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Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the '@' in 'I hint @'.

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Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the '@' in 'I hint @'.

Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the '@' in 'I hint @'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • repeating phrases
  • single symbol substitution

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "I hint @ I hint @ wat i want wat i want u 2 say sou 2 say so i don't i don't have 2 sayhave 2 say" with a red heart symbol replacing the '@' character in both instances of 'I hint @'. The text uses lowercase letters for some words and numeric substitutions (e.g., 'u', '2', 'so').

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the '@' in 'I hint @'.

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
  • 200806291607421386298435

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art text icon
  • heart symbol @ replacement
  • text-based buddy icon
  • lowercase numeric substitution
  • repeating phrase icon
  • casual chat icon
  • 2007-2016 franksicons
  • red heart pixel art

Visible Text

  • I hint @ I hint @ wat i want wat i want u 2 say sou 2 say so i don't i don't have 2 sayhave 2 say

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • @ replaced by heart
  • lowercase letter usage
  • numeric substitutions
  • text repeats
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806291607421386298435
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
329 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bda1967cc0f0837c9fc810ee198336d1dbfb75d180edd93d231fcd0a373fdc6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
8bda1967cc0f0837
SHA-256
8bda1967cc0f0837c9fc810ee198336d1dbfb75d180edd93d231fcd0a373fdc6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.089566

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the '@' in 'I hint @'.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,528 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 670

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • repeating phrases
  • single symbol substitution

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "I hint @ I hint @ wat i want wat i want u 2 say sou 2 say so i don't i don't have 2 sayhave 2 say" with a red heart symbol replacing the '@' character in both instances of 'I hint @'. The text uses lowercase letters for some words and numeric substitutions (e.g., 'u', '2', 'so').

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and a red heart symbol replacing the '@' in 'I hint @'.

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
  • 200806291607421386298435

Mood

  • playful
  • casual
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art text icon
  • heart symbol @ replacement
  • text-based buddy icon
  • lowercase numeric substitution
  • repeating phrase icon
  • casual chat icon
  • 2007-2016 franksicons
  • red heart pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • I hint @ I hint @ wat i want wat i want u 2 say sou 2 say so i don't i don't have 2 sayhave 2 say

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • @ replaced by heart
  • lowercase letter usage
  • numeric substitutions
  • text repeats
  • pixel art style
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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
200806291607421386298435
Archive entry
200806291607421386298435.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806291607421386298435.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806291607421386298435.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016