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Animated icon with blue and gray chevron patterns and changing text elements.

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Animated icon with blue and gray chevron patterns and changing text elements.

Animated icon with blue and gray chevron patterns and changing text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'Rick Davis'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'Rick Davis' while chevron patterns remain static.

Composition

  • repeating chevron patterns
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The icon features a background of repeating chevron patterns in light blue and gray on white. The chevron shapes are stylized and layered. In the top-left frame, the text 'i' appears in dark blue. In the top-right frame, the text 'love' appears in dark blue. In the bottom-left frame, the text 'Rick Davis' appears in dark blue. The chevron patterns remain consistent across all frames. The icon has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Animated icon with blue and gray chevron patterns and changing 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chevron patterns dark blue text
  • i love Rick Davis
  • pixelated text animation
  • low-resolution chevron icon
  • dark blue text on white
  • chevron background text
  • text changes chevron patterns
  • Rick Davis text animation

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • Rick Davis

Wordwall

  • chevron patterns
  • light blue
  • gray
  • white background
  • dark blue text
  • i
  • love
  • Rick Davis
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated text
  • repeating shapes
  • stylized lines
  • consistent background
  • text changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070808143926295322204
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d8ffc6fdbf31aacf4ea9dba3a45657072d29754b364bc64a154db9ddcd822e97.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
d8ffc6fdbf31aacf
SHA-256
d8ffc6fdbf31aacf4ea9dba3a45657072d29754b364bc64a154db9ddcd822e97
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
1093
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075619

OpenAI category scores

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

Animated icon with blue and gray chevron patterns and changing text elements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,881 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 674

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • chevron patterns (object, 0.80)
  • text changes from i to love to rick davis (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'Rick Davis'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'i' to 'love' to 'Rick Davis' while chevron patterns remain static.

Colors

  • light blue
  • gray
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • repeating chevron patterns
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The icon features a background of repeating chevron patterns in light blue and gray on white. The chevron shapes are stylized and layered. In the top-left frame, the text 'i' appears in dark blue. In the top-right frame, the text 'love' appears in dark blue. In the bottom-left frame, the text 'Rick Davis' appears in dark blue. The chevron patterns remain consistent across all frames. The icon has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Animated icon with blue and gray chevron patterns and changing 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chevron patterns dark blue text
  • i love Rick Davis
  • pixelated text animation
  • low-resolution chevron icon
  • dark blue text on white
  • chevron background text
  • text changes chevron patterns
  • Rick Davis text animation

Objects

  • chevron patterns

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • Rick Davis

Wordwall

  • chevron patterns
  • light blue
  • gray
  • white background
  • dark blue text
  • i
  • love
  • Rick Davis
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated text
  • repeating shapes
  • stylized lines
  • consistent background
  • text changes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:53 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
20070808143926295322204
Archive entry
20070808143926295322204.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070808143926295322204.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070808143926295322204.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016