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Animated icon shows a cartoon character with yellow hair and red glasses holding an orange object against a blue sky background, transitioning to static text elements.

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Animated icon shows a cartoon character with yellow hair and red glasses holding an orange object against a blue sky background, transitioning to static text elements.

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • initial character animation
  • transition to static text frames

Animation Summary

  • Character animation transitions to static text elements: yellow 'i', green 'lovee', orange question marks with line, blue '<3' symbol.

Composition

  • character on left in initial frame
  • centered text elements
  • question marks flanking line
  • <3 symbol below line

Dense Caption

The animated asset begins with a pixelated image of a cartoon figure with bright yellow hair and red eyewear holding an orange curved object; the background includes light blue sky and green foliage. The character's face is partially visible on the left side of the frame. A small dark green heart symbol appears in the lower right corner of this initial animation frame. Subsequent frames transition to static elements: a single yellow lowercase 'i' centered on white, followed by green text reading 'lovee' (with double 'e') also centered on white. The final visible state shows orange question marks flanking an orange horizontal line on white background, with a blue '<3' symbol below it.

Description

Animated icon shows a cartoon character with yellow hair and red glasses holding an orange object against a blue sky background, transitioning to static text elements.

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
  • 20090304134630717452611

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow hair red eyewear orange object
  • green heart sky background
  • yellow i green lovee
  • question marks line <3 symbol

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Uncertain Text

  • ? ?

Visible Text

  • lovee

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • yellow hair
  • red eyewear
  • orange object
  • green heart
  • blue sky
  • white background
  • yellow 'i'
  • green 'lovee'
  • orange question marks
  • orange line
  • blue '<3'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090304134630717452611
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d03b961ce35f104868651d7f09c14ee2504fbefb7bf6faab3df16606be874b73.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
d03b961ce35f1048
SHA-256
d03b961ce35f104868651d7f09c14ee2504fbefb7bf6faab3df16606be874b73
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076439

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon shows a cartoon character with yellow hair and red glasses holding an orange object against a blue sky background, transitioning to static text elements.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,997 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 805

Review tags

  • holding object (action, 0.80)
  • transitioning to text elements (action, 0.80)
  • green heart (object, 0.80)
  • green lovee (object, 0.80)
  • orange curved object (object, 0.80)
  • orange line (object, 0.80)
  • orange question marks (object, 0.80)
  • yellow i (object, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • question marks (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding object
  • transitioning to text elements

Animation

  • initial character animation
  • transition to static text frames

Animation Summary

  • Character animation transitions to static text elements: yellow 'i', green 'lovee', orange question marks with line, blue '<3' symbol.

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • orange
  • green
  • dark green
  • light blue
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • character on left in initial frame
  • centered text elements
  • question marks flanking line
  • <3 symbol below line

Dense Caption

The animated asset begins with a pixelated image of a cartoon figure with bright yellow hair and red eyewear holding an orange curved object; the background includes light blue sky and green foliage. The character's face is partially visible on the left side of the frame. A small dark green heart symbol appears in the lower right corner of this initial animation frame. Subsequent frames transition to static elements: a single yellow lowercase 'i' centered on white, followed by green text reading 'lovee' (with double 'e') also centered on white. The final visible state shows orange question marks flanking an orange horizontal line on white background, with a blue '<3' symbol below it.

Description

Animated icon shows a cartoon character with yellow hair and red glasses holding an orange object against a blue sky background, transitioning to static text elements.

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
  • 20090304134630717452611

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow hair red eyewear orange object
  • green heart sky background
  • yellow i green lovee
  • question marks line <3 symbol

Objects

  • orange curved object
  • green heart
  • yellow 'i'
  • green 'lovee'
  • orange question marks
  • orange line
  • blue '<3'

Style

  • pixelated animation
  • text-based transition

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • heart symbol
  • question marks
  • <3 symbol

Uncertain Text

  • ? ?

Visible Text

  • lovee

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • yellow hair
  • red eyewear
  • orange object
  • green heart
  • blue sky
  • white background
  • yellow 'i'
  • green 'lovee'
  • orange question marks
  • orange line
  • blue '<3'
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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
20090304134630717452611
Archive entry
20090304134630717452611.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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

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