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Red background with black pixelated text reading "CHAEI & A" and "ALWAYS" on both sides, a white heart symbol overlays the 'A' in "A".

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Red background with black pixelated text reading "CHAEI & A" and "ALWAYS" on both sides, a white heart symbol overlays the 'A' in "A".

Red background with black pixelated text reading "CHAEI & A" and "ALWAYS" on both sides, a white heart symbol overlays the 'A' in "A". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in frame 0

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in frame 0.

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • centered heart symbol

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two identical horizontal lines of black pixelated text: left line reads "CHAEI & A" above "ALWAYS", right line reads "MICHAEL & A" above "ALWAYS". White heart-shaped pixel symbol overlays the 'A' in both "A" and "MICHAEL" on the right side, positioned slightly above the horizontal center of the text lines.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading "CHAEI & A" and "ALWAYS" on both sides, a white heart symbol overlays the 'A' in "A".

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081230193554861478168

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art
  • CHAEI & A text
  • MICHAEL & A text
  • ALWAYS text
  • heart overlay

Visible Text

  • CHAEI & A
  • ALWAYS
  • MICHAEL & A

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white heart symbol
  • text: CHAEI & A
  • text: MICHAEL & A
  • text: ALWAYS
  • two identical text lines
  • heart overlays 'A'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081230193554861478168
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
253 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
7e36a633a023904a
SHA-256
7e36a633a023904a2feeb250d071dbe1dfa7bffdfb4445a22f9e15e06e45087a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:17 UTC
Run
1085
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113038

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Red background with black pixelated text reading "CHAEI & A" and "ALWAYS" on both sides, a white heart symbol overlays the 'A' in "A".

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,477 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 655

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol appears in frame 0 (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in frame 0

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in frame 0.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • centered heart symbol

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two identical horizontal lines of black pixelated text: left line reads "CHAEI & A" above "ALWAYS", right line reads "MICHAEL & A" above "ALWAYS". White heart-shaped pixel symbol overlays the 'A' in both "A" and "MICHAEL" on the right side, positioned slightly above the horizontal center of the text lines.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading "CHAEI & A" and "ALWAYS" on both sides, a white heart symbol overlays the 'A' in "A".

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081230193554861478168

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art
  • CHAEI & A text
  • MICHAEL & A text
  • ALWAYS text
  • heart overlay

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • CHAEI & A
  • ALWAYS
  • MICHAEL & A

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • white heart symbol
  • text: CHAEI & A
  • text: MICHAEL & A
  • text: ALWAYS
  • two identical text lines
  • heart overlays 'A'
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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
20081230193554861478168
Archive entry
20081230193554861478168.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081230193554861478168.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081230193554861478168.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016