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Brown U-shaped object with pink heart and dark brown 'UGS' text on bright pink background.

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Brown U-shaped object with pink heart and dark brown 'UGS' text on bright pink background.

Brown U-shaped object with pink heart and dark brown 'UGS' text on bright pink background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-200…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text below main shapes
  • left-aligned U-shape with heart to its right

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Left side features a large, pixelated brown U-shaped object resembling boots or footwear. To the right of this shape is a small, light pink outlined heart symbol. Below both elements, centered horizontally, are three bold dark brown letters: 'U', 'G', and 'S' in a blocky font with rounded edges. The entire image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Brown U-shaped object with pink heart and dark brown 'UGS' text on bright pink background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background UGS heart
  • brown U-shape pink heart
  • pixelated UGS icon
  • UGS text bright pink

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • UGS

Visually Supported Entities

  • UGS

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • brown U-shape
  • light pink heart
  • UGS text
  • pixelated
  • blocky letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071227123330143041213
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/25/254f31370c09d267ca7b2389165ea37112912350eb734c3ebae9c2988161d381.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
254f31370c09d267
SHA-256
254f31370c09d267ca7b2389165ea37112912350eb734c3ebae9c2988161d381
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 03:58 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000513

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Brown U-shaped object with pink heart and dark brown 'UGS' text on bright pink background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:04 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,910 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 575

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • u shaped object (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • brown
  • light pink
  • dark brown

Composition

  • centered text below main shapes
  • left-aligned U-shape with heart to its right

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Left side features a large, pixelated brown U-shaped object resembling boots or footwear. To the right of this shape is a small, light pink outlined heart symbol. Below both elements, centered horizontally, are three bold dark brown letters: 'U', 'G', and 'S' in a blocky font with rounded edges. The entire image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Brown U-shaped object with pink heart and dark brown 'UGS' text on bright pink background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background UGS heart
  • brown U-shape pink heart
  • pixelated UGS icon
  • UGS text bright pink

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • U-shaped object
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • UGS

Visually Supported Entities

  • UGS

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • brown U-shape
  • light pink heart
  • UGS text
  • pixelated
  • blocky letters
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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
20071227123330143041213
Archive entry
20071227123330143041213.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071227123330143041213.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071227123330143041213.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016