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Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons with blue text on a red background, each displaying 'KIM I AM WAITING' in a retro digital style.

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Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons with blue text on a red background, each displaying 'KIM I AM WAITING' in a retro digital style.

Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons with blue text on a red background, each displaying 'KIM I AM WAITING' in a retro digital style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations display identical static content.

Composition

  • centered hearts
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid red background. Each heart is bright magenta with blue pixelated text reading 'KIM' at the top, 'I AM' in the middle, and 'WAITING' at the bottom. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The hearts have a slightly blurred or low-resolution appearance consistent with early 2000s digital graphics. All four icons display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons with blue text on a red background, each displaying 'KIM I AM WAITING' in a retro digital style.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • KIM I AM WAITING hearts
  • magenta hearts blue text
  • retro digital waiting icons
  • pixelated heart icons red background
  • blue text KIM I AM WAITING
  • four identical heart icons
  • waiting icons
  • blocky text waiting hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid waiting icons

Visible Text

  • KIM
  • I AM
  • WAITING

Wordwall

  • four identical hearts
  • red background
  • magenta hearts
  • blue text
  • KIM I AM WAITING
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital style
  • solid red background
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711251211211405403374
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/886c1c7a3965ebc4cb72e9b05767758e461e32ee68e059482030a9f62e37bd61.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
886c1c7a3965ebc4
SHA-256
886c1c7a3965ebc4cb72e9b05767758e461e32ee68e059482030a9f62e37bd61
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086346

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons with blue text on a red background, each displaying 'KIM I AM WAITING' in a retro digital style.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,242 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 741

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • waiting (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four observations display identical static content.

Colors

  • red
  • magenta
  • blue

Composition

  • centered hearts
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid red background. Each heart is bright magenta with blue pixelated text reading 'KIM' at the top, 'I AM' in the middle, and 'WAITING' at the bottom. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The hearts have a slightly blurred or low-resolution appearance consistent with early 2000s digital graphics. All four icons display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated heart-shaped icons with blue text on a red background, each displaying 'KIM I AM WAITING' in a retro digital style.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • waiting
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • KIM I AM WAITING hearts
  • magenta hearts blue text
  • retro digital waiting icons
  • pixelated heart icons red background
  • blue text KIM I AM WAITING
  • four identical heart icons
  • waiting icons
  • blocky text waiting hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid waiting icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • KIM
  • I AM
  • WAITING

Wordwall

  • four identical hearts
  • red background
  • magenta hearts
  • blue text
  • KIM I AM WAITING
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital style
  • solid red background
  • blocky text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:26 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200711251211211405403374
Archive entry
200711251211211405403374.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711251211211405403374.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711251211211405403374.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016