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Animated icon shows a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, transitioning to a person in red shirt with yellow collar against dark background.

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Animated icon shows a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, transitioning to a person in red shirt with yellow collar against dark background.

Animated icon shows a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, transitioning to a person in red shirt with yellow collar against dark background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • state transition

Animation Summary

The icon transitions between two states: first a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, then a person in red shirt with yellow collar.

Composition

  • two-state animation
  • centered figures
  • background elements

Dense Caption

The icon displays two distinct animated states. In the first state, a figure in white clothing with a yellow collar appears, featuring two red heart symbols on the chest; the background includes blue and brown elements. In the second state, the figure changes to a person wearing a red shirt with a yellow collar, set against a dark background with red and brown tones. The animation transitions between these two states without additional motion details.

Description

Animated icon shows a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, transitioning to a person in red shirt with yellow collar against dark background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person white heart symbols
  • person red shirt yellow collar
  • two state animation
  • heart symbols red
  • red shirt yellow collar
  • white clothing blue background
  • red shirt dark background
  • heart symbols yellow collar

Objects

  • heart symbols

Wordwall

  • white clothing
  • red heart symbols
  • yellow collar
  • blue background elements
  • brown background elements
  • red shirt
  • dark background
  • two animated states

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090218171325860795841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8b22e23396a175b997a50a72b9be3b4b58c8f316db266448ad745b41e4a5180.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
f8b22e23396a175b
SHA-256
f8b22e23396a175b997a50a72b9be3b4b58c8f316db266448ad745b41e4a5180
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104234

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon shows a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, transitioning to a person in red shirt with yellow collar against dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,205 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 710

Review tags

  • transition (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • collar (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transition

Animation

  • state transition

Animation Summary

The icon transitions between two states: first a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, then a person in red shirt with yellow collar.

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown
  • dark

Composition

  • two-state animation
  • centered figures
  • background elements

Dense Caption

The icon displays two distinct animated states. In the first state, a figure in white clothing with a yellow collar appears, featuring two red heart symbols on the chest; the background includes blue and brown elements. In the second state, the figure changes to a person wearing a red shirt with a yellow collar, set against a dark background with red and brown tones. The animation transitions between these two states without additional motion details.

Description

Animated icon shows a person in white with red heart symbols on chest, transitioning to a person in red shirt with yellow collar against dark background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person white heart symbols
  • person red shirt yellow collar
  • two state animation
  • heart symbols red
  • red shirt yellow collar
  • white clothing blue background
  • red shirt dark background
  • heart symbols yellow collar

Objects

  • heart symbols
  • shirt
  • collar

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • white clothing
  • red heart symbols
  • yellow collar
  • blue background elements
  • brown background elements
  • red shirt
  • dark background
  • two animated states
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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
20090218171325860795841
Archive entry
20090218171325860795841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090218171325860795841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090218171325860795841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016