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Pixelated pink gradient background with layered text and a heart symbol, featuring a handwritten-style word at the bottom.

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Pixelated pink gradient background with layered text and a heart symbol, featuring a handwritten-style word at the bottom.

Pixelated pink gradient background with layered text and a heart symbol, featuring a handwritten-style word at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text layered across upper/middle
  • heart symbol to right of bottom word
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated static icon with a pink gradient background transitioning from light pink at the bottom to darker pink at the top. Layered text in varying shades of pink appears in multiple lines across the upper and middle sections, with some text partially obscured or pixelated. At the bottom, the word "lying" is rendered in a handwritten-style font with a small red heart symbol to its right. The text and heart are in a darker pink hue than the background. The icon has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s instant messaging graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated pink gradient background with layered text and a heart symbol, featuring a handwritten-style word at the bottom.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090111103842929484547
  • 200901111039171429419501

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink gradient heart lying
  • handwritten lying heart
  • pixelated text heart
  • retro digital lying icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • possible text distortion

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Uncertain Text

  • text lines above 'lying'

Visible Text

  • lying

Wordwall

  • pink gradient background
  • pixelated text
  • handwritten-style word
  • red heart symbol
  • multiple text lines
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • light pink to dark pink gradient
  • text partially obscured
  • heart symbol to right of word

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090111103842929484547
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901111039171429419501
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/605eb49d1e9a12af8af55f8ae8c1da3ba5436f3f3e7c3239a8a0a48b51dd7322.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
605eb49d1e9a12af
SHA-256
605eb49d1e9a12af8af55f8ae8c1da3ba5436f3f3e7c3239a8a0a48b51dd7322
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 21:19 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016249

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.146788

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated pink gradient background with layered text and a heart symbol, featuring a handwritten-style word at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,556 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,136, response 820

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • handwritten style (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • red

Composition

  • text layered across upper/middle
  • heart symbol to right of bottom word
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated static icon with a pink gradient background transitioning from light pink at the bottom to darker pink at the top. Layered text in varying shades of pink appears in multiple lines across the upper and middle sections, with some text partially obscured or pixelated. At the bottom, the word "lying" is rendered in a handwritten-style font with a small red heart symbol to its right. The text and heart are in a darker pink hue than the background. The icon has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s instant messaging graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated pink gradient background with layered text and a heart symbol, featuring a handwritten-style word at the bottom.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090111103842929484547
  • 200901111039171429419501

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink gradient heart lying
  • handwritten lying heart
  • pixelated text heart
  • retro digital lying icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • possible text distortion

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • handwritten-style

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Uncertain Text

  • text lines above 'lying'

Visible Text

  • lying

Wordwall

  • pink gradient background
  • pixelated text
  • handwritten-style word
  • red heart symbol
  • multiple text lines
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • light pink to dark pink gradient
  • text partially obscured
  • heart symbol to right of word
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Full source records (2)

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
20090111103842929484547
Archive entry
20090111103842929484547.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090111103842929484547.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090111103842929484547.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200901111039171429419501
Archive entry
200901111039171429419501.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901111039171429419501.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901111039171429419501.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016