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Pixelated icon with pink 'Alec' text and blue hearts on black background, showing animation of heart positions changing across frames.

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Pixelated icon with pink 'Alec' text and blue hearts on black background, showing animation of heart positions changing across frames.

Pixelated icon with pink 'Alec' text and blue hearts on black background, showing animation of heart positions changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts move between frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts shift positions across frames while text remains static; no other visual changes occur.

Composition

  • top hearts
  • middle-left heart
  • middle-center stacked hearts
  • middle-right heart
  • bottom-left heart
  • bottom-center pair of hearts
  • bottom-right heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated text 'Alec' in bright pink. Blue hearts appear at multiple positions: top row (leftmost, between two 'Alec', rightmost), middle-left, middle-center (two pairs stacked vertically), middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center (two side-by-side), and bottom-right. Hearts shift position across frames while text remains static; no other visual changes occur.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink 'Alec' text and blue hearts on black background, showing animation of heart positions changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007090914282661198409

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink Alec hearts
  • blue heart animation
  • pixelated Alec text
  • hearts move black background
  • Alec pink blue hearts
  • black background pixel art
  • heart position change animation
  • static text animated hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row hearts

Visible Text

  • Alec

Wordwall

  • pink 'Alec' text
  • blue hearts
  • black background
  • pixelated style
  • heart positions change

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007090914282661198409
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
662 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/177ec7b9d63330ac0f125dd8f5034a10393729093a48ad583c41eb022f36de9f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
177ec7b9d63330ac
SHA-256
177ec7b9d63330ac0f125dd8f5034a10393729093a48ad583c41eb022f36de9f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135239

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with pink 'Alec' text and blue hearts on black background, showing animation of heart positions changing across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,287 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 627

Review tags

  • hearts shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • hearts move between frames (other, 0.80)
  • animated hearts (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static text (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • hearts shift position

Animation

  • hearts move between frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts shift positions across frames while text remains static; no other visual changes occur.

Colors

  • black
  • bright pink
  • light blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • top hearts
  • middle-left heart
  • middle-center stacked hearts
  • middle-right heart
  • bottom-left heart
  • bottom-center pair of hearts
  • bottom-right heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated text 'Alec' in bright pink. Blue hearts appear at multiple positions: top row (leftmost, between two 'Alec', rightmost), middle-left, middle-center (two pairs stacked vertically), middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-center (two side-by-side), and bottom-right. Hearts shift position across frames while text remains static; no other visual changes occur.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink 'Alec' text and blue hearts on black background, showing animation of heart positions changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007090914282661198409

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue heart animation
  • pixelated Alec text
  • hearts move black background
  • Alec pink blue hearts
  • black background pixel art
  • heart position change animation
  • static text animated hearts

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • static text
  • animated hearts

Visible Text

  • Alec

Wordwall

  • pink 'Alec' text
  • blue hearts
  • black background
  • pixelated style
  • heart positions change
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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
2007090914282661198409
Archive entry
2007090914282661198409.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#2007090914282661198409.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007090914282661198409.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016