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<3Kyle<3 repeated three times horizontally across black background with yellow and brown stars scattered throughout.

<3Kyle<3 repeated three times horizontally across black background with yellow and brown stars scattered throughout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • star scatter
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeating cyan text '<3Kyle<3' in horizontal rows; visible rows show 4, 4, and 2 full repetitions of the phrase. Yellow and brown star icons are scattered across the image: some yellow stars have a small black dot at their center, others do not. Stars appear to be static with no discernible animation changes between observations. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • <3Kyle<3 repeated three times horizontally across black background with yellow and brown stars scattered throughout.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3Kyle<3 cyan stars black background
  • <3Kyle<3 yellow brown stars gray rectangle
  • cyan text repeated stars scattered

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in observations
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Visible Text

  • <3Kyle<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3Kyle<3

Wordwall

  • <3Kyle<3
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • star dots
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080808145732969887022
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9ac87709307e006e82c8ba9558d569fa2a6dafe4c98fdf258b7cbb6c97d51eaa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
9ac87709307e006e
SHA-256
9ac87709307e006e82c8ba9558d569fa2a6dafe4c98fdf258b7cbb6c97d51eaa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102484

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926096onnx/unsafe0.102484onnx/nsfl0.052962onnx/nsfw0.049522
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<3Kyle<3 repeated three times horizontally across black background with yellow and brown stars scattered throughout.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,507 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 587

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating text (style, 0.80)
  • scattered elements (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • yellow
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • star scatter
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeating cyan text '<3Kyle<3' in horizontal rows; visible rows show 4, 4, and 2 full repetitions of the phrase. Yellow and brown star icons are scattered across the image: some yellow stars have a small black dot at their center, others do not. Stars appear to be static with no discernible animation changes between observations. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • <3Kyle<3 repeated three times horizontally across black background with yellow and brown stars scattered throughout.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3Kyle<3 cyan stars black background
  • <3Kyle<3 yellow brown stars gray rectangle
  • cyan text repeated stars scattered

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in observations
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating text
  • scattered elements

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • <3Kyle<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3Kyle<3

Wordwall

  • <3Kyle<3
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • yellow stars
  • brown stars
  • star dots
  • gray rectangle
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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
20080808145732969887022
Archive entry
20080808145732969887022.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080808145732969887022.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080808145732969887022.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016