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Animated icon with watercolor hearts background; orange text changes from 'I' to '<3' then to 'tAsHa' over time.

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Animated icon with watercolor hearts background; orange text changes from 'I' to '<3' then to 'tAsHa' over time.

Animated icon with watercolor hearts background; orange text changes from 'I' to '<3' then to 'tAsHa' over time. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'tAsHa'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'tAsHa'

Composition

  • repeating heart pattern
  • central text elements

Dense Caption

Watercolor-style heart pattern background in cyan, yellow, pink, and green on white. Animated sequence shows three distinct states: first state displays an orange vertical bar inside a black rectangle (text 'I'); second state replaces it with an orange '<3' symbol; third state changes to the text 'tAsHa'. All text elements have black outlines. The heart pattern remains static throughout.

Description

  • Animated icon with watercolor hearts background; orange text changes from 'I' to '<3' then to 'tAsHa' over time.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • watercolor hearts
  • <3 symbol
  • tAsHa text
  • cyan yellow pink green hearts

Objects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • tAsHa

Visually Supported Entities

  • tAsHa

Wordwall

  • watercolor hearts
  • cyan yellow pink green hearts
  • white background
  • orange text
  • black outline on text
  • animated sequence
  • <3 symbol
  • 'I' text
  • 'tAsHa' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807191428431725585122
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d9c58b78c66ace013805418300ecf4c70d4fd5e96636a65e149c7e37e2d04925.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
d9c58b78c66ace01
SHA-256
d9c58b78c66ace013805418300ecf4c70d4fd5e96636a65e149c7e37e2d04925
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002779

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Animated icon with watercolor hearts background; orange text changes from 'I' to '<3' then to 'tAsHa' over time.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,339 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 627

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text symbols (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • watercolor (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'tAsHa'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'tAsHa'

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • pink
  • green
  • white
  • orange
  • black

Composition

  • repeating heart pattern
  • central text elements

Dense Caption

Watercolor-style heart pattern background in cyan, yellow, pink, and green on white. Animated sequence shows three distinct states: first state displays an orange vertical bar inside a black rectangle (text 'I'); second state replaces it with an orange '<3' symbol; third state changes to the text 'tAsHa'. All text elements have black outlines. The heart pattern remains static throughout.

Description

  • Animated icon with watercolor hearts background; orange text changes from 'I' to '<3' then to 'tAsHa' over time.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • watercolor hearts
  • <3 symbol
  • tAsHa text
  • cyan yellow pink green hearts

Objects

  • heart shapes
  • text symbols

Style

  • watercolor
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • tAsHa

Visually Supported Entities

  • tAsHa

Wordwall

  • watercolor hearts
  • cyan yellow pink green hearts
  • white background
  • orange text
  • black outline on text
  • animated sequence
  • <3 symbol
  • 'I' text
  • 'tAsHa' text
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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
200807191428431725585122
Archive entry
200807191428431725585122.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807191428431725585122.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807191428431725585122.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016