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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background, showing repeated name and date with heart symbol above.

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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background, showing repeated name and date with heart symbol above.

Red pixelated text and symbols on black background, showing repeated name and date with heart symbol above. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes observed

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • horizontal
  • centered

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text displays 'amanda<3: amanda<3' on two lines with '8/4/07' below each line. A red pixelated heart symbol appears above the text. The background is solid black. The text and heart are rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. The same visual content appears on both sides of the image. The text uses a monospaced font with consistent character spacing. The heart symbol is positioned centrally above the text block. The date '8/4/07' is displayed in the same red pixelated style as the name. The entire composition is horizontally symmetrical with identical elements on both sides of the image center.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on black background, showing repeated name and date with heart symbol above.

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

  • amanda<3 8/4/07
  • red pixelated heart
  • symmetrical text layout
  • 8/4/07 amanda<3
  • pixelated text black background
  • amanda<3 red heart
  • 8/4/07 red text
  • amanda<3 8/4/07 red

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in provided frame

Visible Text

  • amanda<3: amanda<3
  • 8/4/07

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • amanda<3
  • 8/4/07
  • monospaced font
  • symmetrical layout
  • low-resolution rendering
  • repeated text
  • blocky characters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708050601051737231976
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
882 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/718f87a19f679f8858a1ae0a304674e5ef29d37487670a8d7baff843eb61dff9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
718f87a19f679f88
SHA-256
718f87a19f679f8858a1ae0a304674e5ef29d37487670a8d7baff843eb61dff9
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Run
1351
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000882

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 02:04 UTC
Run
1254
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated text and symbols on black background, showing repeated name and date with heart symbol above.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,299 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 691

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes observed

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • horizontal
  • centered

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text displays 'amanda<3: amanda<3' on two lines with '8/4/07' below each line. A red pixelated heart symbol appears above the text. The background is solid black. The text and heart are rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. The same visual content appears on both sides of the image. The text uses a monospaced font with consistent character spacing. The heart symbol is positioned centrally above the text block. The date '8/4/07' is displayed in the same red pixelated style as the name. The entire composition is horizontally symmetrical with identical elements on both sides of the image center.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on black background, showing repeated name and date with heart symbol above.

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

  • amanda<3 8/4/07
  • red pixelated heart
  • symmetrical text layout
  • 8/4/07 amanda<3
  • pixelated text black background
  • amanda<3 red heart
  • 8/4/07 red text
  • amanda<3 8/4/07 red

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in provided frame

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • monospaced

Visible Text

  • amanda<3: amanda<3
  • 8/4/07

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
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  • 8/4/07
  • monospaced font
  • symmetrical layout
  • low-resolution rendering
  • repeated text
  • blocky characters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:26 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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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
200708050601051737231976
Archive entry
200708050601051737231976.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708050601051737231976.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708050601051737231976.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016