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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above text

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two vertical text
  • identical left-right layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Top center: heart symbol formed by white pixels. Below, two identical vertical columns of text: first line 'AR', second line 'MC.', third line 'AAP', fourth line '<333'. All text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky pixel art style. The heart symbol is positioned above the text columns. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart symbol text
  • AR MC. AAP <333
  • pixelated white text black background
  • two identical text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above text columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: heart symbol text columns

Visible Text

  • AR
  • MC.
  • AAP
  • <333

Wordwall

  • heart symbol
  • AR
  • MC.
  • AAP
  • <333
  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • two
  • identical text
  • low-resolution
  • blocky art
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902261722201099983914
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
846 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5a/5ae80fab3bb8d6fb08a50a69e9bda36efe8ed56b2ae4229bb8752a0dcbb8fe74.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
5ae80fab3bb8d6fb
SHA-256
5ae80fab3bb8d6fb08a50a69e9bda36efe8ed56b2ae4229bb8752a0dcbb8fe74
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083413

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above text

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,802 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 583

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two vertical text
  • identical left-right layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text and symbols. Top center: heart symbol formed by white pixels. Below, two identical vertical columns of text: first line 'AR', second line 'MC.', third line 'AAP', fourth line '<333'. All text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky pixel art style. The heart symbol is positioned above the text columns. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart symbol text
  • AR MC. AAP <333
  • pixelated white text black background
  • two identical text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated white text and symbols on black background, with heart symbol above text columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: heart symbol text columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • AR
  • MC.
  • AAP
  • <333

Wordwall

  • heart symbol
  • AR
  • MC.
  • AAP
  • <333
  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • two
  • identical text
  • low-resolution
  • blocky art
  • static image
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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
200902261722201099983914
Archive entry
200902261722201099983914.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902261722201099983914.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902261722201099983914.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016