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Green pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with animated heart and starburst elements.

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Green pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with animated heart and starburst elements.

Green pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with animated heart and starburst elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; static pixel art with identical elements across observations.

Composition

  • top-left heart
  • top-right starburst
  • centered dot-starburst
  • two of text halves

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays green pixelated text "Hug Me. <3" repeated twice horizontally in two rows, each row containing identical left and right halves. Top-left corner shows a solid green heart symbol; top-right corner contains a small green starburst of dots. Centered below the upper text is a larger green dot-based starburst pattern. All elements maintain consistent pixelation style with no visible motion or color changes between observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with animated heart and starburst elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080217124109364341853

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background green text hug me
  • heart symbol starburst dots hugging
  • pixelated hug me <3 cyan green
  • two of "Hug Me. <3"

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of identical text halves
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text halves
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows of "Hug Me. <3"

Visible Text

  • Hug Me. <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green pixelated text
  • "Hug Me. <3" repeated twice horizontally
  • heart symbol top-left
  • starburst dots top-right
  • centered dot-starburst
  • two of identical text halves

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080217124109364341853
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
290 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a1fbe4ba221b90473f62adeda74dc2de1334d412147f4df22d2ccefbd0493f54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
a1fbe4ba221b9047
SHA-256
a1fbe4ba221b90473f62adeda74dc2de1334d412147f4df22d2ccefbd0493f54
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085985

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921217onnx/unsafe0.085985onnx/nsfw0.050183onnx/nsfl0.035802
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Green pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with animated heart and starburst elements.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 23:20 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,186 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 599

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • starburst dots (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; static pixel art with identical elements across observations.

Colors

  • cyan
  • green

Composition

  • top-left heart
  • top-right starburst
  • centered dot-starburst
  • two of text halves

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays green pixelated text "Hug Me. <3" repeated twice horizontally in two rows, each row containing identical left and right halves. Top-left corner shows a solid green heart symbol; top-right corner contains a small green starburst of dots. Centered below the upper text is a larger green dot-based starburst pattern. All elements maintain consistent pixelation style with no visible motion or color changes between observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and symbols on cyan background with animated heart and starburst elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080217124109364341853

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background green text hug me
  • heart symbol starburst dots hugging
  • pixelated hug me <3 cyan green
  • two of "Hug Me. <3"

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • starburst dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of identical text halves
  • quarantined composition: two rows of text halves
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows of "Hug Me. <3"

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Hug Me. <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green pixelated text
  • "Hug Me. <3" repeated twice horizontally
  • heart symbol top-left
  • starburst dots top-right
  • centered dot-starburst
  • two of identical text halves
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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
20080217124109364341853
Archive entry
20080217124109364341853.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080217124109364341853.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080217124109364341853.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016