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A static icon with a bright cyan background bordered by green, displaying repeated pink text and symbols.

A static icon with a bright cyan background bordered by green, displaying repeated pink text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; all are identical static images

Composition

  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel has a solid cyan background with a thick green border. Within each panel, the top and bottom sections contain repeating pink pixelated sequences of '<3<3<3<3'. The middle section displays the word 'Christine' in pink pixelated text. All panels are visually identical; there is no animation or variation between them.

Description

  • A static icon with a bright cyan background bordered by green, displaying repeated pink text and symbols.

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
  • 20080514165303460562098

Named Entities

  • Christine

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan green pink Christine
  • <3<3<3<3 Christine
  • pixelated Christine heart symbols cyan background
  • Christine <3<3<3<3 cyan green border

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four panels are visually identical; no animation or content change observed.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; all panels are identical static images.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: <3<3<3<3 Christine 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • <3<3<3<3
  • Christine

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green border
  • pink text
  • '<3<3<3<3' symbol sequence
  • 'Christine' name text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080514165303460562098
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8b9bc6062a7930b7212b9cdfe2b25d675fa17b172c603eea09749b87840a172.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
f8b9bc6062a7930b
SHA-256
f8b9bc6062a7930b7212b9cdfe2b25d675fa17b172c603eea09749b87840a172
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002786

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000527

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000527falseself-harm0.000473falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000119falseviolence/graphic0.000010falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.343061

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static icon with a bright cyan background bordered by green, displaying repeated pink text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,584 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 612

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • symbols (object, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols 3 (subject, 0.80)
  • name christine (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; all are identical static images

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel has a solid cyan background with a thick green border. Within each panel, the top and bottom sections contain repeating pink pixelated sequences of '<3<3<3<3'. The middle section displays the word 'Christine' in pink pixelated text. All panels are visually identical; there is no animation or variation between them.

Description

  • A static icon with a bright cyan background bordered by green, displaying repeated pink text and symbols.

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
  • 20080514165303460562098

Named Entities

  • Christine

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan green pink Christine
  • <3<3<3<3 Christine
  • pixelated Christine heart symbols cyan background
  • Christine <3<3<3<3 cyan green border

Objects

  • text characters
  • symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four panels are visually identical; no animation or content change observed.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; all panels are identical static images.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: <3<3<3<3 Christine 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • static

Subjects

  • name 'Christine'
  • heart symbols '<3'

Visible Text

  • <3<3<3<3
  • Christine

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green border
  • pink text
  • '<3<3<3<3' symbol sequence
  • 'Christine' name 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
20080514165303460562098
Archive entry
20080514165303460562098.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080514165303460562098.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080514165303460562098.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016