line. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-left: solid heart; top-right: starburst dots; bottom-left: dotted arc starburst; bottom-right: no symbol

Animation Summary

  • The symbol above 'i' changes across four states: solid heart, starburst dots, dotted arc starburst, and no symbol.

Composition

  • four identical vertical arrangements
  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright green background contains four identical vertical arrangements of black pixelated text: 'i', a symbol, 'love', 'David', '2.23.08'. Top-left arrangement has a solid dark heart symbol; top-right has a starburst with dots; bottom-left shows the same starburst as dotted lines forming an arc; bottom-right lacks any symbol above 'i'. All text uses blocky pixel font, each character is 5x7 pixels.

Description

  • Green background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love David 2.23.08' and varying pixelated symbols above the first line.

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

  • David

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background i love David 2.23.08
  • heart starburst dotted arc text
  • pixelated symbols i love David

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • text block
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • David
  • 2.23.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • David

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black pixelated text
  • i love David 2.23.08
  • solid dark heart
  • starburst with dots
  • dotted arc starburst
  • no symbol above i

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811161559051675619458
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
322 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93709c52f6bbe17e907cba2962e193fc2b8d420d577ce74ac28f8054fce9f3eb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
93709c52f6bbe17e
SHA-256
93709c52f6bbe17e907cba2962e193fc2b8d420d577ce74ac28f8054fce9f3eb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.112232

OpenAI category scores

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Green background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love David 2.23.08' and varying pixelated symbols above the first line.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,318 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 678

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • personalized (mood, 0.80)
  • arc of dots (object, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-left: solid heart; top-right: starburst dots; bottom-left: dotted arc starburst; bottom-right: no symbol

Animation Summary

  • The symbol above 'i' changes across four states: solid heart, starburst dots, dotted arc starburst, and no symbol.

Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • four identical vertical arrangements
  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright green background contains four identical vertical arrangements of black pixelated text: 'i', a symbol, 'love', 'David', '2.23.08'. Top-left arrangement has a solid dark heart symbol; top-right has a starburst with dots; bottom-left shows the same starburst as dotted lines forming an arc; bottom-right lacks any symbol above 'i'. All text uses blocky pixel font, each character is 5x7 pixels.

Description

  • Green background displays four identical text blocks with 'i love David 2.23.08' and varying pixelated symbols above the first line.

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

  • nostalgic
  • personalized

Named Entities

  • David

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background i love David 2.23.08
  • heart starburst dotted arc text
  • pixelated symbols i love David

Objects

  • heart
  • dots
  • arc of dots

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text block
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbols

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • David
  • 2.23.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • David

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black pixelated text
  • i love David 2.23.08
  • solid dark heart
  • starburst with dots
  • dotted arc starburst
  • no symbol above i
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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
200811161559051675619458
Archive entry
200811161559051675619458.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811161559051675619458.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811161559051675619458.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016