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Red background with white starbursts and black text reading "I Love Boys" in four identical quadrants.

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Red background with white starbursts and black text reading "I Love Boys" in four identical quadrants.

Red background with white starbursts and black text reading "I Love Boys" in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • centered text
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered white starbursts. Four identical black text blocks reading "I Love Boys" arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text block has "I" on top, "Love" in the middle, and "Boys" at the bottom. Text uses a pixelated font. Starbursts are small white crosses of varying sizes. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with white starbursts and black text reading "I Love Boys" in four identical quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070805093123900625868
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white starbursts I Love Boys
  • pixelated text I Love Boys
  • I Love Boys
  • white starbursts red background I Love Boys

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid I Love Boys

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I Love Boys

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white starbursts
  • black text
  • I Love Boys
  • pixelated font
  • four identical text blocks
  • small white crosses

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805093123900625868
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
604 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 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
d41bd8f621c06ad0
SHA-256
d41bd8f621c06ad041d696f8e8825d88c4ddd31d70fb930f9b0f80d6d913775c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
1095
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113546

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with white starbursts and black text reading "I Love Boys" in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,714 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 731

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered white starbursts. Four identical black text blocks reading "I Love Boys" arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text block has "I" on top, "Love" in the middle, and "Boys" at the bottom. Text uses a pixelated font. Starbursts are small white crosses of varying sizes. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with white starbursts and black text reading "I Love Boys" in four identical quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070805093123900625868
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white starbursts I Love Boys
  • pixelated text I Love Boys
  • I Love Boys
  • white starbursts red background I Love Boys

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid I Love Boys

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I Love Boys

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white starbursts
  • black text
  • I Love Boys
  • pixelated font
  • four identical text blocks
  • small white crosses
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:27 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070805093123900625868
Archive entry
20070805093123900625868.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070805093123900625868.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805093123900625868.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016