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Pixelated icon with four distinct sections: top-left text stack, top-right green design, bottom-left cursive phrase, and bottom-right abstract shapes.

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Pixelated icon with four distinct sections: top-left text stack, top-right green design, bottom-left cursive phrase, and bottom-right abstract shapes.

Pixelated icon with four distinct sections: top-left text stack, top-right green design, bottom-left cursive phrase, and bottom-right abstract shapes. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text-heavy top-left
  • graphic-top-right
  • text-bottom-left
  • abstract-bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left section shows stacked words 'hug' (blue), 'laugh' (orange), 'smile' (green), 'love' (pink) with smaller grayed-out repetitions below each. Top-right features large green text 'laugh', a four-leaf clover, and abstract green shapes on white background. Bottom-left displays cursive words 'live' (cyan), 'laugh' (lime), 'love' (magenta) with two black heart outlines beneath. Bottom-right contains black abstract figures: one with raised arm over pink square, another with circular head over orange rectangle, a white '<3' symbol on black shape, and green radiating lines on light blue background.

Description

Pixelated icon with four distinct sections: top-left text stack, top-right green design, bottom-left cursive phrase, and bottom-right abstract shapes.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hug laugh smile love icon
  • live laugh love cursive
  • green four leaf clover icon
  • <3 symbol pixel art

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • hug
  • laugh
  • smile
  • love
  • live
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol
  • four-leaf clover

Wordwall

  • stacked text 'hug laugh smile love'
  • green four-leaf clover
  • cursive 'live laugh love'
  • <3 symbol
  • black heart outlines
  • cyan/magenta/lime color scheme

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901181723121647315974
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/aec6c17daeff32f42ab38573c716faf3725cf7bac18d4d4aadb543cacf662880.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
aec6c17daeff32f4
SHA-256
aec6c17daeff32f42ab38573c716faf3725cf7bac18d4d4aadb543cacf662880
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000819

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with four distinct sections: top-left text stack, top-right green design, bottom-left cursive phrase, and bottom-right abstract shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,217 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 730

Review tags

  • radiating lines (action, 0.80)
  • raised arm (action, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • four leaf clover (object, 0.80)
  • heart outlines (object, 0.80)
  • blocky shapes (style, 0.80)
  • cursive text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract figures (subject, 0.80)
  • clover (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised arm
  • radiating lines

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • lime
  • blue
  • orange
  • green
  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text-heavy top-left
  • graphic-top-right
  • text-bottom-left
  • abstract-bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left section shows stacked words 'hug' (blue), 'laugh' (orange), 'smile' (green), 'love' (pink) with smaller grayed-out repetitions below each. Top-right features large green text 'laugh', a four-leaf clover, and abstract green shapes on white background. Bottom-left displays cursive words 'live' (cyan), 'laugh' (lime), 'love' (magenta) with two black heart outlines beneath. Bottom-right contains black abstract figures: one with raised arm over pink square, another with circular head over orange rectangle, a white '<3' symbol on black shape, and green radiating lines on light blue background.

Description

Pixelated icon with four distinct sections: top-left text stack, top-right green design, bottom-left cursive phrase, and bottom-right abstract shapes.

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

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful
  • positive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hug laugh smile love icon
  • live laugh love cursive
  • green four leaf clover icon
  • <3 symbol pixel art

Objects

  • four-leaf clover
  • heart outlines
  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • cursive text
  • blocky shapes

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts
  • clover
  • abstract figures

Visible Text

  • hug
  • laugh
  • smile
  • love
  • live
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol
  • four-leaf clover

Wordwall

  • stacked text 'hug laugh smile love'
  • green four-leaf clover
  • cursive 'live laugh love'
  • <3 symbol
  • black heart outlines
  • cyan/magenta/lime color scheme
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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
200901181723121647315974
Archive entry
200901181723121647315974.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901181723121647315974.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901181723121647315974.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016