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A pixelated speech bubble contains the word 'hello.' in lowercase letters with a red heart symbol to the right, set against a light beige background.

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A pixelated speech bubble contains the word 'hello.' in lowercase letters with a red heart symbol to the right, set against a light beige background.

A pixelated speech bubble contains the word 'hello.' in lowercase letters with a red heart symbol to the right, set against a light beige background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • speech bubble centered
  • text left-aligned
  • heart symbol right-aligned

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated graphic of a speech bubble with a light beige background. The speech bubble outline is a thin gray line. Inside the bubble, the word 'hello.' is rendered in lowercase letters using a pixelated font with dark gray and black pixels. To the right of the text, there is a red heart symbol composed of red and dark red pixels. The heart has a small black dot at its center. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

A pixelated speech bubble contains the word 'hello.' in lowercase letters with a red heart symbol to the right, set against a light beige background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hello red heart speech bubble
  • pixelated hello text
  • beige speech bubble red heart
  • lowercase hello text red heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

Subjects

  • speech bubble
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • hello.

Wordwall

  • speech bubble
  • beige background
  • gray outline
  • hello.
  • red heart
  • pixelated font
  • lowercase letters
  • small black dot

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071123141529787378246
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7ab3ea1657f80201440c68490bd7fd04c99e817c4220927a4fbe2280e4167a72.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
7ab3ea1657f80201
SHA-256
7ab3ea1657f80201440c68490bd7fd04c99e817c4220927a4fbe2280e4167a72
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 10:44 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000006

OpenAI category scores

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075558

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924442onnx/unsafe0.075558onnx/nsfl0.038504onnx/nsfw0.037053
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated speech bubble contains the word 'hello.' in lowercase letters with a red heart symbol to the right, set against a light beige background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,894 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 737

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • welcoming (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • gray
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • speech bubble centered
  • text left-aligned
  • heart symbol right-aligned

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated graphic of a speech bubble with a light beige background. The speech bubble outline is a thin gray line. Inside the bubble, the word 'hello.' is rendered in lowercase letters using a pixelated font with dark gray and black pixels. To the right of the text, there is a red heart symbol composed of red and dark red pixels. The heart has a small black dot at its center. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

A pixelated speech bubble contains the word 'hello.' in lowercase letters with a red heart symbol to the right, set against a light beige background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • welcoming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hello red heart speech bubble
  • pixelated hello text
  • beige speech bubble red heart
  • lowercase hello text red heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • speech bubble
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • hello.

Wordwall

  • speech bubble
  • beige background
  • gray outline
  • hello.
  • red heart
  • pixelated font
  • lowercase letters
  • small black dot
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:13 UTC
Run
53
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
20071123141529787378246
Archive entry
20071123141529787378246.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071123141529787378246.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071123141529787378246.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016