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Static pixel art displays text 'My Gopher is HAWT <3' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter O in 'Gopher'.

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Static pixel art displays text 'My Gopher is HAWT <3' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter O in 'Gopher'.

Static pixel art displays text 'My Gopher is HAWT <3' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter O in 'Gopher'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text-centered
  • vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: 'My' (top), 'Gopher' (middle, first character O replaced by red heart), 'is' (below Gopher), 'HAWT <3' (bottom). Red heart symbol is solid, 5x5 pixels, positioned over the letter O in 'Gopher'. Text uses a retro digital font. The right side of the image shows identical text without the red heart.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays text 'My Gopher is HAWT <3' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter O in 'Gopher'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080501154025662026923
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gopher heart text hawt <3
  • my gopher is hawt red heart
  • pixel art my gopher is hawt

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; ignored per evidence rules.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Visible Text

  • My
  • Gopher
  • is
  • HAWT <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • gopher (symbolic)

Wordwall

  • red heart replaces O
  • text: My Gopher is HAWT <3
  • retro pixelated font
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080501154025662026923
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1004 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
5a18be75da7f0210
SHA-256
5a18be75da7f0210eac591f6d22a04fe9180e707d6c2c7f85a620c990a2b49b0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.082199

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays text 'My Gopher is HAWT <3' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter O in 'Gopher'.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 10:52 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,502 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
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  • gopher symbolic (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text-centered
  • vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: 'My' (top), 'Gopher' (middle, first character O replaced by red heart), 'is' (below Gopher), 'HAWT <3' (bottom). Red heart symbol is solid, 5x5 pixels, positioned over the letter O in 'Gopher'. Text uses a retro digital font. The right side of the image shows identical text without the red heart.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays text 'My Gopher is HAWT <3' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter O in 'Gopher'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080501154025662026923
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gopher heart text hawt <3
  • my gopher is hawt red heart
  • pixel art my gopher is hawt

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; ignored per evidence rules.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • gopher (symbolic)

Visible Text

  • My
  • Gopher
  • is
  • HAWT <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • gopher (symbolic)

Wordwall

  • red heart replaces O
  • text: My Gopher is HAWT <3
  • retro pixelated font
  • black background
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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
20080501154025662026923
Archive entry
20080501154025662026923.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080501154025662026923.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080501154025662026923.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016