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Pixelated pink text 'alex' appears in four corners around a central dot cluster, with a heart icon above and starburst to the top-right on black background.

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Pixelated pink text 'alex' appears in four corners around a central dot cluster, with a heart icon above and starburst to the top-right on black background.

Pixelated pink text 'alex' appears in four corners around a central dot cluster, with a heart icon above and starburst to the top-right on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-corner layout
  • central symmetry
  • top-center heart placement
  • top-right starburst placement

Dense Caption

Black background displays four instances of pixelated lowercase 'alex' text in bright pink. Top-center shows a solid pink heart composed of 12 pixels. Top-right contains a pink starburst made of 9 dots arranged in an X pattern. Center features a circular dot cluster with 15 pink dots forming a loose ring around empty space. All elements maintain consistent pixel size and color throughout the animation sequence.

Description

Pixelated pink text 'alex' appears in four corners around a central dot cluster, with a heart icon above and starburst to the top-right on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2008101218351795490272
  • FranksIcons
  • aim buddy icons
  • historical archive of AIM icons

Named Entities

  • alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink alex text four corners
  • heart starburst dot cluster black background
  • pixelated alex buddy icon
  • four alex text pink heart

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in any frame; all elements remain fixed throughout the sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • heart
  • starburst

Visible Text

  • alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'alex'

Wordwall

  • four 'alex' text instances
  • pink heart icon
  • pink starburst icon
  • central dot cluster
  • black background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008101218351795490272
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
516 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/3028e5888e475d06e749e203b2728823ec6c1cf144c4aeb4fc3c59ec047f4b5e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
3028e5888e475d06
SHA-256
3028e5888e475d06e749e203b2728823ec6c1cf144c4aeb4fc3c59ec047f4b5e
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 12:39 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000066

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000514

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink text 'alex' appears in four corners around a central dot cluster, with a heart icon above and starburst to the top-right on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,231 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 742

Review tags

  • static display of text and icons (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart icon (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated alex text (object, 0.80)
  • starburst icon (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome color scheme (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • dot cluster (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • static display of text and icons

Colors

  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • four-corner layout
  • central symmetry
  • top-center heart placement
  • top-right starburst placement

Dense Caption

Black background displays four instances of pixelated lowercase 'alex' text in bright pink. Top-center shows a solid pink heart composed of 12 pixels. Top-right contains a pink starburst made of 9 dots arranged in an X pattern. Center features a circular dot cluster with 15 pink dots forming a loose ring around empty space. All elements maintain consistent pixel size and color throughout the animation sequence.

Description

Pixelated pink text 'alex' appears in four corners around a central dot cluster, with a heart icon above and starburst to the top-right on black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2008101218351795490272
  • FranksIcons
  • aim buddy icons
  • historical archive of AIM icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink alex text four corners
  • heart starburst dot cluster black background
  • pixelated alex buddy icon
  • four alex text pink heart

Objects

  • pixelated 'alex' text
  • heart icon
  • starburst icon
  • dot cluster

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in any frame; all elements remain fixed throughout the sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome color scheme

Subjects

  • text
  • heart
  • starburst
  • dot cluster

Visible Text

  • alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'alex'

Wordwall

  • four 'alex' text instances
  • pink heart icon
  • pink starburst icon
  • central dot cluster
  • black background
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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
2008101218351795490272
Archive entry
2008101218351795490272.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#2008101218351795490272.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008101218351795490272.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016