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Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' and alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines.

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Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' and alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines.

Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' and alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • alternating stars
  • dotted line connections

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' in pixelated font. Alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines appear in corners. Stars alternate between black and blue. Dotted lines connect stars to text. Text is repeated in a grid pattern. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' and alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text RFC LOVE 3 #4
  • repeated text pattern
  • alternating black blue stars
  • dotted line connections

Objects

  • star icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid pattern

Visible Text

  • RFC= LOVE<3 #4

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • RFC= LOVE<3 #4
  • pixelated font
  • black star
  • blue star
  • dotted lines
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070813130755792646671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9bbc4408c5c25b2730e37575fb9527deb41eac9b5e650123d74ae23c0bb5c407.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
9bbc4408c5c25b27
SHA-256
9bbc4408c5c25b2730e37575fb9527deb41eac9b5e650123d74ae23c0bb5c407
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
0.095371

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' and alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,659 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 595

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dotted lines (object, 0.80)
  • star icons (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • repeated text
  • alternating stars
  • dotted line connections

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' in pixelated font. Alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines appear in corners. Stars alternate between black and blue. Dotted lines connect stars to text. Text is repeated in a grid pattern. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'RFC= LOVE<3 #4' and alternating black and blue star icons with dotted lines.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text RFC LOVE 3 #4
  • repeated text pattern
  • alternating black blue stars
  • dotted line connections

Objects

  • star icons
  • dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • RFC= LOVE<3 #4

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • RFC= LOVE<3 #4
  • pixelated font
  • black star
  • blue star
  • dotted lines
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:29 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070813130755792646671
Archive entry
20070813130755792646671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070813130755792646671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070813130755792646671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016