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Pixelated red text 'SCOTT<3' appears four times on a black background, with white pixelated heart and starburst icons above and below the text.

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Pixelated red text 'SCOTT<3' appears four times on a black background, with white pixelated heart and starburst icons above and below the text.

Pixelated red text 'SCOTT<3' appears four times on a black background, with white pixelated heart and starburst icons above and below the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • starburst icon alternates between solid and scattered dot patterns

Animation Summary

  • Starburst icons alternate between solid and scattered dot patterns while text and heart icon remain static.

Composition

  • text centered
  • icons positioned above and below text

Dense Caption

Black background with four instances of red pixelated text 'SCOTT<3' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top center features a white pixelated heart icon. Top right and bottom center display white pixelated starburst icons. All text and icons are rendered in 8-bit style with distinct pixelation. The heart icon is static. The starburst icons alternate between a solid white dot pattern and a scattered dot pattern across observations. Text remains consistently static in red with no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated red text 'SCOTT<3' appears four times on a black background, with white pixelated heart and starburst icons above and below the text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 8-bit style
  • 2007-2016 era (via style)
  • buddy-icon collection (via style)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SCOTT<3 pixelated text
  • red text black background
  • white heart starburst icons
  • 8-bit style animation

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era but pixels confirm 8-bit style consistent with early 2000s
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels confirm no celebrity or game references

Subjects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • SCOTT<3

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • SCOTT<3
  • black background
  • white pixelated heart
  • white pixelated starburst
  • 8-bit style
  • static text
  • alternating starburst
  • pixelated dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711241012161803417400
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
283 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3edca4245c8bcee466896e3b16677afb73e6d7bc091b8d823526b64e2ce8b058.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
3edca4245c8bcee4
SHA-256
3edca4245c8bcee466896e3b16677afb73e6d7bc091b8d823526b64e2ce8b058
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 11:02 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000888

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016004

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.016004falseself-harm0.000494falseself-harm/intent0.000218falseself-harm/instructions0.000212falsesexual0.000069falseviolence/graphic0.000033falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.710168

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.862875onnx/unsafe0.710168onnx/nsfl0.660517onnx/nsfw0.049652
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated red text 'SCOTT<3' appears four times on a black background, with white pixelated heart and starburst icons above and below the text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,055 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 740

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • heart icon (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst icon (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • starburst icon alternates between solid and scattered dot patterns

Animation

  • starburst icon alternates between solid and scattered dot patterns

Animation Summary

  • Starburst icons alternate between solid and scattered dot patterns while text and heart icon remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • text centered
  • icons positioned above and below text

Dense Caption

Black background with four instances of red pixelated text 'SCOTT<3' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top center features a white pixelated heart icon. Top right and bottom center display white pixelated starburst icons. All text and icons are rendered in 8-bit style with distinct pixelation. The heart icon is static. The starburst icons alternate between a solid white dot pattern and a scattered dot pattern across observations. Text remains consistently static in red with no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated red text 'SCOTT<3' appears four times on a black background, with white pixelated heart and starburst icons above and below the text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • 8-bit style
  • 2007-2016 era (via style)
  • buddy-icon collection (via style)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SCOTT<3 pixelated text
  • red text black background
  • white heart starburst icons
  • 8-bit style animation

Objects

  • heart icon
  • starburst icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era but pixels confirm 8-bit style consistent with early 2000s
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels confirm no celebrity or game references

Style

  • 8-bit
  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text
  • heart icon
  • starburst icon

Visible Text

  • SCOTT<3

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • SCOTT<3
  • black background
  • white pixelated heart
  • white pixelated starburst
  • 8-bit style
  • static text
  • alternating starburst
  • pixelated dots
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:18 UTC
Run
53
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 (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200711241012161803417400
Archive entry
200711241012161803417400.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711241012161803417400.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711241012161803417400.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016