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Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the 'a' in 'hint' across multiple lines of text.

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Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the 'a' in 'hint' across multiple lines of text.

Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the 'a' in 'hint' across multiple lines of text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal text lines
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in five lines. First line: 'I hint @ I hint @' with red heart symbol replacing 'a' in 'hint'. Second line: 'wat i want wat i want'. Third line: 'u 2 say sou 2 say so'. Fourth line: 'i don't havi don't hav'. Fifth line: '2 say it 4u2 say it 4u'. Text uses lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Red heart symbol is solid red, positioned over the '@' character in the first line. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel font. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the 'a' in 'hint' across multiple lines of text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • red heart replace a hint
  • text based buddy icon
  • low resolution text icon
  • 200806291611311739086450
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • aim buddy icon

Visible Text

  • I hint @ I hint @
  • wat i want wat i want
  • u 2 say sou 2 say so
  • i don't havi don't hav
  • 2 say it 4u2 say it 4u

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • text lines: 5
  • text content: 'I hint @ I hint @'
  • text content: 'wat i want wat i want'
  • text content: 'u 2 say sou 2 say so'
  • text content: 'i don't havi don't hav'
  • text content: '2 say it 4u2 say it 4u'
  • red heart replaces 'a' in 'hint'

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806291611311739086450
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
337 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/486df2f807dfdc56230bcc5ec4a19bbc5c076b4d24cbb1fd016b80783a602afc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
486df2f807dfdc56
SHA-256
486df2f807dfdc56230bcc5ec4a19bbc5c076b4d24cbb1fd016b80783a602afc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:58 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087641

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the 'a' in 'hint' across multiple lines of text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,214 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 861

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal text lines
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in five lines. First line: 'I hint @ I hint @' with red heart symbol replacing 'a' in 'hint'. Second line: 'wat i want wat i want'. Third line: 'u 2 say sou 2 say so'. Fourth line: 'i don't havi don't hav'. Fifth line: '2 say it 4u2 say it 4u'. Text uses lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Red heart symbol is solid red, positioned over the '@' character in the first line. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel font. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the 'a' in 'hint' across multiple lines of text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • red heart replace a hint
  • text based buddy icon
  • low resolution text icon
  • 200806291611311739086450
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • aim buddy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • I hint @ I hint @
  • wat i want wat i want
  • u 2 say sou 2 say so
  • i don't havi don't hav
  • 2 say it 4u2 say it 4u

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • text lines: 5
  • text content: 'I hint @ I hint @'
  • text content: 'wat i want wat i want'
  • text content: 'u 2 say sou 2 say so'
  • text content: 'i don't havi don't hav'
  • text content: '2 say it 4u2 say it 4u'
  • red heart replaces 'a' in 'hint'
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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
200806291611311739086450
Archive entry
200806291611311739086450.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806291611311739086450.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806291611311739086450.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016