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Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a

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Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a

Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • none

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • centered text
  • identical copies

Dense Caption

Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has a red background, white concentric rings, black text "I" at the top, black text "<3" below it, and black text "SAM" at the bottom. The icons are identical in all four positions.

Description

  • Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081004185529721323130
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • SAM
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I <3 SAM
  • red white black text
  • buddy
  • text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • repeated copies in grid
  • quarantined description: Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: buddy icon grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081004185529721323130
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • SAM

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white concentric rings
  • black text
  • I <3 SAM
  • identical copies
  • centered text
  • four icons

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081004185529721323130
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b9/b98f1554df15cbbe0182cae94679d64f0d7e26008ed263d7d72e1e818b2c57cd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
b98f1554df15cbbe
SHA-256
b98f1554df15cbbe0182cae94679d64f0d7e26008ed263d7d72e1e818b2c57cd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085591

OpenAI category scores

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Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,009 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 691

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • none (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • none

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • identical copies

Dense Caption

Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has a red background, white concentric rings, black text "I" at the top, black text "<3" below it, and black text "SAM" at the bottom. The icons are identical in all four positions.

Description

  • Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081004185529721323130
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • SAM
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I <3 SAM
  • red white black text
  • buddy
  • text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • repeated copies in grid
  • quarantined description: Red circular icon with white concentric rings, black text "I <3 SAM" centered, four identical copies arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: buddy icon grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081004185529721323130
  • 2007
  • 2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • SAM

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white concentric rings
  • black text
  • I <3 SAM
  • identical copies
  • centered text
  • four icons
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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
20081004185529721323130
Archive entry
20081004185529721323130.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081004185529721323130.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081004185529721323130.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016