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Blue background with blue text and symbols, including 'i', '<3', '2', 'shop', and pink/purple asterisks.

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Blue background with blue text and symbols, including 'i', '<3', '2', 'shop', and pink/purple asterisks.

Blue background with blue text and symbols, including 'i', '<3', '2', 'shop', and pink/purple asterisks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • none

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • centered elements
  • five- layout

Dense Caption

Solid cyan background. Top row: single dark blue lowercase 'i'. Second row: dark blue left-pointing chevron followed by three-dot symbol '<3'. Third row: dark blue numeral '2'. Fourth row: dark blue word 'shop' in pixelated font. Bottom row: five asterisks; first two pink, third light purple, fourth and fifth pink. All elements are vertically centered on cyan background.

Description

  • Blue background with blue text and symbols, including 'i', '<3', '2', 'shop', and pink/purple asterisks.

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
  • 20080224072838878087586

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background dark blue text shop
  • i <3 2 shop asterisks
  • pixelated cyan pink purple
  • dark blue symbols shop five asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: five-row layout

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • 2
  • shop

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • dark blue text
  • 'i'
  • '<3'
  • '2'
  • 'shop'
  • five asterisks
  • pink/purple colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080224072838878087586
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
269 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f5/f5342447eecfb48156f807b0ed5bd34d7468fd54d5de1b97ab20f4b171bb7dc3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
f5342447eecfb481
SHA-256
f5342447eecfb48156f807b0ed5bd34d7468fd54d5de1b97ab20f4b171bb7dc3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101590

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with blue text and symbols, including 'i', '<3', '2', 'shop', and pink/purple asterisks.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:11 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 624

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • none (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • none

Colors

  • cyan
  • dark blue
  • pink
  • light purple

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • centered elements
  • five- layout

Dense Caption

Solid cyan background. Top row: single dark blue lowercase 'i'. Second row: dark blue left-pointing chevron followed by three-dot symbol '<3'. Third row: dark blue numeral '2'. Fourth row: dark blue word 'shop' in pixelated font. Bottom row: five asterisks; first two pink, third light purple, fourth and fifth pink. All elements are vertically centered on cyan background.

Description

  • Blue background with blue text and symbols, including 'i', '<3', '2', 'shop', and pink/purple asterisks.

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
  • 20080224072838878087586

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background dark blue text shop
  • i <3 2 shop asterisks
  • pixelated cyan pink purple
  • dark blue symbols shop five asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: five-row layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monospaced text

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • 2
  • shop

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • dark blue text
  • 'i'
  • '<3'
  • '2'
  • 'shop'
  • five asterisks
  • pink/purple colors
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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
20080224072838878087586
Archive entry
20080224072838878087586.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080224072838878087586.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080224072838878087586.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016