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Pixelated white text on black background with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'gavs', repeated twice side-by-side.

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Pixelated white text on black background with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'gavs', repeated twice side-by-side.

Pixelated white text on black background with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'gavs', repeated twice side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Composition

  • two identical vertical side-by-side
  • text arranged in four lines per
  • centered text within each

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: left column reads "gavs" (with heart symbol for 'o'), "mine", "hands", "off"; right column identical to left but without heart symbol. Text is blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces. Both columns display same content except the heart symbol in first line of left column.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on black background with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'gavs', repeated twice side-by-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
  • 20080320024738683824603

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gavs mine hands off heart symbol
  • pixelated white text black background
  • two identical side-by-side
  • heart replaces o in gavs

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; source hints indicate animated but no animation detected in input
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: centered text within each panel
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in four lines per panel
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical panels side-by-side
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical panels side-by-side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • gavs
  • mine
  • hands
  • off

Wordwall

  • heart symbol replaces o
  • gavs mine hands off text
  • pixelated white on black
  • two identical side-by-side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080320024738683824603
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
252 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71cbe79dedc4830759c99fed886ad5e9130726f3a229aecdcd7cd5c0480974a7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
71cbe79dedc48307
SHA-256
71cbe79dedc4830759c99fed886ad5e9130726f3a229aecdcd7cd5c0480974a7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073127

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text on black background with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'gavs', repeated twice side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 714

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • static image no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two identical vertical side-by-side
  • text arranged in four lines per
  • centered text within each

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: left column reads "gavs" (with heart symbol for 'o'), "mine", "hands", "off"; right column identical to left but without heart symbol. Text is blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces. Both columns display same content except the heart symbol in first line of left column.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on black background with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'gavs', repeated twice side-by-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
  • 20080320024738683824603

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gavs mine hands off heart symbol
  • pixelated white text black background
  • two identical side-by-side
  • heart replaces o in gavs

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; source hints indicate animated but no animation detected in input
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: centered text within each panel
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in four lines per panel
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical panels side-by-side
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical panels side-by-side

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • gavs
  • mine
  • hands
  • off

Wordwall

  • heart symbol replaces o
  • gavs mine hands off text
  • pixelated white on black
  • two identical side-by-side
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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
20080320024738683824603
Archive entry
20080320024738683824603.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#20080320024738683824603.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080320024738683824603.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016