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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'MCR Saved My Life' and a red pixelated heart symbol above 'MCR' on the left side.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading 'MCR Saved My Life' and a red pixelated heart symbol above 'MCR' on the left side.

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'MCR Saved My Life' and a red pixelated heart symbol above 'MCR' on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in four lines
  • heart positioned above 'MCR' on left
  • symmetrical layout with left heart
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in four lines: 'MCR' at top, 'Saved' below it, 'My' below 'Saved', and 'Life' at bottom. A red pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the 'MCR' text on the left side. The right side of the image mirrors the left with identical white pixelated text and no heart symbol. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The heart symbol is composed of red pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'MCR Saved My Life' and a red pixelated heart symbol above 'MCR' on the left side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixel art text heart
  • white text red heart black background
  • MCR Saved My Life pixel art
  • heart above MCR text
  • text heart symbol
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  • MCR Saved My Life heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • MCR
  • Saved
  • My
  • Life

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red pixelated heart
  • MCR Saved My Life
  • blocky digital font
  • heart above MCR
  • left side has heart
  • right side no heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708181138241847956868
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
250 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/376b789fe1cdc5ad3eb8b0f88f3af593c6a7e18552dd1328ce343c235a4c76be.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
376b789fe1cdc5ad
SHA-256
376b789fe1cdc5ad3eb8b0f88f3af593c6a7e18552dd1328ce343c235a4c76be
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'MCR Saved My Life' and a red pixelated heart symbol above 'MCR' on the left side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,931 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 738

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  • black
  • white
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  • text arranged in four lines
  • heart positioned above 'MCR' on left
  • symmetrical layout with left heart
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in four lines: 'MCR' at top, 'Saved' below it, 'My' below 'Saved', and 'Life' at bottom. A red pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the 'MCR' text on the left side. The right side of the image mirrors the left with identical white pixelated text and no heart symbol. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The heart symbol is composed of red pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading 'MCR Saved My Life' and a red pixelated heart symbol above 'MCR' on the left side.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

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  • pixel art text heart
  • white text red heart black background
  • MCR Saved My Life pixel art
  • heart above MCR text
  • text heart symbol
  • black background white text red heart
  • MCR Saved My Life heart symbol

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  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

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  • MCR
  • Saved
  • My
  • Life

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red pixelated heart
  • MCR Saved My Life
  • blocky digital font
  • heart above MCR
  • left side has heart
  • right side no heart
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:04 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708181138241847956868
Archive entry
200708181138241847956868.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708181138241847956868.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708181138241847956868.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016