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Yellow background with purple heart pattern, black text elements repeating across the image, no visible motion changes between observations.

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Yellow background with purple heart pattern, black text elements repeating across the image, no visible motion changes between observations.

Yellow background with purple heart pattern, black text elements repeating across the image, no visible motion changes between observations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes between observations

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Yellow background filled with repeating purple heart shapes. Black text elements include "I <3" positioned above "You" text, with "9/21/08" text below. The text and heart pattern repeat across the image in a grid-like arrangement. All visible elements remain static between observations; no animation changes are present. Text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font style. The heart pattern covers the entire background uniformly. The text elements are consistently spaced and aligned across the image. The color palette consists of bright yellow, purple, and black. The image shows no visible motion or change between observations; it is a static composition with repeated text and pattern elements.

Description

  • Yellow background with purple heart pattern, black text elements repeating across the image, no visible motion changes between 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • yellow purple heart pattern
  • I <3 You 9/21/08
  • pixelated text
  • static buddy icon
  • heart background text
  • repeating pattern icon
  • 9/21/08 text
  • I <3 You text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • You
  • 9/21/08

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • purple heart pattern
  • black text
  • "I <3" text
  • "You" text
  • "9/21/08" text
  • pixelated font
  • repeating pattern
  • arrangement
  • static image

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811051311471549844986
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cb/cb0bef7f784220e81fec65e48e52e37ebc49fdab51e753da301a0a9add398937.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
cb0bef7f784220e8
SHA-256
cb0bef7f784220e81fec65e48e52e37ebc49fdab51e753da301a0a9add398937
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 22:54 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.003031

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010425

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.251228

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow background with purple heart pattern, black text elements repeating across the image, no visible motion changes between observations.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,890 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 739

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes between observations

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Yellow background filled with repeating purple heart shapes. Black text elements include "I <3" positioned above "You" text, with "9/21/08" text below. The text and heart pattern repeat across the image in a grid-like arrangement. All visible elements remain static between observations; no animation changes are present. Text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font style. The heart pattern covers the entire background uniformly. The text elements are consistently spaced and aligned across the image. The color palette consists of bright yellow, purple, and black. The image shows no visible motion or change between observations; it is a static composition with repeated text and pattern elements.

Description

  • Yellow background with purple heart pattern, black text elements repeating across the image, no visible motion changes between 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • yellow purple heart pattern
  • I <3 You 9/21/08
  • pixelated text
  • static buddy icon
  • heart background text
  • repeating pattern icon
  • 9/21/08 text
  • I <3 You text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • You
  • 9/21/08

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • purple heart pattern
  • black text
  • "I <3" text
  • "You" text
  • "9/21/08" text
  • pixelated font
  • repeating pattern
  • arrangement
  • static image
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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
200811051311471549844986
Archive entry
200811051311471549844986.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811051311471549844986.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811051311471549844986.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016