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Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'o' in 'how' across two identical side-by-side text blocks.

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Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'o' in 'how' across two identical side-by-side text blocks.

Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'o' in 'how' across two identical side-by-side text blocks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible animation changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible animation changes.

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side blocks
  • five lines per block
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in two identical side-by-side blocks. Each block contains five lines: 'look how', 'im nicely', 'not telling', 'you your', 'dumb'. The 'o' in 'how' is replaced by a red pixelated heart symbol. Text uses a retro digital font style. Both blocks are identical in content and layout. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'o' in 'how' across two identical side-by-side text blocks.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200903011114561055082075

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • look how im nicely not telling you your dumb
  • red heart replaces o in how
  • two identical side-by-side text blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative gallery metadata

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • look how im nicely not telling you your dumb

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • identical side-by-side blocks
  • five lines per block
  • retro digital font
  • text: look how im nicely not telling you your dumb
  • heart replaces 'o' in 'how'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903011114561055082075
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/302f4007bc1a79ac5f19eba03eec875f52b88b89797b536c66a701d8880a80a8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
302f4007bc1a79ac
SHA-256
302f4007bc1a79ac5f19eba03eec875f52b88b89797b536c66a701d8880a80a8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098381

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'o' in 'how' across two identical side-by-side text blocks.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,904 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 736

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible animation changes (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible animation changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible animation changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side blocks
  • five lines per block
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in two identical side-by-side blocks. Each block contains five lines: 'look how', 'im nicely', 'not telling', 'you your', 'dumb'. The 'o' in 'how' is replaced by a red pixelated heart symbol. Text uses a retro digital font style. Both blocks are identical in content and layout. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'o' in 'how' across two identical side-by-side text blocks.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200903011114561055082075

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • look how im nicely not telling you your dumb
  • red heart replaces o in how
  • two identical side-by-side text blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • look how im nicely not telling you your dumb

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • identical side-by-side blocks
  • five lines per block
  • retro digital font
  • text: look how im nicely not telling you your dumb
  • heart replaces 'o' in 'how'
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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
200903011114561055082075
Archive entry
200903011114561055082075.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903011114561055082075.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903011114561055082075.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016