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A pixelated heart-shaped icon with gradient pink and purple hues, surrounded by a white glowing outline against a dark background.

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A pixelated heart-shaped icon with gradient pink and purple hues, surrounded by a white glowing outline against a dark background.

A pixelated heart-shaped icon with gradient pink and purple hues, surrounded by a white glowing outline against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-…

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About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central heart
  • symmetrical
  • glow outline
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon is a heart shape composed of pixelated squares in varying shades of pink and purple, with darker purple in the center and lighter pink toward the edges. It has a white glowing outline that creates a soft halo effect. The background is dark, transitioning from deep purple at the top to black at the bottom. The heart's lower point extends into a small white tail. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated heart-shaped icon with gradient pink and purple hues, surrounded by a white glowing outline against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-info
  • 16492
  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart pixel art
  • pink purple heart
  • glow outline heart
  • retro digital heart
  • pixelated heart icon
  • dark background heart
  • white tail heart
  • low resolution heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Subjects

  • heart

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • pixelated
  • pink and purple gradient
  • white glowing outline
  • dark background
  • retro digital
  • low resolution
  • glow effect
  • central purple
  • edge pink
  • small tail

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
16492
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:28 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/397110416390c6ebbad1d9f9d2b1a1689643de9f34d7f40e0d07c344f423ac0b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 20:28 UTC
Archive ID
397110416390c6eb
SHA-256
397110416390c6ebbad1d9f9d2b1a1689643de9f34d7f40e0d07c344f423ac0b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117481

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.882519onnx/unsafe0.117481onnx/nsfw0.080862onnx/nsfl0.036619
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated heart-shaped icon with gradient pink and purple hues, surrounded by a white glowing outline against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,327 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 707

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • glow effect (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • purple
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central heart
  • symmetrical
  • glow outline
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon is a heart shape composed of pixelated squares in varying shades of pink and purple, with darker purple in the center and lighter pink toward the edges. It has a white glowing outline that creates a soft halo effect. The background is dark, transitioning from deep purple at the top to black at the bottom. The heart's lower point extends into a small white tail. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated heart-shaped icon with gradient pink and purple hues, surrounded by a white glowing outline against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-info
  • 16492
  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart pixel art
  • pink purple heart
  • glow outline heart
  • retro digital heart
  • pixelated heart icon
  • dark background heart
  • white tail heart
  • low resolution heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • glow effect

Subjects

  • heart

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • pixelated
  • pink and purple gradient
  • white glowing outline
  • dark background
  • retro digital
  • low resolution
  • glow effect
  • central purple
  • edge pink
  • small tail
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 03:52 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
16492
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:28 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/16492.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060614130658id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info:80/img/icon/16492.gif