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Pixelated text and a cyan heart symbol on a black background, with pink text reading 'be yourself its cooler' in a

Pixelated text and a cyan heart symbol on a black background, with pink text reading 'be yourself its cooler' in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • centered layout
  • symmetrical right-left

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated text in bright pink and cyan. Top-left corner displays 'be' in pink, followed by a cyan heart symbol. Below this, 'yourself' in pink spans two rows. Centered below 'yourself' is 'its' in pink, followed by 'cooler' in pink. The right side mirrors the left with identical pink text layout. All text uses a blocky, retro pixel font. No visible animation or motion changes. The cyan heart symbol is the only non-text element.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a cyan heart symbol on a black background, with pink text reading 'be yourself its cooler' in a

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

  • be yourself its cooler
  • cyan heart pixel art
  • pink pixel text
  • retro pixel
  • black background pixel art
  • blocky text heart
  • encouraging pixel art
  • symmetrical pixel text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and a cyan heart symbol on a black background, with pink text reading 'be yourself its cooler' in a grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: retro pixel grid

Visible Text

  • be
  • yourself
  • its
  • cooler

Wordwall

  • cyan heart symbol
  • black background
  • pink pixelated text
  • be yourself its cooler
  • retro pixel font
  • blocky text
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901291250111728305592
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
256 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/50/503086a50ac56827c04716147b30775e5d51ac22c5aa2c2a609bc29d0dae492e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
503086a50ac56827
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 05:37 UTC
Run
1290
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000510

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July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
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1034
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Pixelated text and a cyan heart symbol on a black background, with pink text reading 'be yourself its cooler' in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,688 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 652

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • encouraging (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • text
  • centered layout
  • symmetrical right-left

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated text in bright pink and cyan. Top-left corner displays 'be' in pink, followed by a cyan heart symbol. Below this, 'yourself' in pink spans two rows. Centered below 'yourself' is 'its' in pink, followed by 'cooler' in pink. The right side mirrors the left with identical pink text layout. All text uses a blocky, retro pixel font. No visible animation or motion changes. The cyan heart symbol is the only non-text element.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a cyan heart symbol on a black background, with pink text reading 'be yourself its cooler' in a

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

Mood

  • positive
  • encouraging

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be yourself its cooler
  • cyan heart pixel art
  • pink pixel text
  • retro pixel
  • black background pixel art
  • blocky text heart
  • encouraging pixel art
  • symmetrical pixel text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: retro pixel grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • be
  • yourself
  • its
  • cooler

Wordwall

  • cyan heart symbol
  • black background
  • pink pixelated text
  • be yourself its cooler
  • retro pixel font
  • blocky text
  • no animation
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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
200901291250111728305592
Archive entry
200901291250111728305592.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901291250111728305592.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901291250111728305592.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016