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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with cyan star-like shapes.

Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with cyan star-like shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the central '<3' symbol shifts right by one pixel between frames

Animation Summary

  • The central '<3' symbol shifts right by one pixel between frames.

Composition

  • top text
  • middle symbols
  • bottom stars

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays black pixelated text 'Kendall Hersy' at top. Below, two identical '<3' symbols appear in black pixels. At the bottom, four cyan star-like shapes flank a central black '<3' symbol; the leftmost and rightmost stars are solid cyan while the middle two have light blue accents on their lower halves.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with cyan star-like shapes.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background Kendall Hersy
  • <3 symbols cyan stars

Visible Text

  • Kendall
  • Hersy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kendall Hersy

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • black pixelated text 'Kendall Hersy'
  • <3 symbols
  • cyan star-like shapes
  • light blue accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080307162623146263599
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
310 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/07/0799b3f294ae6bfff8253aefbdf02505e650d5e5bf583d009f6924012d366e7d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
0799b3f294ae6bff
SHA-256
0799b3f294ae6bfff8253aefbdf02505e650d5e5bf583d009f6924012d366e7d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 12:09 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000796

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
106
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with cyan star-like shapes.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:06 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,620 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 585

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • star like shapes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • the central '<3' symbol shifts right by one pixel between frames

Animation Summary

  • The central '<3' symbol shifts right by one pixel between frames.

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • cyan
  • light blue

Composition

  • top text
  • middle symbols
  • bottom stars

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays black pixelated text 'Kendall Hersy' at top. Below, two identical '<3' symbols appear in black pixels. At the bottom, four cyan star-like shapes flank a central black '<3' symbol; the leftmost and rightmost stars are solid cyan while the middle two have light blue accents on their lower halves.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with cyan star-like shapes.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background Kendall Hersy
  • <3 symbols cyan stars

Objects

  • <3 symbols
  • star-like shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Kendall
  • Hersy

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kendall Hersy

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • black pixelated text 'Kendall Hersy'
  • <3 symbols
  • cyan star-like shapes
  • light blue accents
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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
20080307162623146263599
Archive entry
20080307162623146263599.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080307162623146263599.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080307162623146263599.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016