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Blue background with black text and a blue heart symbol; left side shows animated heart, right side static.

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Blue background with black text and a blue heart symbol; left side shows animated heart, right side static.

Blue background with black text and a blue heart symbol; left side shows animated heart, right side static. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol animates from blue to black

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol animates from blue to black.

Composition

  • centered vertical text layout
  • left-right split with one animated element

Dense Caption

Solid bright cyan background. Centered vertical layout: top row has 'I' (black pixelated), then '<33333' (black pixelated), then 'Erin' (black pixelated), then '4ever n' (black pixelated), then 'ever' (black pixelated). Left side of the heart symbol in '<33333' is animated blue; right side is static black. Right side shows identical text with no animation.

Description

  • Blue background with black text and a blue heart symbol; left side shows animated heart, right side static.

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

Named Entities

  • Erin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart animation
  • I <33333 Erin 4ever n ever
  • cyan background pixel art
  • animated text buddy icon

Objects

  • <33333

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <33333
  • Erin
  • 4ever n
  • ever

Visually Supported Entities

  • Erin

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • I <33333 Erin 4ever n ever
  • animated blue heart
  • static black text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080623172333126139024
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
270 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f49edbc86ce30c32ef8e89c09ed8a674d014c9488b54a725dbb5ff86c6e48a60.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
f49edbc86ce30c32
SHA-256
f49edbc86ce30c32ef8e89c09ed8a674d014c9488b54a725dbb5ff86c6e48a60
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127749

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with black text and a blue heart symbol; left side shows animated heart, right side static.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,529 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 630

Review tags

  • heart animation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 33333 (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol animates from blue to black (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart animation

Animation

  • heart symbol animates from blue to black

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol animates from blue to black.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • centered vertical text layout
  • left-right split with one animated element

Dense Caption

Solid bright cyan background. Centered vertical layout: top row has 'I' (black pixelated), then '<33333' (black pixelated), then 'Erin' (black pixelated), then '4ever n' (black pixelated), then 'ever' (black pixelated). Left side of the heart symbol in '<33333' is animated blue; right side is static black. Right side shows identical text with no animation.

Description

  • Blue background with black text and a blue heart symbol; left side shows animated heart, right side static.

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Erin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart animation
  • I <33333 Erin 4ever n ever
  • cyan background pixel art
  • animated text buddy icon

Objects

  • <33333

Style

  • pixel art
  • buddy icon
  • animated

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • <33333
  • Erin
  • 4ever n
  • ever

Visually Supported Entities

  • Erin

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • I <33333 Erin 4ever n ever
  • animated blue heart
  • static black text
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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
20080623172333126139024
Archive entry
20080623172333126139024.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080623172333126139024.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080623172333126139024.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016