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Pixelated icon with black background, purple heart and starburst shapes, repeating white text "BreakDown. BreakDown." across top and bottom.

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Pixelated icon with black background, purple heart and starburst shapes, repeating white text "BreakDown. BreakDown." across top and bottom.

Pixelated icon with black background, purple heart and starburst shapes, repeating white text "BreakDown. BreakDown." across top and bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text top and bottom
  • centered starburst above lower text
  • heart and starburst at top corners

Dense Caption

Black background displays two rows of white pixelated text reading "BreakDown. BreakDown." at the top and bottom edges. Centered above the lower text row is a small cluster of blue-purple pixels forming an irregular starburst shape. Top center features a solid purple heart made of 12 pixels, while top right shows another blue-purple starburst with 9 visible pixels. All elements are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with black background, purple heart and starburst shapes, repeating white text "BreakDown. BreakDown." across top and bottom.

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
  • 200801171404011121724027

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • breakdown text pixel art
  • purple heart starburst icon
  • black background white text
  • pixelated breakdown icon

Visible Text

  • BreakDown. BreakDown.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • purple heart (12 pixels)
  • blue-purple starbursts (two)
  • repeating "BreakDown" text
  • static icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801171404011121724027
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
292 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1a/1aff9d6634c81f834b0025966fe15bf270ad93f6f51d05c8509a96b3c5563f25.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
1aff9d6634c81f83
SHA-256
1aff9d6634c81f834b0025966fe15bf270ad93f6f51d05c8509a96b3c5563f25
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120352

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with black background, purple heart and starburst shapes, repeating white text "BreakDown. BreakDown." across top and bottom.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:00 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,838 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome text with accent colors (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • purple
  • blue-purple

Composition

  • text top and bottom
  • centered starburst above lower text
  • heart and starburst at top corners

Dense Caption

Black background displays two rows of white pixelated text reading "BreakDown. BreakDown." at the top and bottom edges. Centered above the lower text row is a small cluster of blue-purple pixels forming an irregular starburst shape. Top center features a solid purple heart made of 12 pixels, while top right shows another blue-purple starburst with 9 visible pixels. All elements are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with black background, purple heart and starburst shapes, repeating white text "BreakDown. BreakDown." across top and bottom.

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
  • 200801171404011121724027

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • breakdown text pixel art
  • purple heart starburst icon
  • black background white text
  • pixelated breakdown icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome text with accent colors

Visible Text

  • BreakDown. BreakDown.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • purple heart (12 pixels)
  • blue-purple starbursts (two)
  • repeating "BreakDown" text
  • static icon
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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
200801171404011121724027
Archive entry
200801171404011121724027.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801171404011121724027.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801171404011121724027.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016