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Four white heart shapes on a rainbow striped background with pixelated text inside two hearts.

Four white heart shapes on a rainbow striped background with pixelated text inside two hearts. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical stripes background
  • hearts centered in each

Dense Caption

The image shows four white heart-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid against a vertical rainbow stripe background. The top-left heart contains the black pixelated text "if a guy"; the top-right heart has "has this icon"; the bottom-left heart displays "he is GAY"; and the bottom-right heart is empty. All hearts are solid white with no internal details, set against a background of vertical stripes in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and cyan.

Description

  • Four white heart shapes on a rainbow striped background with pixelated text inside two hearts.

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
  • 200803181529101027433447
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • GAY
  • if a guy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow heart icon gay text
  • if a guy has this icon he is GAY
  • pixel art rainbow background hearts
  • four white hearts with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears static despite metadata hinting at animated
  • quarantined composition: hearts centered in each cell
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) but image shows no motion or era-specific indicators beyond pixel style

Subjects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • if a guy
  • has this icon
  • he is GAY

Visually Supported Entities

  • GAY (text)
  • if a guy (text)

Wordwall

  • white hearts
  • rainbow striped background
  • pixelated text
  • four icons
  • top-left: if a guy
  • top-right: has this icon
  • bottom-left: he is GAY
  • bottom-right empty

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803181529101027433447
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66f860d59c9eeb28fa2f6f7de58fe70206652f7fab143310bd55e614dfb714a2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
66f860d59c9eeb28
SHA-256
66f860d59c9eeb28fa2f6f7de58fe70206652f7fab143310bd55e614dfb714a2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083048

OpenAI category scores

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Four white heart shapes on a rainbow striped background with pixelated text inside two hearts.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:06 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,777 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 749

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart shapes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • vertical stripes background
  • hearts centered in each

Dense Caption

The image shows four white heart-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid against a vertical rainbow stripe background. The top-left heart contains the black pixelated text "if a guy"; the top-right heart has "has this icon"; the bottom-left heart displays "he is GAY"; and the bottom-right heart is empty. All hearts are solid white with no internal details, set against a background of vertical stripes in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and cyan.

Description

  • Four white heart shapes on a rainbow striped background with pixelated text inside two hearts.

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
  • 200803181529101027433447
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • GAY
  • if a guy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow heart icon gay text
  • if a guy has this icon he is GAY
  • pixel art rainbow background hearts
  • four white hearts with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears static despite metadata hinting at animated
  • quarantined composition: hearts centered in each cell
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007-2016) but image shows no motion or era-specific indicators beyond pixel style

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • if a guy
  • has this icon
  • he is GAY

Visually Supported Entities

  • GAY (text)
  • if a guy (text)

Wordwall

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  • rainbow striped background
  • pixelated text
  • four icons
  • top-left: if a guy
  • top-right: has this icon
  • bottom-left: he is GAY
  • bottom-right empty
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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
200803181529101027433447
Archive entry
200803181529101027433447.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803181529101027433447.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803181529101027433447.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016