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Blue background with red text 'i luv joke' and green pixelated symbols changing across frames.

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Blue background with red text 'i luv joke' and green pixelated symbols changing across frames.

Blue background with red text 'i luv joke' and green pixelated symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change across frames: heart → starburst dots → scattered dots

Animation Summary

  • The green symbol changes across frames: heart in top-left, starburst dots in top-right, scattered dots in bottom-left.

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • static text
  • dynamic symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with the red text "i" above "luv" above "joke" in four quadrants. In the top-left quadrant, a solid green heart symbol appears; in the top-right, a green starburst of dots; and in the bottom-left, a scattered green dot pattern. The bottom-right quadrant has no symbols. All text remains static while the symbols change across frames.

Description

  • Blue background with red text 'i luv joke' and green pixelated symbols changing across frames.

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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802061434221082831716
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background red text i luv joke
  • green heart starburst scattered dots

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • joke

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'i luv joke'

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red text 'i luv joke'
  • green heart symbol
  • green starburst dots
  • green scattered dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802061434221082831716
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
295 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3308e1f9d423302ce26ac97905cdafc6c77e37cfed50e9cd9938dc6e3b4d326.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
b3308e1f9d423302
SHA-256
b3308e1f9d423302ce26ac97905cdafc6c77e37cfed50e9cd9938dc6e3b4d326
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096255

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with red text 'i luv joke' and green pixelated symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,419 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 692

Review tags

  • symbols change across frames (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • scattered dots (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst dots (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change across frames

Animation

  • symbols change across frames: heart → starburst dots → scattered dots

Animation Summary

  • The green symbol changes across frames: heart in top-left, starburst dots in top-right, scattered dots in bottom-left.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • static text
  • dynamic symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with the red text "i" above "luv" above "joke" in four quadrants. In the top-left quadrant, a solid green heart symbol appears; in the top-right, a green starburst of dots; and in the bottom-left, a scattered green dot pattern. The bottom-right quadrant has no symbols. All text remains static while the symbols change across frames.

Description

  • Blue background with red text 'i luv joke' and green pixelated symbols changing across frames.

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 Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802061434221082831716
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background red text i luv joke
  • green heart starburst scattered dots

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • starburst dots
  • scattered dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • starburst dots
  • scattered dots

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • joke

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'i luv joke'

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red text 'i luv joke'
  • green heart symbol
  • green starburst dots
  • green scattered dots
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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
200802061434221082831716
Archive entry
200802061434221082831716.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802061434221082831716.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802061434221082831716.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016