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Two identical pixel art buddy icons display cyan text and pink hearts on black background, differing only in heart arrangement.

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Two identical pixel art buddy icons display cyan text and pink hearts on black background, differing only in heart arrangement.

Two identical pixel art buddy icons display cyan text and pink hearts on black background, differing only in heart arrangement. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart arrangement changes

Animation Summary

  • Heart arrangement changes between two identical icons.

Composition

  • text top
  • hearts bottom
  • two identical icons side-by-side

Dense Caption

Two identical pixel art buddy icons on black background. Top cyan text: 'I <3', 'Leah G', '+', 'Melissa P'. Bottom pink hearts: left icon has three pink hearts and one purple heart in sequence; right icon has two pink hearts, one purple heart, and two pink hearts in sequence. All text and hearts are pixelated. Cyan text is consistent across both icons. Heart arrangement differs between the two icons.

Description

  • Two identical pixel art buddy icons display cyan text and pink hearts on black background, differing only in heart arrangement.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background
  • I <3 Leah G Melissa P
  • pink purple hearts
  • heart arrangement change

Visible Text

  • I <3
  • Leah G
  • Melissa P

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated hearts
  • I <3
  • Leah G
  • Melissa P
  • pink hearts
  • purple heart
  • heart arrangement
  • two icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070727092328719882637
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
311 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
6c02ea4da4bba9a3
SHA-256
6c02ea4da4bba9a3b821741f9c537576347b8f1698f03c9a77b823654b67a4a1
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Two identical pixel art buddy icons display cyan text and pink hearts on black background, differing only in heart arrangement.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,018 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • heart arrangement changes (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart arrangement changes

Animation Summary

  • Heart arrangement changes between two identical icons.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • text top
  • hearts bottom
  • two identical icons side-by-side

Dense Caption

Two identical pixel art buddy icons on black background. Top cyan text: 'I <3', 'Leah G', '+', 'Melissa P'. Bottom pink hearts: left icon has three pink hearts and one purple heart in sequence; right icon has two pink hearts, one purple heart, and two pink hearts in sequence. All text and hearts are pixelated. Cyan text is consistent across both icons. Heart arrangement differs between the two icons.

Description

  • Two identical pixel art buddy icons display cyan text and pink hearts on black background, differing only in heart arrangement.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background
  • I <3 Leah G Melissa P
  • pink purple hearts
  • heart arrangement change

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • I <3
  • Leah G
  • Melissa P

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated hearts
  • I <3
  • Leah G
  • Melissa P
  • pink hearts
  • purple heart
  • heart arrangement
  • two icons
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:27 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070727092328719882637
Archive entry
20070727092328719882637.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070727092328719882637.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070727092328719882637.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016