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Pixelated heart shapes in purple, yellow, and blue on a dark gray background with partial light blue text.

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Pixelated heart shapes in purple, yellow, and blue on a dark gray background with partial light blue text.

Pixelated heart shapes in purple, yellow, and blue on a dark gray background with partial light blue text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating heart pattern
  • text fragments at top and middle

Dense Caption

Dark gray pixelated background features repeating heart-shaped outlines: solid purple hearts (two styles), hollow yellow hearts (two styles), and small blue hearts. Light blue text fragments read "someone, back they" at top and "ot they ne" below; both are partially obscured. Pixelation creates a retro digital aesthetic with visible dithering patterns.

Description

  • Pixelated heart shapes in purple, yellow, and blue on a dark gray background with partial light blue text.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080101102257302245888

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated hearts dark gray background
  • light blue text fragments purple yellow blue hearts
  • repeating heart pattern retro digital aesthetic

Visible Text

  • someone, back they
  • ot they ne

Wordwall

  • purple heart outlines
  • yellow heart outlines
  • blue heart shapes
  • dark gray background
  • light blue text fragments
  • pixelated rendering
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080101102257302245888
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
864524896c6adcbf
SHA-256
864524896c6adcbf05652a4a9bd14bafe8808065ac0e3b51d12517473ec3489d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117389

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated heart shapes in purple, yellow, and blue on a dark gray background with partial light blue text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:38 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,075 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 618

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • blue
  • dark gray
  • light blue

Composition

  • repeating heart pattern
  • text fragments at top and middle

Dense Caption

Dark gray pixelated background features repeating heart-shaped outlines: solid purple hearts (two styles), hollow yellow hearts (two styles), and small blue hearts. Light blue text fragments read "someone, back they" at top and "ot they ne" below; both are partially obscured. Pixelation creates a retro digital aesthetic with visible dithering patterns.

Description

  • Pixelated heart shapes in purple, yellow, and blue on a dark gray background with partial light blue text.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080101102257302245888

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated hearts dark gray background
  • light blue text fragments purple yellow blue hearts
  • repeating heart pattern retro digital aesthetic

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • someone, back they
  • ot they ne

Wordwall

  • purple heart outlines
  • yellow heart outlines
  • blue heart shapes
  • dark gray background
  • light blue text fragments
  • pixelated rendering
  • repeating 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
20080101102257302245888
Archive entry
20080101102257302245888.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20080101102257302245888.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080101102257302245888.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016