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Four cyan hearts on pink background with 'HICK' text in magenta, each heart has distinct pixelated edges and varying internal spacing.

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Four cyan hearts on pink background with 'HICK' text in magenta, each heart has distinct pixelated edges and varying internal spacing.

Four cyan hearts on pink background with 'HICK' text in magenta, each heart has distinct pixelated edges and varying internal spacing. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames identical with cyan hearts on pink background and 'HICK' text.

Composition

  • 4 hearts in arrangement
  • centered text within each heart

Dense Caption

The image contains four cyan heart shapes arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid pink background. Each heart displays the word 'HICK' in magenta pixelated text centered within it. The hearts have slightly different edge definitions: top-left is most rounded, top-right has sharper edges, bottom-left shows more jagged pixels, and bottom-right appears smoother than others. All hearts share identical internal spacing between letters of 'HICK'.

Description

  • Four cyan hearts on pink background with 'HICK' text in magenta, each heart has distinct pixelated edges and varying internal spacing.

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
  • 200711131342471055281716

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart magenta text
  • pink background pixel art
  • 4 hearts
  • magenta HICK text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 4 hearts in 2x2 arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: 4 hearts grid layout

Visible Text

  • HICK

Wordwall

  • cyan heart shapes
  • pink background
  • magenta text
  • 'HICK' text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711131342471055281716
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c396cf2fe2ef1247a6a408cea39c1bf0f7d444f627d23c7bc0c6f52852362de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
8c396cf2fe2ef124
SHA-256
8c396cf2fe2ef1247a6a408cea39c1bf0f7d444f627d23c7bc0c6f52852362de
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074682

OpenAI category scores

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Four cyan hearts on pink background with 'HICK' text in magenta, each heart has distinct pixelated edges and varying internal spacing.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 18:06 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,942 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 600

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames identical with cyan hearts on pink background and 'HICK' text.

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • magenta

Composition

  • 4 hearts in arrangement
  • centered text within each heart

Dense Caption

The image contains four cyan heart shapes arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid pink background. Each heart displays the word 'HICK' in magenta pixelated text centered within it. The hearts have slightly different edge definitions: top-left is most rounded, top-right has sharper edges, bottom-left shows more jagged pixels, and bottom-right appears smoother than others. All hearts share identical internal spacing between letters of 'HICK'.

Description

  • Four cyan hearts on pink background with 'HICK' text in magenta, each heart has distinct pixelated edges and varying internal spacing.

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
  • 200711131342471055281716

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart magenta text
  • pink background pixel art
  • 4 hearts
  • magenta HICK text

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 4 hearts in 2x2 arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: 4 hearts grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • HICK

Wordwall

  • cyan heart shapes
  • pink background
  • magenta text
  • 'HICK' text
  • pixelated font
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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
200711131342471055281716
Archive entry
200711131342471055281716.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#200711131342471055281716.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711131342471055281716.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016