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Pixelated icon with blue background, peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face; text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'.

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Pixelated icon with blue background, peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face; text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'.

Pixelated icon with blue background, peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face; text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John' while background and symbols remain static.

Composition

  • central text
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with blue background featuring a blue peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face. Text overlays change across observations: first shows 'I', then 'heart', then 'John'. All text is white with black outlines. Background has orange and pink gradient accents. Icon uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with blue background, peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face; text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806171828001987705791

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • peace symbol heart smiley face
  • blue background white text
  • text changes I heart John
  • pixel art icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • heart
  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • I
  • heart
  • John

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • peace symbol
  • pink heart
  • green smiley face
  • white text
  • black outlines
  • pixel art
  • text changes
  • orange accents
  • pink accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806171828001987705791
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/df4b2ed30477d33a2de86e3da35adbf56d0bbafc548ba301972a160893200a96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
df4b2ed30477d33a
SHA-256
df4b2ed30477d33a2de86e3da35adbf56d0bbafc548ba301972a160893200a96
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086580

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with blue background, peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face; text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,819 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 829

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • peace symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • smiley face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John' while background and symbols remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • green
  • white
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • central text
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with blue background featuring a blue peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face. Text overlays change across observations: first shows 'I', then 'heart', then 'John'. All text is white with black outlines. Background has orange and pink gradient accents. Icon uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with blue background, peace symbol, pink heart, and green smiley face; text changes from 'I' to 'heart' to 'John'.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806171828001987705791

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • peace symbol heart smiley face
  • blue background white text
  • text changes I heart John
  • pixel art icon

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • peace symbol
  • heart
  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • I
  • heart
  • John

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • peace symbol
  • pink heart
  • green smiley face
  • white text
  • black outlines
  • pixel art
  • text changes
  • orange accents
  • pink accents
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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
200806171828001987705791
Archive entry
200806171828001987705791.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806171828001987705791.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806171828001987705791.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016