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Four red-outlined squares each contain the word 'mickey' in red pixelated text; one square has a small red heart, another a small red starburst symbol.

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Four red-outlined squares each contain the word 'mickey' in red pixelated text; one square has a small red heart, another a small red starburst symbol.

Four red-outlined squares each contain the word 'mickey' in red pixelated text; one square has a small red heart, another a small red starburst symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in top-right square
  • starburst symbol replaces heart in bottom-right square

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in top-right square; starburst replaces heart in bottom-right square.

Composition

  • squares
  • centered text in each square
  • symbols at bottom-right corners of two squares

Dense Caption

Red-outlined white squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square contains centered red pixelated lowercase text reading 'mickey'. Top-right square includes a small solid red heart at bottom-right corner. Bottom-right square includes a small solid red four-pointed starburst at bottom-right corner. All other squares have no additional symbols or decorations.

Description

Four red-outlined squares each contain the word 'mickey' in red pixelated text; one square has a small red heart, another a small red starburst symbol.

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
  • 20080204152229100324295
  • FranksIcons
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Named Entities

  • mickey

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red 'mickey' text squares
  • heart and starburst mickey icons
  • pixelated mickey with symbols
  • red text icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of squares
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid red text icons

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • mickey

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'mickey'

Wordwall

  • red-outlined white squares
  • centered pixelated lowercase text
  • 'mickey' in all squares
  • small red heart symbol
  • small red starburst symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080204152229100324295
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
832 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47dc856d46ae2f624ee98274c911d9ca10feb56557402d08a8c0cde9fa7517b6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
47dc856d46ae2f62
SHA-256
47dc856d46ae2f624ee98274c911d9ca10feb56557402d08a8c0cde9fa7517b6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083580

OpenAI category scores

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Four red-outlined squares each contain the word 'mickey' in red pixelated text; one square has a small red heart, another a small red starburst symbol.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,925 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 715

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red outlined white square (object, 0.80)
  • red pixelated text (object, 0.80)
  • solid red four pointed starburst (object, 0.80)
  • solid red heart (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text mickey (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in top-right square
  • starburst symbol replaces heart in bottom-right square

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in top-right square; starburst replaces heart in bottom-right square.

Colors

  • white
  • red

Composition

  • squares
  • centered text in each square
  • symbols at bottom-right corners of two squares

Dense Caption

Red-outlined white squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square contains centered red pixelated lowercase text reading 'mickey'. Top-right square includes a small solid red heart at bottom-right corner. Bottom-right square includes a small solid red four-pointed starburst at bottom-right corner. All other squares have no additional symbols or decorations.

Description

Four red-outlined squares each contain the word 'mickey' in red pixelated text; one square has a small red heart, another a small red starburst symbol.

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
  • 20080204152229100324295
  • FranksIcons
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Named Entities

  • mickey

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red 'mickey' text squares
  • heart and starburst mickey icons
  • pixelated mickey with symbols
  • red text icons

Objects

  • red-outlined white square
  • red pixelated text
  • solid red heart
  • solid red four-pointed starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of squares
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid red text icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text 'mickey'
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol

Visible Text

  • mickey

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'mickey'

Wordwall

  • red-outlined white squares
  • centered pixelated lowercase text
  • 'mickey' in all squares
  • small red heart symbol
  • small red starburst symbol
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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
20080204152229100324295
Archive entry
20080204152229100324295.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080204152229100324295.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080204152229100324295.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016