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Animated icon showing heart shapes transitioning from black to color with text labels 'From Black' and 'To' above.

Animated icon showing heart shapes transitioning from black to color with text labels 'From Black' and 'To' above. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts transition from black to colored states

Animation Summary

  • Hearts transition from black to colored states with glowing outlines.

Composition

  • text top-left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-center
  • hearts scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white text 'From Black' in top-left and 'To' in top-right. Four heart shapes appear: top-left blue, top-right green, bottom-left purple, bottom-middle cyan. Hearts have glowing outlines and solid centers. Text 'Color' in white at bottom center. Hearts transition from black to colored states. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Animated icon showing heart shapes transitioning from black to color with text labels 'From Black' and 'To' above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20090812172310687547671

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hearts glowing outlines
  • black background white text
  • From Black To Color
  • blue green purple cyan hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • From Black
  • To
  • Color

Wordwall

  • hearts
  • glowing outlines
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • cyan
  • black background
  • white text
  • From Black
  • To
  • Color
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090812172310687547671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d6901cbbb7fa0238a093aaaf7b77fbd4d6a6687f7db7ac2cd42d0f70ee9d6f1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
8d6901cbbb7fa023
SHA-256
8d6901cbbb7fa0238a093aaaf7b77fbd4d6a6687f7db7ac2cd42d0f70ee9d6f1
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 17:56 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000011

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 20:58 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon showing heart shapes transitioning from black to color with text labels 'From Black' and 'To' above.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,556 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 755

Review tags

  • transitioning (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts transition from black to colored states (other, 0.80)
  • glowing outlines (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transitioning

Animation

  • hearts transition from black to colored states

Animation Summary

  • Hearts transition from black to colored states with glowing outlines.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • cyan

Composition

  • text top-left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-center
  • hearts scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white text 'From Black' in top-left and 'To' in top-right. Four heart shapes appear: top-left blue, top-right green, bottom-left purple, bottom-middle cyan. Hearts have glowing outlines and solid centers. Text 'Color' in white at bottom center. Hearts transition from black to colored states. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Animated icon showing heart shapes transitioning from black to color with text labels 'From Black' and 'To' above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20090812172310687547671

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hearts glowing outlines
  • black background white text
  • From Black To Color
  • blue green purple cyan hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • glowing outlines

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • From Black
  • To
  • Color

Wordwall

  • hearts
  • glowing outlines
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • cyan
  • black background
  • white text
  • From Black
  • To
  • Color
  • pixelated
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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
20090812172310687547671
Archive entry
20090812172310687547671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#20090812172310687547671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090812172310687547671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016