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Pixelated red circles on black background with white text reading Hot, H, Cold in multiple positions.

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Pixelated red circles on black background with white text reading Hot, H, Cold in multiple positions.

Pixelated red circles on black background with white text reading Hot, H, Cold in multiple positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • text in vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered red circles of varying sizes and shades of red. White text appears in multiple positions: 'Hot' at the top, 'H' in the middle, and 'Cold' at the bottom. Some circles are solid red, others are split into two shades of red. The text and circles are pixelated. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated red circles on black background with white text reading Hot, H, Cold in multiple positions.

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

  • hot h cold red circles
  • pixelated red circles black background
  • hot h cold text circles
  • red circles white text black background

Visible Text

  • Hot
  • H
  • Cold

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red circles
  • various sizes
  • white text
  • Hot
  • H
  • Cold
  • pixelated
  • split circles
  • multiple positions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081220112000152267153
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/412463979f7d7f863aa02fe7b21c43a7907d19021cd66ebcbfbd6a5f09cd6afe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
412463979f7d7f86
SHA-256
412463979f7d7f863aa02fe7b21c43a7907d19021cd66ebcbfbd6a5f09cd6afe
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 11:44 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010182

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red circles on black background with white text reading Hot, H, Cold in multiple positions.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,994 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 611

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red circles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • text in vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered red circles of varying sizes and shades of red. White text appears in multiple positions: 'Hot' at the top, 'H' in the middle, and 'Cold' at the bottom. Some circles are solid red, others are split into two shades of red. The text and circles are pixelated. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated red circles on black background with white text reading Hot, H, Cold in multiple positions.

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

  • hot h cold red circles
  • pixelated red circles black background
  • hot h cold text circles
  • red circles white text black background

Objects

  • red circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Hot
  • H
  • Cold

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red circles
  • various sizes
  • white text
  • Hot
  • H
  • Cold
  • pixelated
  • split circles
  • multiple positions
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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
20081220112000152267153
Archive entry
20081220112000152267153.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081220112000152267153.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081220112000152267153.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016