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A vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background, displaying text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

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A vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background, displaying text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

A vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background, displaying text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'i' to 'love'
  • text changes from 'u' to 'love'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

Composition

  • vertical stack
  • text to right
  • text below

Dense Caption

The image shows a vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background. The stack consists of four distinct horizontal sections: a purple top section with white patterns, a brown middle section, a blue section with white patterns, and a green section. In the first frame, the text 'i' appears to the right of the stack. In the second frame, the text changes to 'love'. In the third frame, the text 'u' appears below the stack. In the fourth frame, the text changes to 'love'. The background is black, and the text is white. The stack of shapes remains consistent across all frames.

Description

  • A vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background, displaying text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stack of shapes text changes
  • purple brown blue green stack
  • black background white text love
  • i love u love stack

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • u

Wordwall

  • vertical stack
  • four sections
  • purple top
  • brown middle
  • blue section
  • green section
  • black background
  • white text
  • text changes
  • i to love
  • u to love

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806154051482223740
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/ddfc3e1a927834d5913ce2b613cd2dce873a753d6ae6d005594569c54f9a4d4f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
ddfc3e1a927834d5
SHA-256
ddfc3e1a927834d5913ce2b613cd2dce873a753d6ae6d005594569c54f9a4d4f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.101839

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background, displaying text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,780 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 745

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes from i to love (other, 0.80)
  • layered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stack of shapes (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from 'i' to 'love'
  • text changes from 'u' to 'love'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

Colors

  • purple
  • brown
  • blue
  • green
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical stack
  • text to right
  • text below

Dense Caption

The image shows a vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background. The stack consists of four distinct horizontal sections: a purple top section with white patterns, a brown middle section, a blue section with white patterns, and a green section. In the first frame, the text 'i' appears to the right of the stack. In the second frame, the text changes to 'love'. In the third frame, the text 'u' appears below the stack. In the fourth frame, the text changes to 'love'. The background is black, and the text is white. The stack of shapes remains consistent across all frames.

Description

  • A vertical stack of layered shapes with a black background, displaying text changes from 'i' to 'love' and 'u' to 'love' across frames.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stack of shapes text changes
  • purple brown blue green stack
  • black background white text love
  • i love u love stack

Objects

  • stack of shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • layered

Subjects

  • stack of shapes

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • u

Wordwall

  • vertical stack
  • four sections
  • purple top
  • brown middle
  • blue section
  • green section
  • black background
  • white text
  • text changes
  • i to love
  • u to love
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:36 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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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
20070806154051482223740
Archive entry
20070806154051482223740.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#20070806154051482223740.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806154051482223740.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016