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Red background with black pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the right side of the text.

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Red background with black pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the right side of the text.

Red background with black pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the right side of the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes between observations

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart above right text

Dense Caption

The image shows a red background. On it, there is black pixelated text arranged in three lines: 'mghg|', 'kty9', and 'sobrg'. Above the top-right portion of this text, there is a white heart symbol made of pixels. The left side of the image has the same text as the right side but without the heart symbol.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the right side of the 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071109204144773193321

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art heart text
  • mghg| kty9 sobrg red white black
  • heart symbol above text pixelated
  • static image with two versions of text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • mghg|
  • kty9
  • sobrg

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white heart symbol
  • three lines of text
  • text: mghg| kty9 sobrg

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071109204144773193321
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
961 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/59/59e9b9f3ce883cc0406fddf221779c7fda7473f56e7813e2c3da6a2e915c87d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
59e9b9f3ce883cc0
SHA-256
59e9b9f3ce883cc0406fddf221779c7fda7473f56e7813e2c3da6a2e915c87d0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099439

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with black pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the right side of the text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,850 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 660

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text lines (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes between observations

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart above right text

Dense Caption

The image shows a red background. On it, there is black pixelated text arranged in three lines: 'mghg|', 'kty9', and 'sobrg'. Above the top-right portion of this text, there is a white heart symbol made of pixels. The left side of the image has the same text as the right side but without the heart symbol.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the right side of the 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071109204144773193321

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art heart text
  • mghg| kty9 sobrg red white black
  • heart symbol above text pixelated
  • static image with two versions of text

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text lines

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • pixelated text

Visible Text

  • mghg|
  • kty9
  • sobrg

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white heart symbol
  • three lines of text
  • text: mghg| kty9 sobrg
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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
20071109204144773193321
Archive entry
20071109204144773193321.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071109204144773193321.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071109204144773193321.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016