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Red background with black pixelated text and symbols; two side-by-side versions of the same text layout differ in the top-right symbol.

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Red background with black pixelated text and symbols; two side-by-side versions of the same text layout differ in the top-right symbol.

Red background with black pixelated text and symbols; two side-by-side versions of the same text layout differ in the top-right symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left version has heart symbol
  • right version has 3 symbol

Animation Summary

  • Two versions of the same text layout differ only in the top-right symbol: left has a heart, right has a '3'.

Composition

  • vertical text
  • two side-by-side versions
  • symbol substitution

Dense Caption

Red background. Black pixelated text: 'chriss(3' followed by a symbol, '11-9-08', 'always', '+', 'forever'. Left version has a pixelated heart symbol; right version has a pixelated '3' symbol. Text is arranged in vertical columns. All text and symbols are black on red. The heart symbol is positioned to the right of 'chriss(3' in the left version. The '3' symbol is positioned to the right of 'chriss(3' in the right version. Both versions share identical text and layout except for the top-right symbol.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text and symbols; two side-by-side versions of the same text layout differ in the top-right 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chriss(3 11-9-08 always forever
  • heart symbol 3 symbol
  • red background black text
  • two versions identical text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Visible Text

  • chriss(3
  • 11-9-08
  • always
  • +
  • forever

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • chriss(3
  • 11-9-08
  • always
  • +
  • forever
  • heart symbol
  • 3 symbol
  • vertical text layout
  • two versions
  • left version heart
  • right version 3
  • identical text
  • symbol difference

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812060829182011240753
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
289 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/48306ca6b0e48cb7c45f5a675d0590f270d847c318b99ba67da4c3d0d5436f4c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
48306ca6b0e48cb7
SHA-256
48306ca6b0e48cb7c45f5a675d0590f270d847c318b99ba67da4c3d0d5436f4c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110792

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with black pixelated text and symbols; two side-by-side versions of the same text layout differ in the top-right symbol.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,707 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 777

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • left version has heart symbol (other, 0.80)
  • right version has 3 symbol (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left version has heart symbol
  • right version has 3 symbol

Animation Summary

  • Two versions of the same text layout differ only in the top-right symbol: left has a heart, right has a '3'.

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • vertical text
  • two side-by-side versions
  • symbol substitution

Dense Caption

Red background. Black pixelated text: 'chriss(3' followed by a symbol, '11-9-08', 'always', '+', 'forever'. Left version has a pixelated heart symbol; right version has a pixelated '3' symbol. Text is arranged in vertical columns. All text and symbols are black on red. The heart symbol is positioned to the right of 'chriss(3' in the left version. The '3' symbol is positioned to the right of 'chriss(3' in the right version. Both versions share identical text and layout except for the top-right symbol.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text and symbols; two side-by-side versions of the same text layout differ in the top-right 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chriss(3 11-9-08 always forever
  • heart symbol 3 symbol
  • red background black text
  • two versions identical text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • chriss(3
  • 11-9-08
  • always
  • +
  • forever

Wordwall

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  • black pixelated text
  • chriss(3
  • 11-9-08
  • always
  • +
  • forever
  • heart symbol
  • 3 symbol
  • vertical text layout
  • two versions
  • left version heart
  • right version 3
  • identical text
  • symbol difference
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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
200812060829182011240753
Archive entry
200812060829182011240753.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812060829182011240753.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812060829182011240753.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016