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Pixelated text on cyan background with pink and purple symbols below, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

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Pixelated text on cyan background with pink and purple symbols below, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

Pixelated text on cyan background with pink and purple symbols below, showing animation changes in symbol positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbol positions change

Animation Summary

  • The purple symbol moves one position right and the rightmost pink symbol moves one position right between frames.

Composition

  • two vertical text
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Cyan background with pink pixelated text reading "I love Mitchel" in two vertical columns. Below the text, five symbols: four pink plus signs and one purple plus sign. In the second frame, the purple symbol shifts from third to fourth position from the left, and the rightmost pink symbol shifts from fourth to fifth position. Symbols remain static in other positions. Text and background do not change.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background with pink and purple symbols below, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text Mitchel
  • pixelated I love Mitchel
  • plus signs animation
  • purple symbol shift

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Mitchel

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • I love Mitchel
  • five symbols
  • four pink plus signs
  • one purple plus sign
  • purple symbol shifts right
  • rightmost symbol shifts right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730161717338927587
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
280 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a1f9623e0c9b01c722ad07a9abb1a7e9fffc5169d7a3d4fb113c542fae89d1ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
a1f9623e0c9b01c7
SHA-256
a1f9623e0c9b01c722ad07a9abb1a7e9fffc5169d7a3d4fb113c542fae89d1ab
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107682

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.893920onnx/unsafe0.107682onnx/nsfw0.074192onnx/nsfl0.033490
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on cyan background with pink and purple symbols below, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,117 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 657

Review tags

  • symbol shifts (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • symbol positions change (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol shifts

Animation

  • symbol positions change

Animation Summary

  • The purple symbol moves one position right and the rightmost pink symbol moves one position right between frames.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • two vertical text
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Cyan background with pink pixelated text reading "I love Mitchel" in two vertical columns. Below the text, five symbols: four pink plus signs and one purple plus sign. In the second frame, the purple symbol shifts from third to fourth position from the left, and the rightmost pink symbol shifts from fourth to fifth position. Symbols remain static in other positions. Text and background do not change.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background with pink and purple symbols below, showing animation changes in symbol positions.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink text Mitchel
  • pixelated I love Mitchel
  • plus signs animation
  • purple symbol shift

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Mitchel

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • I love Mitchel
  • five symbols
  • four pink plus signs
  • one purple plus sign
  • purple symbol shifts right
  • rightmost symbol shifts right
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:50 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)
Raw JSON
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
20070730161717338927587
Archive entry
20070730161717338927587.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730161717338927587.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730161717338927587.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016