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Pixelated text in green, blue, and purple overlays a background of red, yellow, and white shapes with faint heart outlines.

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Pixelated text in green, blue, and purple overlays a background of red, yellow, and white shapes with faint heart outlines.

Pixelated text in green, blue, and purple overlays a background of red, yellow, and white shapes with faint heart outlines. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • stacked text blocks
  • overlapping shapes
  • faint background elements

Dense Caption

Green rectangular text boxes display 'boys are like shoes' stacked vertically. Blue rectangular text boxes show 'u love em but ur feet will grow'. Purple rectangular text boxes read 'out of them then u throw them out'. Background features overlapping red star-like shapes, yellow curved forms, and white areas with faint light gray heart outlines. Text has pixelated edges typical of low-resolution digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated text in green, blue, and purple overlays a background of red, yellow, and white shapes with faint heart outlines.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803291351551539396722

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • boys are like shoes u love em but ur feet will grow
  • text blocks red stars yellow curves faint hearts
  • green blue purple text pixelated edges
  • out of them then u throw them out

Visible Text

  • boys are like shoes
  • u love em but ur feet will grow
  • out of them then u throw them out

Wordwall

  • green text
  • blue text
  • purple text
  • red stars
  • yellow curves
  • faint hearts
  • pixelated edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803291351551539396722
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
f2e84d3c48fcdbe5
SHA-256
f2e84d3c48fcdbe5fcb758f47ac1bd482e1beb870cc9ac9b81689663408cd690
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.005675

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July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Pixelated text in green, blue, and purple overlays a background of red, yellow, and white shapes with faint heart outlines.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:14 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,908 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 600

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • stacked text blocks
  • overlapping shapes
  • faint background elements

Dense Caption

Green rectangular text boxes display 'boys are like shoes' stacked vertically. Blue rectangular text boxes show 'u love em but ur feet will grow'. Purple rectangular text boxes read 'out of them then u throw them out'. Background features overlapping red star-like shapes, yellow curved forms, and white areas with faint light gray heart outlines. Text has pixelated edges typical of low-resolution digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated text in green, blue, and purple overlays a background of red, yellow, and white shapes with faint heart outlines.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803291351551539396722

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • boys are like shoes u love em but ur feet will grow
  • text blocks red stars yellow curves faint hearts
  • green blue purple text pixelated edges
  • out of them then u throw them out

Objects

  • hearts
  • stars
  • curves

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • boys are like shoes
  • u love em but ur feet will grow
  • out of them then u throw them out

Wordwall

  • green text
  • blue text
  • purple text
  • red stars
  • yellow curves
  • faint hearts
  • pixelated edges
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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
200803291351551539396722
Archive entry
200803291351551539396722.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803291351551539396722.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803291351551539396722.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016