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Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, showing star animation

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, showing star animation

Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, showing star animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change between frames

Animation Summary

Star positions change between frames: first frame has two red stars, one purple star, two red stars; second frame has one red star, two red stars, one purple star, one red star.

Composition

  • text centered top
  • stars centered bottom

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'I' at top center, 'LUV' below it, 'GABE' below 'LUV'. Five pixelated stars below text: first two red, third purple, fourth red, fifth red in first frame; first star red, second red, third purple, fourth red, fifth red in second frame. Stars change position between frames. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated with blocky, low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, showing star animation

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LUV GABE
  • blue background pixelated text
  • red purple stars animation
  • pixelated star animation

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, two frames showing star animation.

Visible Text

  • I
  • LUV
  • GABE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • I LUV GABE
  • five pixelated stars
  • red stars
  • purple star
  • star animation
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708261310001438158352
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
268 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a991181c03ef6b20706d6f1f3d058a897a0ac412b775c2a5e0f11ba11cabac43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
a991181c03ef6b20
SHA-256
a991181c03ef6b20706d6f1f3d058a897a0ac412b775c2a5e0f11ba11cabac43
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.062851

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, showing star animation

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,067 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 721

Review tags

  • star animation (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star animation

Animation

  • star positions change between frames

Animation Summary

Star positions change between frames: first frame has two red stars, one purple star, two red stars; second frame has one red star, two red stars, one purple star, one red star.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • purple

Composition

  • text centered top
  • stars centered bottom

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'I' at top center, 'LUV' below it, 'GABE' below 'LUV'. Five pixelated stars below text: first two red, third purple, fourth red, fifth red in first frame; first star red, second red, third purple, fourth red, fifth red in second frame. Stars change position between frames. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated with blocky, low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, showing star animation

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LUV GABE
  • blue background pixelated text
  • red purple stars animation
  • pixelated star animation

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text 'I LUV GABE' and five red/purple pixelated stars below, two frames showing star animation.

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • I
  • LUV
  • GABE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • I LUV GABE
  • five pixelated stars
  • red stars
  • purple star
  • star animation
  • pixelated rendering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:11 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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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
200708261310001438158352
Archive entry
200708261310001438158352.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708261310001438158352.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708261310001438158352.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016