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A black background displays red text and emoticons with a pink heart symbol in the center.

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A black background displays red text and emoticons with a pink heart symbol in the center.

A black background displays red text and emoticons with a pink heart symbol in the center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text layout

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: two '=)' emoticons at top left, one '=)' emoticon at top right, lowercase 'i' below each set of emoticons, 'love' below 'i', 'shannon' below 'love'. Two '=)' emoticons at bottom center. A pink heart symbol is positioned between the top-left and top-right '=)' emoticons. All text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style.

Description

  • A black background displays red text and emoticons with a pink heart symbol in the center.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • shannon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shannon love heart
  • red text pink heart
  • =) emoticon shannon
  • pixelated black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • =)
  • =
  • i
  • love
  • shannon

Visually Supported Entities

  • shannon

Wordwall

  • black background
  • =) emoticon
  • pink heart symbol
  • red pixelated text
  • i lowercase
  • love word
  • shannon name

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810041207231980675720
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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
icons/87/8786410e866448b8022642dc4555c27e82ec333d20a17769abbd299059ad36de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
8786410e866448b8
SHA-256
8786410e866448b8022642dc4555c27e82ec333d20a17769abbd299059ad36de
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085026

OpenAI category scores

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A black background displays red text and emoticons with a pink heart symbol in the center.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,560 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 598

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • emoticons (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text layout

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: two '=)' emoticons at top left, one '=)' emoticon at top right, lowercase 'i' below each set of emoticons, 'love' below 'i', 'shannon' below 'love'. Two '=)' emoticons at bottom center. A pink heart symbol is positioned between the top-left and top-right '=)' emoticons. All text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style.

Description

  • A black background displays red text and emoticons with a pink heart symbol in the center.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • shannon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shannon love heart
  • red text pink heart
  • =) emoticon shannon
  • pixelated black background

Objects

  • emoticons
  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • =)
  • =
  • i
  • love
  • shannon

Visually Supported Entities

  • shannon

Wordwall

  • black background
  • =) emoticon
  • pink heart symbol
  • red pixelated text
  • i lowercase
  • love word
  • shannon name
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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
200810041207231980675720
Archive entry
200810041207231980675720.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810041207231980675720.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810041207231980675720.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016