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Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" repeated in a , red pixel symbols changing across frames

Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" repeated in a , red pixel symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • red symbols change from plus to asterisk to X
  • red pixel dots appear in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change from plus to asterisk to X while red pixel dots appear in the bottom

Composition

  • text
  • central symbols
  • bottom dots

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" in three rows and three columns. Red pixel symbols appear in the middle row: first frame shows a red plus sign, second frame shows a red asterisk, third frame shows a red X. Additional red pixel dots appear in the bottom row across frames. Text remains static while red symbols animate.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" repeated in a , red pixel 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love CHARLIE
  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red pixel dots
  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" repeated in a grid, red pixel symbols changing across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Red symbols change from plus to asterisk to X while red pixel dots appear in the bottom row.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined animation: red pixel dots appear in bottom row

Visible Text

  • I love CHARLIE

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • I love CHARLIE
  • three
  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red pixel dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080227061742499021106
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
462 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b697e54a2a6cf9ea67cfd83a33beb5db38bedad8e5e28f9f75e5c588a199c2a8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
b697e54a2a6cf9ea
SHA-256
b697e54a2a6cf9ea67cfd83a33beb5db38bedad8e5e28f9f75e5c588a199c2a8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083621

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" repeated in a , red pixel symbols changing across frames

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,202 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 715

Review tags

  • red pixel dots appear (action, 0.80)
  • red symbols change (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • red asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • red pixel dots (object, 0.80)
  • red plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • red x (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • red symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • red symbols change
  • red pixel dots appear

Animation

  • red symbols change from plus to asterisk to X
  • red pixel dots appear in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change from plus to asterisk to X while red pixel dots appear in the bottom

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text
  • central symbols
  • bottom dots

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" in three rows and three columns. Red pixel symbols appear in the middle row: first frame shows a red plus sign, second frame shows a red asterisk, third frame shows a red X. Additional red pixel dots appear in the bottom row across frames. Text remains static while red symbols animate.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "I love CHARLIE" repeated in a , red pixel 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love CHARLIE
  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red pixel dots
  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated text

Objects

  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red pixel dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined animation: red pixel dots appear in bottom row

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • red symbols

Visible Text

  • I love CHARLIE

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • I love CHARLIE
  • three
  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red pixel dots
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:17 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
20080227061742499021106
Archive entry
20080227061742499021106.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#20080227061742499021106.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080227061742499021106.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016