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A static image with a red background featuring three yellow hearts outlined in white, overlaid with purple text fragments.

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A static image with a red background featuring three yellow hearts outlined in white, overlaid with purple text fragments.

A static image with a red background featuring three yellow hearts outlined in white, overlaid with purple text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three hearts arranged in top-left, top-right, bottom-left positions on red background

Dense Caption

The image displays a solid red background. Three identical yellow heart shapes with thick white outlines are arranged: one top-left, one top-right, and one bottom-left. Purple pixelated text fragments overlay the hearts and background; visible portions include 'luy...', 'arisa & kay', 'essa & peyt', 'tons more!', and 'ricka & em'. The image has no animation or motion.

Description

  • A static image with a red background featuring three yellow hearts outlined in white, overlaid with purple text fragments.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow hearts red background purple text
  • hearts with white outlines
  • text fragments on icon
  • buddy icons 2007-2016

Preprocessing Notes

Image contains a gray rectangle covering the bottom-right corner; this appears to be an artifact or overlay not part of the original icon design.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • luy...
  • arisa & kay
  • essa & peyt
  • tons more!
  • ricka & em

Visually Supported Entities

  • arisa & kay
  • essa & peyt
  • ricka & em

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow hearts
  • white heart outlines
  • purple text fragments
  • three hearts
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710121655161998214930
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1c/1c182be3bd92597a5821fe8ea14b3afbe2e7251167deb7ae57b05be1a4d07fbb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
1c182be3bd92597a
SHA-256
1c182be3bd92597a5821fe8ea14b3afbe2e7251167deb7ae57b05be1a4d07fbb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150621

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a red background featuring three yellow hearts outlined in white, overlaid with purple text fragments.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,298 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 715

Review tags

  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlaid (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • three hearts arranged in top-left, top-right, bottom-left positions on red background

Dense Caption

The image displays a solid red background. Three identical yellow heart shapes with thick white outlines are arranged: one top-left, one top-right, and one bottom-left. Purple pixelated text fragments overlay the hearts and background; visible portions include 'luy...', 'arisa & kay', 'essa & peyt', 'tons more!', and 'ricka & em'. The image has no animation or motion.

Description

  • A static image with a red background featuring three yellow hearts outlined in white, overlaid with purple text fragments.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow hearts red background purple text
  • hearts with white outlines
  • text fragments on icon
  • buddy icons 2007-2016

Preprocessing Notes

Image contains a gray rectangle covering the bottom-right corner; this appears to be an artifact or overlay not part of the original icon design.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-overlaid

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • luy...
  • arisa & kay
  • essa & peyt
  • tons more!
  • ricka & em

Visually Supported Entities

  • arisa & kay
  • essa & peyt
  • ricka & em

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow hearts
  • white heart outlines
  • purple text fragments
  • three hearts
  • pixelated text
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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
200710121655161998214930
Archive entry
200710121655161998214930.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710121655161998214930.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710121655161998214930.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016