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Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner

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Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner

Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • subtle pixel variations

Animation Summary

  • Subtle pixel variations in background clusters and bottom-left corner across four

Composition

  • text at top
  • symbols below text
  • four

Dense Caption

Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon. Four panels display identical text and symbols. Background has dark pixel clusters; bottom-left corner shows a faint circular shape in lower-left panels. Pixel variations include a small dark spot in the lower-left corner of the bottom-left panel and a slightly different dark cluster in the upper-left corner of the top-left panel. All panels share the same red background, white text, and emoticons.

Description

Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902271503001734129376
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background faith emoticon
  • faith <3 :) red
  • faith emoticon red background
  • red faith <3 :)

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four panels show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Subtle pixel variations in background clusters and bottom-left corner across four panels.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: subtle pixel variations across panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • FAITH
  • <3
  • :)

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text
  • FAITH
  • <3
  • :)
  • dark pixel clusters
  • faint circular shape
  • bottom-left corner
  • pixel variations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902271503001734129376
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6eccb18e5110359a32fe21c941eda5fc45f39684700eabdcb721ee63fd74f233.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
6eccb18e5110359a
SHA-256
6eccb18e5110359a32fe21c941eda5fc45f39684700eabdcb721ee63fd74f233
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082242

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,225 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 736

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle pixel variations (other, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • subtle pixel variations

Animation Summary

  • Subtle pixel variations in background clusters and bottom-left corner across four

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text at top
  • symbols below text
  • four

Dense Caption

Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon. Four panels display identical text and symbols. Background has dark pixel clusters; bottom-left corner shows a faint circular shape in lower-left panels. Pixel variations include a small dark spot in the lower-left corner of the bottom-left panel and a slightly different dark cluster in the upper-left corner of the top-left panel. All panels share the same red background, white text, and emoticons.

Description

Red background with white text 'FAITH' at top, '<3' symbol, and ':)' emoticon; four show subtle pixel variations in background and bottom-left corner

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902271503001734129376
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background faith emoticon
  • faith <3 :) red
  • faith emoticon red background
  • red faith <3 :)

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
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  • quarantined animationSummary: Subtle pixel variations in background clusters and bottom-left corner across four panels.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: subtle pixel variations across panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • FAITH
  • <3
  • :)

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text
  • FAITH
  • <3
  • :)
  • dark pixel clusters
  • faint circular shape
  • bottom-left corner
  • pixel variations
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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
200902271503001734129376
Archive entry
200902271503001734129376.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902271503001734129376.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902271503001734129376.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016