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Pixelated icon with purple background showing 'I luv snowmen' text and a snowman face with a heart, alternating between heart present and heart absent states.

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Pixelated icon with purple background showing 'I luv snowmen' text and a snowman face with a heart, alternating between heart present and heart absent states.

Pixelated icon with purple background showing 'I luv snowmen' text and a snowman face with a heart, alternating between heart present and heart absent states. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart icon alternates visibility

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon alternates visibility between frames while all other elements remain static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • centered snowman
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Purple background with light blue text reading 'I luv snowmen' at top and bottom. Centered snowman face with 'o>o' eyes, colon mouth, and curly braces. Left side shows heart icon; right side shows heart icon in first frame, heart absent in second frame. Text and snowman remain static except for heart visibility change. All elements are pixelated with low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixelated icon with purple background showing 'I luv snowmen' text and a snowman face with a heart, alternating between heart present and heart absent states.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081127164109603354609

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman heart animation
  • I luv snowmen pixel art
  • heart present absent animation
  • purple background snowman
  • low-resolution text animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

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 luv snowmen

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue text
  • I luv snowmen
  • snowman face
  • o>o eyes
  • colon mouth
  • curly braces
  • heart icon
  • heart present
  • heart absent
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text static
  • heart animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081127164109603354609
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b51e740892ec59d173f3cf1a861694fad74a6b27d969e44519359273d38fb8fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
b51e740892ec59d1
SHA-256
b51e740892ec59d173f3cf1a861694fad74a6b27d969e44519359273d38fb8fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074674

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with purple background showing 'I luv snowmen' text and a snowman face with a heart, alternating between heart present and heart absent states.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,685 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 875

Review tags

  • heart appears (action, 0.80)
  • heart disappears (action, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • curly braces (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • snowman (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears
  • heart disappears

Animation

  • heart icon alternates visibility

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon alternates visibility between frames while all other elements remain static.

Colors

  • purple
  • light blue
  • magenta

Composition

  • centered text
  • centered snowman
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Purple background with light blue text reading 'I luv snowmen' at top and bottom. Centered snowman face with 'o>o' eyes, colon mouth, and curly braces. Left side shows heart icon; right side shows heart icon in first frame, heart absent in second frame. Text and snowman remain static except for heart visibility change. All elements are pixelated with low-resolution rendering.

Description

Pixelated icon with purple background showing 'I luv snowmen' text and a snowman face with a heart, alternating between heart present and heart absent states.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081127164109603354609

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowman heart animation
  • I luv snowmen pixel art
  • heart present absent animation
  • purple background snowman
  • low-resolution text animation

Objects

  • curly braces

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • snowman
  • heart

Visible Text

  • I luv snowmen

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue text
  • I luv snowmen
  • snowman face
  • o>o eyes
  • colon mouth
  • curly braces
  • heart icon
  • heart present
  • heart absent
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text static
  • heart animation
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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
20081127164109603354609
Archive entry
20081127164109603354609.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081127164109603354609.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081127164109603354609.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016