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Four red heart shapes on a pink background, each containing white text reading MEG + CHS with varying pixelation levels.

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Four red heart shapes on a pink background, each containing white text reading MEG + CHS with varying pixelation levels.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • centered text within shapes

Dense Caption

Four identical red hearts arranged in a 2x2 grid on solid pink background. Each heart contains centered white pixelated text: 'MEG' above '+' symbol above 'CHS'. Top-left and bottom-right hearts show higher pixelation (blocky appearance) while top-right and bottom-left hearts display smoother, less pixelated rendering of the same text elements. All hearts maintain consistent size and position relative to each other.

Description

  • Four red heart shapes on a pink background, each containing white text reading MEG + CHS with varying pixelation levels.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hearts pink background
  • MEG plus CHS text
  • pixelated heart icons
  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid of hearts

Visible Text

  • MEG
  • +
  • CHS

Visually Supported Entities

  • MEG + CHS

Wordwall

  • red heart shapes
  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • MEG + CHS text
  • blocky rendering
  • smooth rendering
  • text centered in hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802121941211783861279
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/58/587f0c5a4a52c3c993f90934025b80eb177d1e29171dab2eab94afaf4f62e126.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
587f0c5a4a52c3c9
SHA-256
587f0c5a4a52c3c993f90934025b80eb177d1e29171dab2eab94afaf4f62e126
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078284

OpenAI category scores

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Four red heart shapes on a pink background, each containing white text reading MEG + CHS with varying pixelation levels.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 21:02 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,196 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 589

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static image no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • centered text within shapes

Dense Caption

Four identical red hearts arranged in a 2x2 grid on solid pink background. Each heart contains centered white pixelated text: 'MEG' above '+' symbol above 'CHS'. Top-left and bottom-right hearts show higher pixelation (blocky appearance) while top-right and bottom-left hearts display smoother, less pixelated rendering of the same text elements. All hearts maintain consistent size and position relative to each other.

Description

  • Four red heart shapes on a pink background, each containing white text reading MEG + CHS with varying pixelation levels.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hearts pink background
  • MEG plus CHS text
  • pixelated heart icons
  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid of hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • MEG
  • +
  • CHS

Visually Supported Entities

  • MEG + CHS

Wordwall

  • red heart shapes
  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • MEG + CHS text
  • blocky rendering
  • smooth rendering
  • text centered in hearts
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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
200802121941211783861279
Archive entry
200802121941211783861279.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802121941211783861279.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802121941211783861279.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016