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Red background with white text names and symbols, blue highlighted sections changing across frames.

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Red background with white text names and symbols, blue highlighted sections changing across frames.

Red background with white text names and symbols, blue highlighted sections changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • highlight shift

Animation Summary

  • Blue highlights shift across frames, highlighting 'VANESSA', 'MARIE', and 'PARISE' in sequence.

Composition

  • vertical text
  • repeating names
  • highlighted

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text: 'VANESSA', 'MARIE', 'PARISE' repeated vertically. White '<3' symbols below each name. Blue rectangular highlights shift across frames: first frame highlights 'VANESSA', second 'MARIE', third 'PARISE'. All text and symbols maintain consistent pixelated style. No additional objects or characters present.

Description

  • Red background with white text names and symbols, blue highlighted sections changing 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text blue highlights
  • VANESSA MARIE PARISE <3
  • highlight shift text repetition
  • pixelated text blue rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: highlighted rows
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • VANESSA
  • MARIE
  • PARISE
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • VANESSA
  • MARIE
  • PARISE
  • <3 symbol
  • blue highlights
  • text repetition
  • highlight shift

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708291722261553371898
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
737 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e7a29cdcd9b92d3a972504fab3bb4f6c00d0b7d8a6f11d62acac34d0b4c6ca03.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
e7a29cdcd9b92d3a
SHA-256
e7a29cdcd9b92d3a972504fab3bb4f6c00d0b7d8a6f11d62acac34d0b4c6ca03
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095253

OpenAI category scores

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

Red background with white text names and symbols, blue highlighted sections changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,351 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 595

Review tags

  • highlight shift (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue rectangles (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • highlight shift

Animation

  • highlight shift

Animation Summary

  • Blue highlights shift across frames, highlighting 'VANESSA', 'MARIE', and 'PARISE' in sequence.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • vertical text
  • repeating names
  • highlighted

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text: 'VANESSA', 'MARIE', 'PARISE' repeated vertically. White '<3' symbols below each name. Blue rectangular highlights shift across frames: first frame highlights 'VANESSA', second 'MARIE', third 'PARISE'. All text and symbols maintain consistent pixelated style. No additional objects or characters present.

Description

  • Red background with white text names and symbols, blue highlighted sections changing 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text blue highlights
  • VANESSA MARIE PARISE <3
  • highlight shift text repetition
  • pixelated text blue rectangles

Objects

  • blue rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: highlighted rows
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • VANESSA
  • MARIE
  • PARISE
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • VANESSA
  • MARIE
  • PARISE
  • <3 symbol
  • blue highlights
  • text repetition
  • highlight shift
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:35 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708291722261553371898
Archive entry
200708291722261553371898.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708291722261553371898.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708291722261553371898.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016