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Pixelated icon shows a figure with dark hair and light skin in profile, wearing a dark top, with a heart symbol on a light vertical bar to the left.

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Pixelated icon shows a figure with dark hair and light skin in profile, wearing a dark top, with a heart symbol on a light vertical bar to the left.

Pixelated icon shows a figure with dark hair and light skin in profile, wearing a dark top, with a heart symbol on a light vertical bar to the left. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical bar on left
  • figure on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated image with a dark background. On the left side, there is a light vertical bar containing a small heart symbol made of dark pixels. To the right of the bar, a figure with dark hair and light skin is shown in profile, facing left. The figure wears a dark top. The lower portion of the image contains pixelated text that is not clearly legible. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a figure with dark hair and light skin in profile, wearing a dark top, with a heart symbol on a light vertical bar to the left.

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

  • heart symbol profile figure
  • dark hair light skin
  • pixelated vertical bar
  • dark background figure

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • figure

Uncertain Text

  • text at bottom

Wordwall

  • heart symbol
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • profile view
  • dark top
  • light vertical bar
  • pixelated
  • dark background
  • text at bottom

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080925174206615028978
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/188952669002b86d16008ee778e2d1696a4c19d38f001488bd3dc25154aaf5f0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
188952669002b86d
SHA-256
188952669002b86d16008ee778e2d1696a4c19d38f001488bd3dc25154aaf5f0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114904

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon shows a figure with dark hair and light skin in profile, wearing a dark top, with a heart symbol on a light vertical bar to the left.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 647

Review tags

  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • vertical bar (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark
  • light
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical bar on left
  • figure on right
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated image with a dark background. On the left side, there is a light vertical bar containing a small heart symbol made of dark pixels. To the right of the bar, a figure with dark hair and light skin is shown in profile, facing left. The figure wears a dark top. The lower portion of the image contains pixelated text that is not clearly legible. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a figure with dark hair and light skin in profile, wearing a dark top, with a heart symbol on a light vertical bar to the left.

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

  • heart symbol profile figure
  • dark hair light skin
  • pixelated vertical bar
  • dark background figure

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • vertical bar

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Uncertain Text

  • text at bottom

Wordwall

  • heart symbol
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • profile view
  • dark top
  • light vertical bar
  • pixelated
  • dark background
  • text at bottom
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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
20080925174206615028978
Archive entry
20080925174206615028978.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080925174206615028978.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080925174206615028978.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016