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White pixelated heart shape on black background, animated with a flickering effect.

White pixelated heart shape on black background, animated with a flickering effect. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • intermittent pixel gaps on right edge
  • flickering effect

Animation Summary

  • Heart shape flickers with intermittent pixel gaps on right edge, creating subtle pulsing effect.

Composition

  • upper-center placement
  • solid background

Dense Caption

White pixelated heart shape composed of blocky pixels on solid black background. The heart's right side displays intermittent white pixel gaps that alternate between closed and open states across frames. Heart is positioned in upper-center area of frame. Animation consists of visible pixel-level changes where the right edge flickers, creating a subtle pulsing effect.

Description

  • White pixelated heart shape on black background, animated with a flickering effect.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807122235001395152259

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated heart animation
  • white heart black background flicker
  • intermittent gap heart animation
  • upper-center pixel art heart

Subjects

  • heart shape

Wordwall

  • white
  • pixelated
  • heart
  • black background
  • flickering
  • intermittent gaps
  • upper-center
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807122235001395152259
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
157 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/648c3c2331aff92918e38107c1336776f6f02eb87034b4b71fe4006a02dba339.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
648c3c2331aff929
SHA-256
648c3c2331aff92918e38107c1336776f6f02eb87034b4b71fe4006a02dba339
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 13:25 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000030

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July 29, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
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White pixelated heart shape on black background, animated with a flickering effect.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,783 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 618

Review tags

  • flickering (action, 0.80)
  • pulsing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle (mood, 0.80)
  • flickering effect (other, 0.80)
  • intermittent pixel gaps on right edge (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flickering
  • pulsing

Animation

  • intermittent pixel gaps on right edge
  • flickering effect

Animation Summary

  • Heart shape flickers with intermittent pixel gaps on right edge, creating subtle pulsing effect.

Colors

  • white
  • black

Composition

  • upper-center placement
  • solid background

Dense Caption

White pixelated heart shape composed of blocky pixels on solid black background. The heart's right side displays intermittent white pixel gaps that alternate between closed and open states across frames. Heart is positioned in upper-center area of frame. Animation consists of visible pixel-level changes where the right edge flickers, creating a subtle pulsing effect.

Description

  • White pixelated heart shape on black background, animated with a flickering effect.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807122235001395152259

Mood

  • subtle
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated heart animation
  • white heart black background flicker
  • intermittent gap heart animation
  • upper-center pixel art heart

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart shape

Wordwall

  • white
  • pixelated
  • heart
  • black background
  • flickering
  • intermittent gaps
  • upper-center
  • blocky pixels
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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
200807122235001395152259
Archive entry
200807122235001395152259.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807122235001395152259.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807122235001395152259.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016