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Pixelated text on cyan background: 'i love<3 bubbles - Christine' with five asterisks below, two white and three light blue.

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Pixelated text on cyan background: 'i love<3 bubbles - Christine' with five asterisks below, two white and three light blue.

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible changes between frames

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal asterisk below name

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated white text reading 'i', then 'love<3', then 'bubbles', then '- Christine'. Below the name are five asterisks arranged horizontally; from left to right: first is white, second is white, third is light blue, fourth is white, fifth is white. The image shows two identical frames side-by-side with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background: 'i love<3 bubbles - Christine' with five asterisks below, two white and three light blue.

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

Named Entities

  • Christine

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love bubbles Christine
  • cyan background asterisks
  • love<3 bubbles Christine
  • white light blue asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal asterisk row below name

Visible Text

  • i
  • love<3
  • bubbles
  • - Christine

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christine

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • i love<3 bubbles - Christine
  • five asterisks
  • white and light blue asterisks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711030929341174943546
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
989 bytes
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 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
aca8daba9d71e19e
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
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image
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.087391

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Pixelated text on cyan background: 'i love<3 bubbles - Christine' with five asterisks below, two white and three light blue.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,377 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 584

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible changes between frames

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal asterisk below name

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated white text reading 'i', then 'love<3', then 'bubbles', then '- Christine'. Below the name are five asterisks arranged horizontally; from left to right: first is white, second is white, third is light blue, fourth is white, fifth is white. The image shows two identical frames side-by-side with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background: 'i love<3 bubbles - Christine' with five asterisks below, two white and three light blue.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Christine

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love bubbles Christine
  • cyan background asterisks
  • love<3 bubbles Christine
  • white light blue asterisks

Objects

  • asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal asterisk row below name

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • asterisks

Visible Text

  • i
  • love<3
  • bubbles
  • - Christine

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christine

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • i love<3 bubbles - Christine
  • five asterisks
  • white and light blue asterisks
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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
200711030929341174943546
Archive entry
200711030929341174943546.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711030929341174943546.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711030929341174943546.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016