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Pixelated image split into two sections: left shows 'love' with a heart replacing the 'o', right displays 'CHAR CHAR' in pink text on blue background.

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Pixelated image split into two sections: left shows 'love' with a heart replacing the 'o', right displays 'CHAR CHAR' in pink text on blue background.

Pixelated image split into two sections: left shows 'love' with a heart replacing the 'o', right displays 'CHAR CHAR' in pink text on blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical two-section layout
  • left text/heart on sky-ground background
  • right text on solid color background

Dense Caption

Left section features light blue sky with white cloud, green ground; black cursive 'love' where 'o' is replaced by solid pink heart. Right section has bright cyan background with two lines of pixelated pink uppercase text: 'CHAR' above 'CHAR'. All elements are low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

Pixelated image split into two sections: left shows 'love' with a heart replacing the 'o', right displays 'CHAR CHAR' in pink text on blue background.

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
  • 200709211826321561346002

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love heart cyan background char char
  • pixel art love pink heart sky ground
  • char char pixelated text bright cyan
  • low resolution cursive love heart

Objects

  • cloud

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • love
  • CHAR

Wordwall

  • light blue sky
  • white cloud
  • green ground
  • black cursive text
  • pink heart symbol
  • bright cyan background
  • pixelated pink text
  • 'CHAR CHAR'
  • low-resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211826321561346002
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bb7eb44e25093a08dc607db3b764c85500184c6a83176443087cd8642d4d2e2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
8bb7eb44e25093a0
SHA-256
8bb7eb44e25093a08dc607db3b764c85500184c6a83176443087cd8642d4d2e2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087341

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image split into two sections: left shows 'love' with a heart replacing the 'o', right displays 'CHAR CHAR' in pink text on blue background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:34 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,533 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 644

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cloud (object, 0.80)
  • ground (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • green
  • black
  • pink
  • bright cyan

Composition

  • split vertical two-section layout
  • left text/heart on sky-ground background
  • right text on solid color background

Dense Caption

Left section features light blue sky with white cloud, green ground; black cursive 'love' where 'o' is replaced by solid pink heart. Right section has bright cyan background with two lines of pixelated pink uppercase text: 'CHAR' above 'CHAR'. All elements are low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

Pixelated image split into two sections: left shows 'love' with a heart replacing the 'o', right displays 'CHAR CHAR' in pink text on blue background.

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
  • 200709211826321561346002

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love heart cyan background char char
  • pixel art love pink heart sky ground
  • char char pixelated text bright cyan
  • low resolution cursive love heart

Objects

  • cloud
  • ground

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • love
  • CHAR

Wordwall

  • light blue sky
  • white cloud
  • green ground
  • black cursive text
  • pink heart symbol
  • bright cyan background
  • pixelated pink text
  • 'CHAR CHAR'
  • low-resolution pixel art
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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
200709211826321561346002
Archive entry
200709211826321561346002.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709211826321561346002.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709211826321561346002.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016