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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with date ranges, heart symbol, and repeated phrases.

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with date ranges, heart symbol, and repeated phrases.

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with date ranges, heart symbol, and repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text-based
  • centered
  • like

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text. Top row left: '17-19' above a heart symbol; top row right: '17-19'. Middle row left: '15-06'; middle row right: '15-06'. Below: 'those r thethose r the' on first line, 'dates whenjdates when' on second line, 'i let go =(' on third line. All text is blocky, low-resolution pixel art. No animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with date ranges, heart symbol, and repeated phrases.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 17-19 15-06
  • heart symbol dates when
  • those r the i let go
  • pixel art black white
  • blocky font low-resolution
  • 17-19 15-06 heart
  • dates whenj i let go
  • text-based -like

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based grid-like

Visible Text

  • 17-19
  • 15-06
  • those r the
  • dates whenj
  • i let go =(

Wordwall

  • 17-19
  • 15-06
  • heart symbol
  • those r the
  • dates whenj
  • i let go =(
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708200711281086291499
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
296 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/487bcb65d97a21806e766dee0de21c654c25b198d23439f0b11f2224969375c6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
487bcb65d97a2180
SHA-256
487bcb65d97a21806e766dee0de21c654c25b198d23439f0b11f2224969375c6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079917

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with date ranges, heart symbol, and repeated phrases.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,063 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 682

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

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  • text-based
  • centered
  • like

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text. Top row left: '17-19' above a heart symbol; top row right: '17-19'. Middle row left: '15-06'; middle row right: '15-06'. Below: 'those r thethose r the' on first line, 'dates whenjdates when' on second line, 'i let go =(' on third line. All text is blocky, low-resolution pixel art. No animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with date ranges, heart symbol, and repeated phrases.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 17-19 15-06
  • heart symbol dates when
  • those r the i let go
  • pixel art black white
  • blocky font low-resolution
  • 17-19 15-06 heart
  • dates whenj i let go
  • text-based -like

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: text-based grid-like

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
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Visible Text

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  • 15-06
  • those r the
  • dates whenj
  • i let go =(

Wordwall

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  • 15-06
  • heart symbol
  • those r the
  • dates whenj
  • i let go =(
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:17 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708200711281086291499
Archive entry
200708200711281086291499.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708200711281086291499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708200711281086291499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016