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Animated sequence showing multiple cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes with heart icons changing color and position across frames.

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Animated sequence showing multiple cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes with heart icons changing color and position across frames.

Animated sequence showing multiple cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes with heart icons changing color and position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • icon color change
  • icon position change

Animation Summary

  • Heart icons change color and position across frames while cartoon figures remain static.

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • static figures
  • moving icons

Dense Caption

The animation features a repeating pattern of cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes on a dark gray background. White heart outlines appear in the background. A green icon in the top-left corner changes to a purple icon in the center, then to an orange icon on the right, and finally to a yellow icon on the right. A purple and pink icon pair appears in the lower center. The figures remain static while the heart icons change color and position across frames.

Description

  • Animated sequence showing multiple cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes with heart icons changing color and position 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart icons changing color
  • gray shirts blue shoes
  • repeating pattern cartoon figures
  • green purple orange yellow icons
  • purple pink icon pair
  • static figures moving icons
  • dark gray background white hearts
  • buddy icons animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • repeated pattern of figures
  • static figures
  • moving icons

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • heart icons

Wordwall

  • gray shirts
  • blue shoes
  • white heart outlines
  • green icon
  • purple icon
  • orange icon
  • yellow icon
  • purple-pink icon pair
  • dark gray background
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081011093635517916236
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.7 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/eb/eb22c38a2ccf92561e4a7fd99ab74edd81632cc1fd38e6a2ac626c99137cf07a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
eb22c38a2ccf9256
SHA-256
eb22c38a2ccf92561e4a7fd99ab74edd81632cc1fd38e6a2ac626c99137cf07a
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000011

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 07:25 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Animated sequence showing multiple cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes with heart icons changing color and position across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,928 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 837

Review tags

  • icon color change (action, 0.80)
  • icon position change (action, 0.80)
  • blue shoes (object, 0.80)
  • gray shirts (object, 0.80)
  • green icon (object, 0.80)
  • orange icon (object, 0.80)
  • purple icon (object, 0.80)
  • purple pink icon pair (object, 0.80)
  • white heart outlines (object, 0.80)
  • yellow icon (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon figures (subject, 0.80)
  • heart icons (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • icon color change
  • icon position change

Animation

  • icon color change
  • icon position change

Animation Summary

  • Heart icons change color and position across frames while cartoon figures remain static.

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • green
  • purple
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • static figures
  • moving icons

Dense Caption

The animation features a repeating pattern of cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes on a dark gray background. White heart outlines appear in the background. A green icon in the top-left corner changes to a purple icon in the center, then to an orange icon on the right, and finally to a yellow icon on the right. A purple and pink icon pair appears in the lower center. The figures remain static while the heart icons change color and position across frames.

Description

  • Animated sequence showing multiple cartoon figures in gray shirts and blue shoes with heart icons changing color and position 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • gray shirts blue shoes
  • repeating pattern cartoon figures
  • green purple orange yellow icons
  • purple pink icon pair
  • static figures moving icons
  • dark gray background white hearts
  • buddy icons animation

Objects

  • gray shirts
  • blue shoes
  • white heart outlines
  • green icon
  • purple icon
  • orange icon
  • yellow icon
  • purple-pink icon pair

Preprocessing Notes

  • repeated pattern of figures
  • static figures
  • moving icons

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • cartoon figures
  • heart icons

Wordwall

  • gray shirts
  • blue shoes
  • white heart outlines
  • green icon
  • purple icon
  • orange icon
  • yellow icon
  • purple-pink icon pair
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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
20081011093635517916236
Archive entry
20081011093635517916236.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081011093635517916236.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081011093635517916236.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016