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A pixelated text-based image shows 'A girl asked a boy ...' with a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl' on the left side.

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A pixelated text-based image shows 'A girl asked a boy ...' with a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl' on the left side.

A pixelated text-based image shows 'A girl asked a boy ...' with a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl' on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • centered text
  • heart symbol replaces letter

Dense Caption

The image displays two side-by-side pixelated text panels on a black background. Both panels contain the text 'A girl asked a boy ...' in light beige pixelated font. The left panel has a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl', while the right panel shows the standard letter 'i'. The heart symbol is composed of solid pink pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. The background is solid black with no additional elements.

Description

  • A pixelated text-based image shows 'A girl asked a boy ...' with a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl' on the left side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart girl boy
  • heart symbol replaces i in girl
  • two side-by-side text
  • retro digital font black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two side-by-side text panels

Visible Text

  • A girl asked a boy ...

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • light beige font
  • pink heart symbol
  • replaces 'i' in 'girl'
  • two side-by-side
  • retro digital font
  • solid black background
  • text reads 'A girl asked a boy ...'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806121745311618016361
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
251 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a0266aac8d19ef82ecf49b7f35af8474b8602dece5731d8acd749c7cc4c5826.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
8a0266aac8d19ef8
SHA-256
8a0266aac8d19ef82ecf49b7f35af8474b8602dece5731d8acd749c7cc4c5826
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Run
1031
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085445

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated text-based image shows 'A girl asked a boy ...' with a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl' on the left side.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,873 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 699

Review tags

  • asked (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • boy (subject, 0.80)
  • girl (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • asked

Colors

  • black
  • light beige
  • pink

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • centered text
  • heart symbol replaces letter

Dense Caption

The image displays two side-by-side pixelated text panels on a black background. Both panels contain the text 'A girl asked a boy ...' in light beige pixelated font. The left panel has a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl', while the right panel shows the standard letter 'i'. The heart symbol is composed of solid pink pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. The background is solid black with no additional elements.

Description

  • A pixelated text-based image shows 'A girl asked a boy ...' with a pink heart symbol replacing the 'i' in 'girl' on the left side.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart girl boy
  • heart symbol replaces i in girl
  • two side-by-side text
  • retro digital font black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two side-by-side text panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • text-based

Subjects

  • girl
  • boy

Visible Text

  • A girl asked a boy ...

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • light beige font
  • pink heart symbol
  • replaces 'i' in 'girl'
  • two side-by-side
  • retro digital font
  • solid black background
  • text reads 'A girl asked a boy ...'
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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
200806121745311618016361
Archive entry
200806121745311618016361.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806121745311618016361.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806121745311618016361.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016