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Black background with white pixelated text and grayscale heart-shaped border elements, gray rectangular overlay on right side.

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Black background with white pixelated text and grayscale heart-shaped border elements, gray rectangular overlay on right side.

Black background with white pixelated text and grayscale heart-shaped border elements, gray rectangular overlay on right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text blocks top-left, top-right, center-left
  • heart border top-left
  • gray overlay bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "Hearts are only Black" top-left, "Cuz they're EMPTY" top-right, and "Fill em U P" center-left. Grayscale heart-shaped border elements with swirls frame the top and left edges. Gray rectangular overlay covers the bottom-right quadrant. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and grayscale heart-shaped border elements, gray rectangular overlay on right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070903115655298689370
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hearts empty black text
  • fill em up pixel art
  • grayscale heart border
  • gray overlay text

Visible Text

  • Hearts are only Black
  • Cuz they're EMPTY
  • Fill em U P

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • grayscale heart border
  • gray overlay
  • retro digital font
  • text: Hearts are only Black
  • text: Cuz they're EMPTY
  • text: Fill em U P
  • heart-shaped border elements
  • swirls on border

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070903115655298689370
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/695e23695224c8ff14ea3a91e4de8e630c966f68bba9a7586f9159a387e67d28.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
695e23695224c8ff
SHA-256
695e23695224c8ff14ea3a91e4de8e630c966f68bba9a7586f9159a387e67d28
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080963

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text and grayscale heart-shaped border elements, gray rectangular overlay on right side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,470 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 720

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text blocks top-left, top-right, center-left
  • heart border top-left
  • gray overlay bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading "Hearts are only Black" top-left, "Cuz they're EMPTY" top-right, and "Fill em U P" center-left. Grayscale heart-shaped border elements with swirls frame the top and left edges. Gray rectangular overlay covers the bottom-right quadrant. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and grayscale heart-shaped border elements, gray rectangular overlay on right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070903115655298689370
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

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  • surreal
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hearts empty black text
  • fill em up pixel art
  • grayscale heart border
  • gray overlay text

Objects

  • hearts
  • text
  • overlay

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • text-based

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text
  • overlay

Visible Text

  • Hearts are only Black
  • Cuz they're EMPTY
  • Fill em U P

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • grayscale heart border
  • gray overlay
  • retro digital font
  • text: Hearts are only Black
  • text: Cuz they're EMPTY
  • text: Fill em U P
  • heart-shaped border elements
  • swirls on border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:04 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070903115655298689370
Archive entry
20070903115655298689370.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070903115655298689370.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070903115655298689370.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016