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Pixelated cyan heart and 'hi' text appear in four positions on a black background, with one cluster of cyan dots animating between them.

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Pixelated cyan heart and 'hi' text appear in four positions on a black background, with one cluster of cyan dots animating between them.

Pixelated cyan heart and 'hi' text appear in four positions on a black background, with one cluster of cyan dots animating between them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • bottom-center cyan dots expand from dense circle to scattered points

Animation Summary

  • Bottom-center cyan dots expand from dense circle to scattered points while other elements remain static.

Composition

  • four corners with 'hi'
  • centered heart and dot clusters

Dense Caption

Black background displays four white 'hi' texts at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Top-center shows a cyan pixelated heart; top-right has a cyan dot cluster forming an X shape. Bottom-center features a cyan dot cluster in a circular pattern that animates to expand outward. All elements are static except the bottom-center dots which change from dense circle to scattered points.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan heart and 'hi' text appear in four positions on a black background, with one cluster of cyan dots animating between them.

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
  • 200801021617391372307099

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart 'hi' dots
  • 'hi' text cyan dots black background
  • pixelated cyan heart animation
  • four corners 'hi' cyan dots

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • hi

Wordwall

  • cyan
  • heart
  • 'hi'
  • dots
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • top-left 'hi'
  • top-right 'hi'
  • bottom-left 'hi'
  • bottom-right 'hi'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801021617391372307099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
271 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32c630f0e2d7a5c046c9fe053116d31b4e46ed018406896456e51d99786581fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
32c630f0e2d7a5c0
SHA-256
32c630f0e2d7a5c046c9fe053116d31b4e46ed018406896456e51d99786581fa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.142414

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan heart and 'hi' text appear in four positions on a black background, with one cluster of cyan dots animating between them.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,480 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 700

Review tags

  • dots expand outward (action, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cyan dots (object, 0.80)
  • cyan heart (object, 0.80)
  • white hi texts (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • hi text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • dots expand outward

Animation

  • bottom-center cyan dots expand from dense circle to scattered points

Animation Summary

  • Bottom-center cyan dots expand from dense circle to scattered points while other elements remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • four corners with 'hi'
  • centered heart and dot clusters

Dense Caption

Black background displays four white 'hi' texts at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Top-center shows a cyan pixelated heart; top-right has a cyan dot cluster forming an X shape. Bottom-center features a cyan dot cluster in a circular pattern that animates to expand outward. All elements are static except the bottom-center dots which change from dense circle to scattered points.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan heart and 'hi' text appear in four positions on a black background, with one cluster of cyan dots animating between them.

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
  • 200801021617391372307099

Mood

  • playful
  • minimalist

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  • white 'hi' texts

Style

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  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

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  • dots
  • 'hi' text

Visible Text

  • hi

Wordwall

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  • 'hi'
  • dots
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  • pixelated
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  • top-right 'hi'
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  • bottom-right 'hi'
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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
200801021617391372307099
Archive entry
200801021617391372307099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801021617391372307099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801021617391372307099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016