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Purple '<3' symbols and star clusters animate against a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Purple '<3' symbols and star clusters animate against a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Purple '<3' symbols and star clusters animate against a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star clusters shift positions

Animation Summary

  • Star clusters shift positions while <3 symbols remain static.

Composition

  • <3 symbols
  • stars scattered across background
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

<3 symbols are bright purple, each formed by two angled lines and a curved line. Stars appear as small solid shapes: some bright purple, others dark purple. Bright purple stars cluster near <3 symbols; dark purple stars scatter across the top-left and right edges. A gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. The animation shows star clusters shifting positions while <3 symbols remain static.

Description

  • Purple '<3' symbols and star clusters animate against a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20090503103735301469670

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple <3 stars
  • <3 star animation
  • black background purple stars gray rectangle
  • pixel art <3 animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: <3 symbols arranged in rows

Wordwall

  • <3
  • purple
  • stars
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • bright purple stars
  • dark purple stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090503103735301469670
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1010 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d3/d3388d9d54e5bcd84d32a649fdd67457fb0d53652064e13088c30e9199c0995b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
d3388d9d54e5bcd8
SHA-256
d3388d9d54e5bcd84d32a649fdd67457fb0d53652064e13088c30e9199c0995b
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 22:24 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001284

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Purple '<3' symbols and star clusters animate against a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,446 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 650

Review tags

  • star clusters shift positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • bright purple stars (object, 0.80)
  • dark purple stars (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • star clusters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star clusters shift positions

Animation

  • star clusters shift positions

Animation Summary

  • Star clusters shift positions while <3 symbols remain static.

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • <3 symbols
  • stars scattered across background
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

<3 symbols are bright purple, each formed by two angled lines and a curved line. Stars appear as small solid shapes: some bright purple, others dark purple. Bright purple stars cluster near <3 symbols; dark purple stars scatter across the top-left and right edges. A gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. The animation shows star clusters shifting positions while <3 symbols remain static.

Description

  • Purple '<3' symbols and star clusters animate against a black background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20090503103735301469670

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple <3 stars
  • <3 star animation
  • black background purple stars gray rectangle
  • pixel art <3 animation

Objects

  • <3 symbols
  • bright purple stars
  • dark purple stars
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: <3 symbols arranged in rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • <3 symbols
  • star clusters

Wordwall

  • <3
  • purple
  • stars
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • bright purple stars
  • dark purple stars
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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
20090503103735301469670
Archive entry
20090503103735301469670.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090503103735301469670.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090503103735301469670.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016