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*hug* text in blue pixelated font inside a pink square border on light background; one variant includes a small purple heart symbol at bottom-right corner.

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*hug* text in blue pixelated font inside a pink square border on light background; one variant includes a small purple heart symbol at bottom-right corner.

*hug* text in blue pixelated font inside a pink square border on light background; one variant includes a small purple heart symbol at bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static frame set with one variant containing a heart symbol

Animation Summary

  • Four static frames show identical *hug* text with a pink border; one frame includes an additional purple heart symbol at bottom-right.

Composition

  • centered text
  • square border

Dense Caption

Four identical static frames show *hug* text rendered in blue pixelated characters centered within a bright pink square border. The background is solid off-white. All four frames share the same core content: blue *hug* text with asterisks on both sides, enclosed by a thick pink border. One frame (bottom-right) contains an additional small purple heart symbol at its bottom-right corner; all other frames lack this symbol.

Description

*hug* text in blue pixelated font inside a pink square border on light background; one variant includes a small purple heart symbol at bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20070922141355736673733

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hug pixel art
  • *hug* blue text
  • pink border heart icon
  • pixel art hug

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • *hug*

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated *hug* text
  • pink square border
  • off-white background
  • purple heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070922141355736673733
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
312 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
678e8dfc18cd9873
SHA-256
678e8dfc18cd9873228e59bcb171617d62d545dba5533d9df37542c7c8846bcc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090027

OpenAI category scores

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*hug* text in blue pixelated font inside a pink square border on light background; one variant includes a small purple heart symbol at bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,759 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 646

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • off white (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static frame set with one variant containing a heart symbol

Animation Summary

  • Four static frames show identical *hug* text with a pink border; one frame includes an additional purple heart symbol at bottom-right.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • off-white
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • square border

Dense Caption

Four identical static frames show *hug* text rendered in blue pixelated characters centered within a bright pink square border. The background is solid off-white. All four frames share the same core content: blue *hug* text with asterisks on both sides, enclosed by a thick pink border. One frame (bottom-right) contains an additional small purple heart symbol at its bottom-right corner; all other frames lack this symbol.

Description

*hug* text in blue pixelated font inside a pink square border on light background; one variant includes a small purple heart symbol at bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20070922141355736673733

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hug pixel art
  • *hug* blue text
  • pink border heart icon
  • pixel art hug

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • *hug*

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated *hug* text
  • pink square border
  • off-white background
  • purple heart symbol
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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
20070922141355736673733
Archive entry
20070922141355736673733.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070922141355736673733.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070922141355736673733.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016