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Two side-by-side heart-shaped icons with 'MGS' text, one blue on orange background and the other orange on purple background.

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Two side-by-side heart-shaped icons with 'MGS' text, one blue on orange background and the other orange on purple background.

Two side-by-side heart-shaped icons with 'MGS' text, one blue on orange background and the other orange on purple background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side icons
  • heart centered in frame
  • text overlaid on heart

Dense Caption

Left icon: solid blue heart shape on bright orange background; white stylized 'MGS' text overlaid in flowing script across heart center. Right icon: solid orange heart shape on deep purple background; yellowish-white stylized 'MGS' text overlaid in same flowing script across heart center. Both icons use pixelated rendering with visible dithering and soft edges, no animation present.

Description

  • Two side-by-side heart-shaped icons with 'MGS' text, one blue on orange background and the other orange on purple 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart shape mgs text
  • blue orange purple mgs icons
  • stylized mgs heart icon
  • mgs pixelated heart

Subjects

  • heart shape

Visible Text

  • MGS

Visually Supported Entities

  • MGS (text)

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped
  • blue-orange contrast
  • orange-purple contrast
  • stylized MGS text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20120116013928992776546
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
8bc42c763c1eb3dd
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Two side-by-side heart-shaped icons with 'MGS' text, one blue on orange background and the other orange on purple background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:44 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,647 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 580

Review tags

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  • deep purple (color, 0.80)
  • solid blue (color, 0.80)
  • solid orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellowish white (color, 0.80)
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  • bright orange
  • deep purple
  • solid blue
  • solid orange
  • white
  • yellowish-white

Composition

  • two side-by-side icons
  • heart centered in frame
  • text overlaid on heart

Dense Caption

Left icon: solid blue heart shape on bright orange background; white stylized 'MGS' text overlaid in flowing script across heart center. Right icon: solid orange heart shape on deep purple background; yellowish-white stylized 'MGS' text overlaid in same flowing script across heart center. Both icons use pixelated rendering with visible dithering and soft edges, no animation present.

Description

  • Two side-by-side heart-shaped icons with 'MGS' text, one blue on orange background and the other orange on purple 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart shape mgs text
  • blue orange purple mgs icons
  • stylized mgs heart icon
  • mgs pixelated heart

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered edges
  • stylized script text

Subjects

  • heart shape
  • text

Visible Text

  • MGS

Visually Supported Entities

  • MGS (text)

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped
  • blue-orange contrast
  • orange-purple contrast
  • stylized MGS text
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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
20120116013928992776546
Archive entry
20120116013928992776546.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20120116013928992776546.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20120116013928992776546.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016