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Pixelated icon with bright pink background, cyan hearts, and blue text reading "ben" with heart symbols and repeated "3"s.

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Pixelated icon with bright pink background, cyan hearts, and blue text reading "ben" with heart symbols and repeated "3"s.

Pixelated icon with bright pink background, cyan hearts, and blue text reading "ben" with heart symbols and repeated "3"s. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static pixel art icon with repeated text and heart elements.

Composition

  • scattered pattern

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with cyan pixelated hearts of varying sizes. Four instances of blue pixelated text "ben" appear, each preceded by a cyan heart symbol and followed by six blue "3" characters. The text and heart elements are arranged in a scattered pattern across the icon. The icon uses a limited color palette of pink, cyan, and blue with a low-resolution pixel art style. No animation changes are visible in the provided frames.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with bright pink background, cyan hearts, and blue text reading "ben" with heart symbols and repeated "3"s.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080906134532891584966

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan hearts pink background blue text ben
  • ben text cyan heart symbols 3 characters
  • pixel art icon hearts text
  • blue text ben cyan hearts pink background
  • cyan hearts blue text ben 3s
  • ben 3s cyan hearts pink background
  • text ben cyan hearts 3s
  • blue text ben heart symbols 3s

Visible Text

  • ben
  • 3

Wordwall

  • cyan hearts
  • pink background
  • blue text
  • "ben" text
  • heart symbol
  • "3" characters
  • pixelated
  • scattered pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080906134532891584966
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7bfa0fc0f77e7cb1e40456b62418f685958ba499e3508334f7ad363f5a5a79c9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
7bfa0fc0f77e7cb1
SHA-256
7bfa0fc0f77e7cb1e40456b62418f685958ba499e3508334f7ad363f5a5a79c9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 20:30 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000814

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
1072
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated icon with bright pink background, cyan hearts, and blue text reading "ben" with heart symbols and repeated "3"s.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,657 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 659

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static pixel art icon with repeated text and heart elements.

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • blue

Composition

  • scattered pattern

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with cyan pixelated hearts of varying sizes. Four instances of blue pixelated text "ben" appear, each preceded by a cyan heart symbol and followed by six blue "3" characters. The text and heart elements are arranged in a scattered pattern across the icon. The icon uses a limited color palette of pink, cyan, and blue with a low-resolution pixel art style. No animation changes are visible in the provided frames.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with bright pink background, cyan hearts, and blue text reading "ben" with heart symbols and repeated "3"s.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080906134532891584966

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan hearts pink background blue text ben
  • ben text cyan heart symbols 3 characters
  • pixel art icon hearts text
  • blue text ben cyan hearts pink background
  • cyan hearts blue text ben 3s
  • ben 3s cyan hearts pink background
  • text ben cyan hearts 3s
  • blue text ben heart symbols 3s

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • ben
  • 3

Wordwall

  • cyan hearts
  • pink background
  • blue text
  • "ben" text
  • heart symbol
  • "3" characters
  • pixelated
  • scattered pattern
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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
20080906134532891584966
Archive entry
20080906134532891584966.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080906134532891584966.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080906134532891584966.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016