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A red background displays blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" with a pink heart icon that changes to a pink starburst and then a pink dotted circle across observations.

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A red background displays blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" with a pink heart icon that changes to a pink starburst and then a pink dotted circle across observations.

A red background displays blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" with a pink heart icon that changes to a pink starburst and then a pink dotted circle across observations. Animate…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • icon changes from heart to starburst to dotted circle

Animation Summary

  • The icon changes from a pink heart to a pink starburst to a pink dotted circle while the text remains constant.

Composition

  • text centered
  • icon to right of text

Dense Caption

The image shows a red background with blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" in four lines. The first line is "I", the second "Luv", the third "Collin", and the fourth "Stout". A pink heart icon appears to the right of the "I" in the first observation. In the second observation, the pink heart changes to a pink starburst. In the third observation, the pink starburst changes to a pink dotted circle. The text remains unchanged across all observations.

Description

A red background displays blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" with a pink heart icon that changes to a pink starburst and then a pink dotted circle across observations.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Luv Collin Stout
  • pink heart icon
  • pink starburst icon
  • pink dotted circle icon
  • red background blue text
  • icon changes
  • text-based icon
  • affectionate icon

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Visible Text

  • I
  • Luv
  • Collin
  • Stout

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue text
  • I Luv Collin Stout
  • pink heart icon
  • pink starburst icon
  • pink dotted circle icon
  • text unchanged
  • icon changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730141748136496385
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
325 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
c8e409aaffefd23a
SHA-256
c8e409aaffefd23a354850ff7b1a4bf8b9b5498c2cf6c8021b7c23e9bf29d9cc
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A red background displays blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" with a pink heart icon that changes to a pink starburst and then a pink dotted circle across observations.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,190 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 742

Review tags

  • icon changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted circle (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • icon changes

Animation

  • icon changes from heart to starburst to dotted circle

Animation Summary

  • The icon changes from a pink heart to a pink starburst to a pink dotted circle while the text remains constant.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • text centered
  • icon to right of text

Dense Caption

The image shows a red background with blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" in four lines. The first line is "I", the second "Luv", the third "Collin", and the fourth "Stout". A pink heart icon appears to the right of the "I" in the first observation. In the second observation, the pink heart changes to a pink starburst. In the third observation, the pink starburst changes to a pink dotted circle. The text remains unchanged across all observations.

Description

A red background displays blue text reading "I Luv Collin Stout" with a pink heart icon that changes to a pink starburst and then a pink dotted circle across observations.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Luv Collin Stout
  • pink heart icon
  • pink starburst icon
  • pink dotted circle icon
  • red background blue text
  • icon changes
  • text-based icon
  • affectionate icon

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst
  • dotted circle

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • icon

Visible Text

  • I
  • Luv
  • Collin
  • Stout

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue text
  • I Luv Collin Stout
  • pink heart icon
  • pink starburst icon
  • pink dotted circle icon
  • text unchanged
  • icon changes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
52
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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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
20070730141748136496385
Archive entry
20070730141748136496385.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730141748136496385.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730141748136496385.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016