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Red background with white pixelated text and symbols: "heart" with a heart symbol, "u", and "babe" in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

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Red background with white pixelated text and symbols: "heart" with a heart symbol, "u", and "babe" in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

Red background with white pixelated text and symbols: "heart" with a heart symbol, "u", and "babe" in two identical side-by-side arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side arrangements
  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text and symbols. Left arrangement: top has two small angled lines, then a heart symbol, followed by "heart" in quotation marks, then "u" in quotation marks, then "babe" in quotation marks. Right arrangement mirrors the left exactly. All text and symbols are white, pixelated, and rendered in a retro digital style. The heart symbol is a hollow outline. Both arrangements are identical in composition and content.

Description

Red background with white pixelated text and symbols: "heart" with a heart symbol, "u", and "babe" in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white pixelated text heart u babe
  • two identical side-by-side arrangements
  • hollow heart outline white text
  • retro digital style heart u babe

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • "heart"
  • "u"
  • "babe"

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • quotation marks
  • "heart"
  • "u"
  • "babe"
  • hollow heart outline
  • two identical side-by-side arrangements
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080228175721547117395
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
233 bytes
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 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
8ddb356950578940
SHA-256
8ddb356950578940d93d31ff1f3c402c5036cb974e0ee38011a3062418a5982b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 05:44 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with white pixelated text and symbols: "heart" with a heart symbol, "u", and "babe" in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,544 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 678

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side arrangements
  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text and symbols. Left arrangement: top has two small angled lines, then a heart symbol, followed by "heart" in quotation marks, then "u" in quotation marks, then "babe" in quotation marks. Right arrangement mirrors the left exactly. All text and symbols are white, pixelated, and rendered in a retro digital style. The heart symbol is a hollow outline. Both arrangements are identical in composition and content.

Description

Red background with white pixelated text and symbols: "heart" with a heart symbol, "u", and "babe" in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white pixelated text heart u babe
  • two identical side-by-side arrangements
  • hollow heart outline white text
  • retro digital style heart u babe

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • "heart"
  • "u"
  • "babe"

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • quotation marks
  • "heart"
  • "u"
  • "babe"
  • hollow heart outline
  • two identical side-by-side arrangements
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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August 4, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20080228175721547117395
Archive entry
20080228175721547117395.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080228175721547117395.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080228175721547117395.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016