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Pixelated icon with four green 'hottie' texts and three pink pixel clusters on black background.

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Pixelated icon with four green 'hottie' texts and three pink pixel clusters on black background.

Pixelated icon with four green 'hottie' texts and three pink pixel clusters on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances
  • three pixel clusters
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays four instances of the word 'hottie' in bright green, each rendered as 8-bit pixel art. Three distinct pink pixel clusters appear: one heart shape at top center, one starburst pattern at top right, and one circular dot cluster at middle center. All elements maintain fixed positions across observations; no motion or state changes are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four green 'hottie' texts and three pink pixel clusters on black 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803281256451703235799

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hottie pixel art
  • green text pink pixels
  • black background icon
  • 8-bit digital heart
  • starburst dot cluster

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all observations show identical static state

Visible Text

  • hottie

Wordwall

  • green text
  • pink pixels
  • black background
  • hottie text
  • heart shape
  • starburst
  • dot cluster

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803281256451703235799
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
288 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/3083b8360d0400b4beb6567b8fa83dc99edae850222574f608de271bda03a790.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
3083b8360d0400b4
SHA-256
3083b8360d0400b4beb6567b8fa83dc99edae850222574f608de271bda03a790
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 23:37 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020434

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.020434falseharassment0.000102falsesexual/minors0.000016falsehate0.000011falseself-harm0.000005falseviolence0.000004falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseillicit0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 08:52 UTC
Run
1258
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020123

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.020123falseviolence0.001169falseself-harm0.000474falseself-harm/intent0.000213falseviolence/graphic0.000008falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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
0.313956

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.850940onnx/unsafe0.313956onnx/nsfw0.172660onnx/nsfl0.141296
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with four green 'hottie' texts and three pink pixel clusters on black background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:46 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixel clusters (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • four text instances
  • three pixel clusters
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays four instances of the word 'hottie' in bright green, each rendered as 8-bit pixel art. Three distinct pink pixel clusters appear: one heart shape at top center, one starburst pattern at top right, and one circular dot cluster at middle center. All elements maintain fixed positions across observations; no motion or state changes are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four green 'hottie' texts and three pink pixel clusters on black 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803281256451703235799

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hottie pixel art
  • green text pink pixels
  • black background icon
  • 8-bit digital heart
  • starburst dot cluster

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all observations show identical static state

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • pixel clusters

Visible Text

  • hottie

Wordwall

  • green text
  • pink pixels
  • black background
  • hottie text
  • heart shape
  • starburst
  • dot cluster
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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
200803281256451703235799
Archive entry
200803281256451703235799.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803281256451703235799.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803281256451703235799.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016