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Pixelated cyan text on black background with red heart symbol, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with red heart symbol, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Pixelated cyan text on black background with red heart symbol, showing two identical static frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • text arranged vertically
  • heart symbol at bottom right

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan pixelated text reading 'Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07' in two identical vertical columns. Each column has a red pixelated heart symbol at the bottom right of the date. The text uses a retro digital font style. The heart symbol appears in the same position in both columns. The date '8/12/07' is followed by a red heart symbol. The text 'Kara and Alex' is positioned above '(333' which is above '8/12/07'.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with red heart symbol, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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 topic-coverage: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Kara and Alex 8/12/07
  • 8/12/07 date cyan text
  • Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07
  • cyan text red heart 8/12/07
  • two Kara and Alex 8/12/07
  • Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07 red heart
  • 8/12/07 red heart cyan text
  • Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07 two

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07 two columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two columns Kara and Alex 8/12/07

Visible Text

  • Kara
  • and
  • Alex
  • (333
  • 8/12/07

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • 8/12/07 date
  • (333 text
  • Kara and Alex text
  • two identical
  • retro digital font
  • pixelated text
  • heart symbol at bottom right

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070813093934171269977
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
264 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f85145da609bb82ff78411467b86f3e2deda4a5aa2c1cf68559d0584375f244.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
4f85145da609bb82
SHA-256
4f85145da609bb82ff78411467b86f3e2deda4a5aa2c1cf68559d0584375f244
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087993

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated cyan text on black background with red heart symbol, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,038 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 838

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • text arranged vertically
  • heart symbol at bottom right

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan pixelated text reading 'Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07' in two identical vertical columns. Each column has a red pixelated heart symbol at the bottom right of the date. The text uses a retro digital font style. The heart symbol appears in the same position in both columns. The date '8/12/07' is followed by a red heart symbol. The text 'Kara and Alex' is positioned above '(333' which is above '8/12/07'.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with red heart symbol, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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 topic-coverage: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Kara and Alex 8/12/07
  • 8/12/07 date cyan text
  • Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07
  • cyan text red heart 8/12/07
  • two Kara and Alex 8/12/07
  • Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07 red heart
  • 8/12/07 red heart cyan text
  • Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07 two

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: Kara and Alex (333 8/12/07 two columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two columns Kara and Alex 8/12/07

Style

  • pixelated
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  • and
  • Alex
  • (333
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Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • 8/12/07 date
  • (333 text
  • Kara and Alex text
  • two identical
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  • pixelated text
  • heart symbol at bottom right
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:27 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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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
20070813093934171269977
Archive entry
20070813093934171269977.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070813093934171269977.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070813093934171269977.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016