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Yellow outlined black <3 symbols on bright green background, some symbols duplicated and overlapping in a scattered arrangement.

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Yellow outlined black <3 symbols on bright green background, some symbols duplicated and overlapping in a scattered arrangement.

Yellow outlined black <3 symbols on bright green background, some symbols duplicated and overlapping in a scattered arrangement. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static arrangement of symbols.

Composition

  • scattered
  • overlapping
  • multiple instances

Dense Caption

Bright green background with multiple yellow-outlined black <3 symbols. Symbols appear in various positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right. Some symbols overlap, particularly in the middle row where two symbols are side-by-side. All symbols maintain consistent <3 shape and color scheme. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Yellow outlined black <3 symbols on bright green background, some symbols duplicated and overlapping in a scattered arrangement.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080907102529247942301
  • 200809071025311669978898
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbols bright green background
  • <3 symbols yellow outline
  • multiple <3 symbols scattered
  • overlapping <3 symbols bright green

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static arrangement of symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and provenance but does not affect visual description

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • <3 symbols
  • yellow outline
  • black symbols
  • bright green background
  • multiple symbols
  • scattered arrangement
  • overlapping symbols
  • consistent shape
  • consistent color scheme

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080907102529247942301
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809071025311669978898
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d3/d39ea2a3fb8aa8fbbdab1fd13f00c1f9ca2fb88ed0817f0e3f2bde9681a025d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
d39ea2a3fb8aa8fb
SHA-256
d39ea2a3fb8aa8fbbdab1fd13f00c1f9ca2fb88ed0817f0e3f2bde9681a025d0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Run
104
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098074

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921015onnx/unsafe0.098074onnx/nsfw0.058064onnx/nsfl0.040010
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Yellow outlined black <3 symbols on bright green background, some symbols duplicated and overlapping in a scattered arrangement.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,678 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,207, response 710

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • simple (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static arrangement of symbols.

Colors

  • bright green
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • scattered
  • overlapping
  • multiple instances

Dense Caption

Bright green background with multiple yellow-outlined black <3 symbols. Symbols appear in various positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, middle-left, middle-center, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right. Some symbols overlap, particularly in the middle row where two symbols are side-by-side. All symbols maintain consistent <3 shape and color scheme. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Yellow outlined black <3 symbols on bright green background, some symbols duplicated and overlapping in a scattered arrangement.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080907102529247942301
  • 200809071025311669978898
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbols bright green background
  • <3 symbols yellow outline
  • multiple <3 symbols scattered
  • overlapping <3 symbols bright green

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static arrangement of symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and provenance but does not affect visual description

Style

  • pixelated
  • simple
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • <3 symbols

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • <3 symbols
  • yellow outline
  • black symbols
  • bright green background
  • multiple symbols
  • scattered arrangement
  • overlapping symbols
  • consistent shape
  • consistent color scheme
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Full source records (2)

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
20080907102529247942301
Archive entry
20080907102529247942301.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080907102529247942301.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080907102529247942301.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200809071025311669978898
Archive entry
200809071025311669978898.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809071025311669978898.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809071025311669978898.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016