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A colorful animated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes, white swirls, and a heart shape, displaying changing text elements.

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A colorful animated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes, white swirls, and a heart shape, displaying changing text elements.

A colorful animated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes, white swirls, and a heart shape, displaying changing text elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

The icon displays changing text elements: 'I' in top-left, 'CUU' in top-right, 'you' in bottom-left, and 'i1y' in the middle sections. The background remains static with diagonal stripes, swirls, and a heart shape.

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • text overlays
  • heart shape
  • swirls

Dense Caption

The icon features diagonal stripes in pink, light blue, and green. White swirls and a white heart shape are visible on the background. The text elements change across frames: the top-left shows a red 'I', the top-right shows red 'CUU', and the bottom-left shows red 'you'. The text 'i1y' appears in white outline with green and blue fill in the middle sections. The right side of the icon is gray in the final frame. The animation changes the text elements while the background remains static.

Description

  • A colorful animated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes, white swirls, and a heart shape, displaying changing text 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue green stripes
  • red I CUU you text
  • white swirls heart
  • i1y text
  • gray right side
  • animated text changes
  • pixelated cartoon style
  • diagonal stripes background

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • The right side of the icon is gray in the final frame.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • I
  • CUU
  • you
  • i1y

Wordwall

  • diagonal stripes
  • pink
  • light blue
  • green
  • white swirls
  • white heart
  • red 'I'
  • red 'CUU'
  • red 'you'
  • white outline 'i1y'
  • green and blue fill
  • gray right side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080229141441474303240
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aa57111a7886d25e72fb5993c45384fb0dc8cedf52137d07b5f9b2a535be0400.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
aa57111a7886d25e
SHA-256
aa57111a7886d25e72fb5993c45384fb0dc8cedf52137d07b5f9b2a535be0400
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.101611

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919730onnx/unsafe0.101611onnx/nsfw0.070958onnx/nsfl0.030654
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A colorful animated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes, white swirls, and a heart shape, displaying changing text elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,107 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 896

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • swirls (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes

Animation Summary

The icon displays changing text elements: 'I' in top-left, 'CUU' in top-right, 'you' in bottom-left, and 'i1y' in the middle sections. The background remains static with diagonal stripes, swirls, and a heart shape.

Colors

  • pink
  • light blue
  • green
  • white
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • text overlays
  • heart shape
  • swirls

Dense Caption

The icon features diagonal stripes in pink, light blue, and green. White swirls and a white heart shape are visible on the background. The text elements change across frames: the top-left shows a red 'I', the top-right shows red 'CUU', and the bottom-left shows red 'you'. The text 'i1y' appears in white outline with green and blue fill in the middle sections. The right side of the icon is gray in the final frame. The animation changes the text elements while the background remains static.

Description

  • A colorful animated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes, white swirls, and a heart shape, displaying changing text 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue green stripes
  • red I CUU you text
  • white swirls heart
  • i1y text
  • gray right side
  • animated text changes
  • pixelated cartoon style
  • diagonal stripes background

Objects

  • heart
  • swirls

Preprocessing Notes

  • The right side of the icon is gray in the final frame.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • animated

Subjects

  • text
  • heart
  • swirls

Visible Text

  • I
  • CUU
  • you
  • i1y

Wordwall

  • diagonal stripes
  • pink
  • light blue
  • green
  • white swirls
  • white heart
  • red 'I'
  • red 'CUU'
  • red 'you'
  • white outline 'i1y'
  • green and blue fill
  • gray right side
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
56
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
20080229141441474303240
Archive entry
20080229141441474303240.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080229141441474303240.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080229141441474303240.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016