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Pixelated image with colorful text and smiley icons, showing animated changes between two states.

Pixelated image with colorful text and smiley icons, showing animated changes between two states. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes (right side)

Animation Summary

  • The right side text changes from 'ilove u' to 'my life in them' while the left side remains static.

Composition

  • top text
  • left text block
  • right text block

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of pixelated smiley face icons in various colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) on a white background. The word 'TAKEN' appears at the top in large, multicolored block letters. In the left section, black text reads 'by mike' with cyan text below stating 'these 3 words have'. In the right section, green text displays 'ilove u', followed by a horizontal green line and then pink text reading 'my life in them'. The image shows an animation where the right side's text changes from 'ilove u' to 'my life in them' while the left side remains static. All text uses bold, pixelated fonts with black outlines.

Description

  • Pixelated image with colorful text and smiley icons, showing animated changes between two states.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • FranksIcons
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiley icons pixelated
  • text blocks animation
  • ilove u my life in them
  • cyan pink green line
  • TAKEN by mike these 3 words have

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • TAKEN
  • by mike
  • these 3 words have
  • ilove u
  • my life in them

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (text)
  • franksicons.com (implied by context)

Wordwall

  • smiley icons
  • multicolored block letters
  • pixelated text
  • black outlines
  • green line
  • cyan text
  • pink text
  • red smiley
  • orange smiley
  • yellow smiley
  • green smiley
  • blue smiley
  • purple smiley
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808020707471460470538
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080802070751584995694
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ffd45be05aedddbb356cc9b6c36f98e7ae37cb0d398a105c3ffdcc3a861ac6e6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
ffd45be05aedddbb
SHA-256
ffd45be05aedddbb356cc9b6c36f98e7ae37cb0d398a105c3ffdcc3a861ac6e6
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000729

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 08:50 UTC
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1179
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with colorful text and smiley icons, showing animated changes between two states.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,509 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 798

Review tags

  • text changes right side (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • multicolored (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • smiley icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes (right side)

Animation

  • text changes (right side)

Animation Summary

  • The right side text changes from 'ilove u' to 'my life in them' while the left side remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • cyan
  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top text
  • left text block
  • right text block

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of pixelated smiley face icons in various colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) on a white background. The word 'TAKEN' appears at the top in large, multicolored block letters. In the left section, black text reads 'by mike' with cyan text below stating 'these 3 words have'. In the right section, green text displays 'ilove u', followed by a horizontal green line and then pink text reading 'my life in them'. The image shows an animation where the right side's text changes from 'ilove u' to 'my life in them' while the left side remains static. All text uses bold, pixelated fonts with black outlines.

Description

  • Pixelated image with colorful text and smiley icons, showing animated changes between two states.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • FranksIcons
  • buddy-icons
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiley icons pixelated
  • text blocks animation
  • ilove u my life in them
  • cyan pink green line
  • TAKEN by mike these 3 words have

Objects

  • smiley icons
  • text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

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  • multicolored

Subjects

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  • text blocks

Visible Text

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  • by mike
  • these 3 words have
  • ilove u
  • my life in them

Visually Supported Entities

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  • franksicons.com (implied by context)

Wordwall

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  • multicolored block letters
  • pixelated text
  • black outlines
  • green line
  • cyan text
  • pink text
  • red smiley
  • orange smiley
  • yellow smiley
  • green smiley
  • blue smiley
  • purple smiley
  • white background
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Full source records (2)

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
200808020707471460470538
Archive entry
200808020707471460470538.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200808020707471460470538.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808020707471460470538.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080802070751584995694
Archive entry
20080802070751584995694.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080802070751584995694.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080802070751584995694.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016