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Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical

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Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical

Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical
  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

Four square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the same static image: bright green pixelated text elements reading 'i' (top), '<3' (middle-left), and 'louie' (bottom) on solid black background with thick green border. All four panels display identical content without visible differences between observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070927172101469672092

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text louie
  • i <3 louie icon
  • four green black
  • pixel art i love louie

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid green black

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • louie

Wordwall

  • green
  • black
  • pixelated
  • text
  • i
  • <3
  • louie
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070927172101469672092
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bb/bbcdf4e4c0f499f033268baa67affdab761c20306d3ef391dd1887b1d10c5d04.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
bbcdf4e4c0f499f0
SHA-256
bbcdf4e4c0f499f033268baa67affdab761c20306d3ef391dd1887b1d10c5d04
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083710

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:19 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,736 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 604

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome green on black (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • identical
  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

Four square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the same static image: bright green pixelated text elements reading 'i' (top), '<3' (middle-left), and 'louie' (bottom) on solid black background with thick green border. All four panels display identical content without visible differences between observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070927172101469672092

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text louie
  • i <3 louie icon
  • four green black
  • pixel art i love louie

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green pixelated text on black background with green border showing 'i', '<3', and 'louie' in four identical panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid green black

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome green on black

Subjects

  • text elements

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • louie

Wordwall

  • green
  • black
  • pixelated
  • text
  • i
  • <3
  • louie
  • four
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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
20070927172101469672092
Archive entry
20070927172101469672092.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070927172101469672092.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070927172101469672092.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016