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Pixelated text reads 'these are my fans <3' on a bright cyan background with purple and blue pixelated shapes below.

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Pixelated text reads 'these are my fans <3' on a bright cyan background with purple and blue pixelated shapes below.

Pixelated text reads 'these are my fans <3' on a bright cyan background with purple and blue pixelated shapes below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text in two horizontal sections
  • decorative border below text

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background with dark brown pixelated text reading 'these are my fans <3' in two identical horizontal sections. Below the text, a row of pixelated shapes in purple and blue forms a decorative border. The shapes are irregular, with some resembling simplified hands or abstract forms. The text and shapes are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'these are my fans <3' on a bright cyan background with purple and blue pixelated shapes below.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803041442241420407140

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixelated text
  • my fans <3
  • purple blue shapes
  • low-resolution retro digital
  • text repetition
  • decorative border
  • affectionate playful mood
  • pixelated shapes

Visible Text

  • these are my fans <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • my fans
  • <3
  • purple shapes
  • blue shapes
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • text repetition
  • decorative border

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803041442241420407140
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
a7fbae645f7bfa37
SHA-256
a7fbae645f7bfa378b56f34445bdd7dccb8c5b7849dea841486183692cb99983
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text reads 'these are my fans <3' on a bright cyan background with purple and blue pixelated shapes below.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,421 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 681

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Colors

  • cyan
  • brown
  • purple
  • blue

Composition

  • text in two horizontal sections
  • decorative border below text

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background with dark brown pixelated text reading 'these are my fans <3' in two identical horizontal sections. Below the text, a row of pixelated shapes in purple and blue forms a decorative border. The shapes are irregular, with some resembling simplified hands or abstract forms. The text and shapes are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'these are my fans <3' on a bright cyan background with purple and blue pixelated shapes below.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803041442241420407140

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  • affectionate
  • playful

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  • my fans <3
  • purple blue shapes
  • low-resolution retro digital
  • text repetition
  • decorative border
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  • pixelated shapes

Visible Text

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Wordwall

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  • pixelated text
  • my fans
  • <3
  • purple shapes
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  • text repetition
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Run
56
Version
v5
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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
200803041442241420407140
Archive entry
200803041442241420407140.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803041442241420407140.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803041442241420407140.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016