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Four pink-bordered square display identical text with one showing a heart and another a star

Four pink-bordered square display identical text with one showing a heart and another a star. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-right shows heart symbol
  • bottom-right shows asterisk symbol

Animation Summary

The icon has two distinct visual states: one with a heart symbol and another with an asterisk, both appearing to the right of "ANQ" in separate

Composition

  • four in
  • centered text
  • bordered square

Dense Caption

The image shows four distinct visual states of the same icon. Each state has a white background with pink pixelated text reading "I Love You Alex<3 ANQ" arranged in five lines, enclosed by a thin pink border. The top-right panel includes a small solid pink heart symbol to the right of "ANQ." The bottom-right panel shows a small pink asterisk symbol to the right of "ANQ." All other panels are identical with no additional symbols.

Description

  • Four pink-bordered square display identical text with one showing a heart and another a star

Identity Hypotheses

  • Alex

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
  • 200803081900581590600012
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Love You Alex<3 ANQ
  • heart symbol text
  • asterisk symbol text
  • pink pixelated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pink-bordered square panels display identical text with one panel showing a heart and another a star.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The icon has two distinct visual states: one with a heart symbol and another with an asterisk, both appearing to the right of "ANQ" in separate panels.
  • quarantined composition: four panels in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: bottom-right panel shows asterisk symbol
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel shows heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • You
  • Alex<3
  • ANQ

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • pink text
  • white background
  • four visual states
  • text: I Love You Alex<3 ANQ
  • top-right heart
  • bottom-right asterisk

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803081900581590600012
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d4/d4941c6aeb1bd719148585718c36df84151f4c380513910f99546b9e94c7b986.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
d4941c6aeb1bd719
SHA-256
d4941c6aeb1bd719148585718c36df84151f4c380513910f99546b9e94c7b986
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July 31, 2026 at 12:32 UTC
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Preprocessing
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Four pink-bordered square display identical text with one showing a heart and another a star

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,243 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 721

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • bottom right shows asterisk symbol (other, 0.80)
  • top right shows heart symbol (other, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • asterisk symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right shows heart symbol
  • bottom-right shows asterisk symbol

Animation Summary

The icon has two distinct visual states: one with a heart symbol and another with an asterisk, both appearing to the right of "ANQ" in separate

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • four in
  • centered text
  • bordered square

Dense Caption

The image shows four distinct visual states of the same icon. Each state has a white background with pink pixelated text reading "I Love You Alex<3 ANQ" arranged in five lines, enclosed by a thin pink border. The top-right panel includes a small solid pink heart symbol to the right of "ANQ." The bottom-right panel shows a small pink asterisk symbol to the right of "ANQ." All other panels are identical with no additional symbols.

Description

  • Four pink-bordered square display identical text with one showing a heart and another a star

Identity Hypotheses

  • Alex

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
  • 200803081900581590600012
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I Love You Alex<3 ANQ
  • heart symbol text
  • asterisk symbol text
  • pink pixelated text

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pink-bordered square panels display identical text with one panel showing a heart and another a star.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The icon has two distinct visual states: one with a heart symbol and another with an asterisk, both appearing to the right of "ANQ" in separate panels.
  • quarantined composition: four panels in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: bottom-right panel shows asterisk symbol
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel shows heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • You
  • Alex<3
  • ANQ

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • pink text
  • white background
  • four visual states
  • text: I Love You Alex<3 ANQ
  • top-right heart
  • bottom-right asterisk
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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
200803081900581590600012
Archive entry
200803081900581590600012.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803081900581590600012.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803081900581590600012.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016