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Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical

Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical
  • centered text
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white four-pointed star shapes. Two identical vertical columns of cyan pixelated text read: top row 'I', second row 'luv', third row 'Gracie', fourth row '& Sam'. Text is rendered with blocky, low-resolution digital font typical of early internet graphics. Columns are horizontally aligned and spaced evenly across the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical

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

Named Entities

  • Gracie
  • Sam

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I luv Gracie & Sam cyan text
  • pixelated buddy icon stars
  • two vertical black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns black background

Visible Text

  • I
  • luv
  • Gracie
  • & Sam

Visually Supported Entities

  • Gracie
  • Sam

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
  • I luv Gracie & Sam
  • two vertical
  • blocky digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801071741351373622077
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
646 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dcc0355be18e9d8dc14b84479e686e7e4d2cd667142a78f4c801361935ea576e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
dcc0355be18e9d8d
SHA-256
dcc0355be18e9d8dc14b84479e686e7e4d2cd667142a78f4c801361935ea576e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077535

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,355 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 573

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • two vertical
  • centered text
  • scattered stars

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white four-pointed star shapes. Two identical vertical columns of cyan pixelated text read: top row 'I', second row 'luv', third row 'Gracie', fourth row '& Sam'. Text is rendered with blocky, low-resolution digital font typical of early internet graphics. Columns are horizontally aligned and spaced evenly across the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical

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

  • nostalgic
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Gracie
  • Sam

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I luv Gracie & Sam cyan text
  • pixelated buddy icon stars
  • two vertical black background

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text on black background with white stars, displaying "I luv Gracie & Sam" in two vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns black background

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • I
  • luv
  • Gracie
  • & Sam

Visually Supported Entities

  • Gracie
  • Sam

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
  • I luv Gracie & Sam
  • two vertical
  • blocky digital style
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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
200801071741351373622077
Archive entry
200801071741351373622077.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801071741351373622077.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801071741351373622077.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016