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Blue background displays light blue text 'Gen', vertical line, '<3', 'you', and date '10/11/07' with pink heart or starburst animation above 'Gen'.

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Blue background displays light blue text 'Gen', vertical line, '<3', 'you', and date '10/11/07' with pink heart or starburst animation above 'Gen'.

Blue background displays light blue text 'Gen', vertical line, '<3', 'you', and date '10/11/07' with pink heart or starburst animation above 'Gen'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart animation appears above 'Gen'
  • starburst animation replaces heart above 'Gen'

Animation Summary

  • The animation alternates between a pink heart and a pink starburst above 'Gen' while all text remains static.

Composition

  • vertical alignment of text elements
  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

The image shows a static layout on a solid blue background. Light blue pixelated text reads "Gen" at the top left of each panel, followed by a vertical line, then "<3", then "you", and finally the date "10/11/07" in descending order. In the first observation (left), a pink heart animation appears above "Gen"; in the second observation (right), this is replaced by a pink starburst animation with scattered dots. The text remains identical across both observations.

Description

Blue background displays light blue text 'Gen', vertical line, '<3', 'you', and date '10/11/07' with pink heart or starburst animation above 'Gen'.

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
  • 20071117204734765775791

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light blue text Gen | <3 you 10/11/07
  • heart starburst animation gen

Objects

  • pink heart

Visible Text

  • Gen
  • |
  • <3
  • you
  • 10/11/07

Visually Supported Entities

  • text elements

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue pixelated text
  • text: Gen
  • text: |
  • text: <3
  • text: you
  • text: 10/11/07
  • pink heart animation
  • pink starburst animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071117204734765775791
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ecebb99e09a78b882470820ddb7647cfe936c4fe63942d3e9584849d984a5230.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
ecebb99e09a78b88
SHA-256
ecebb99e09a78b882470820ddb7647cfe936c4fe63942d3e9584849d984a5230
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076854

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background displays light blue text 'Gen', vertical line, '<3', 'you', and date '10/11/07' with pink heart or starburst animation above 'Gen'.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,665 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 759

Review tags

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  • starburst animation replaces heart above gen (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink heart (object, 0.80)
  • pink starburst dots (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static text layout (style, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart animation appears above 'Gen'
  • starburst animation replaces heart above 'Gen'

Animation

  • heart animation appears above 'Gen'
  • starburst animation replaces heart above 'Gen'

Animation Summary

  • The animation alternates between a pink heart and a pink starburst above 'Gen' while all text remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • pink

Composition

  • vertical alignment of text elements
  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

The image shows a static layout on a solid blue background. Light blue pixelated text reads "Gen" at the top left of each panel, followed by a vertical line, then "<3", then "you", and finally the date "10/11/07" in descending order. In the first observation (left), a pink heart animation appears above "Gen"; in the second observation (right), this is replaced by a pink starburst animation with scattered dots. The text remains identical across both observations.

Description

Blue background displays light blue text 'Gen', vertical line, '<3', 'you', and date '10/11/07' with pink heart or starburst animation above 'Gen'.

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
  • 20071117204734765775791

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light blue text Gen | <3 you 10/11/07
  • heart starburst animation gen

Objects

  • pink heart
  • pink starburst dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static text layout

Subjects

  • text elements

Visible Text

  • Gen
  • |
  • <3
  • you
  • 10/11/07

Visually Supported Entities

  • text elements

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue pixelated text
  • text: Gen
  • text: |
  • text: <3
  • text: you
  • text: 10/11/07
  • pink heart animation
  • pink starburst animation
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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
20071117204734765775791
Archive entry
20071117204734765775791.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#20071117204734765775791.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071117204734765775791.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016