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Six identical red and white shield emblems arranged in a , each with a red cross on a white background, surrounded by a circular border with text, and three red '<3' symbols overlaid on the

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Six identical red and white shield emblems arranged in a , each with a red cross on a white background, surrounded by a circular border with text, and three red '<3' symbols overlaid on the

Six identical red and white shield emblems arranged in a , each with a red cross on a white background, surrounded by a circular border with text, and three red '<3' symbols overl…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Six identical shield emblems arranged in a 2x3 grid on a solid red background. Each shield features a red cross on a white background with vertical red and white stripes below the cross. The shields are enclosed in a circular border with text. Three red '<3' symbols are overlaid on the grid: one in the middle-left, one in the middle-right, and one in the bottom-center. The emblems are identical in design and color scheme.

Description

Six identical red and white shield emblems arranged in a , each with a red cross on a white background, surrounded by a circular border with text, and three red '<3' symbols overlaid on the

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red and white shield emblems
  • six shield emblems
  • <3 symbols red background
  • red cross white stripes shield

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: six shield emblems grid

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • six shield emblems
  • red cross
  • white stripes
  • circular border
  • <3 symbols
  • identical emblems
  • red and white colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009092914222465029608
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
8ee5dfbd56c7e6b8
SHA-256
8ee5dfbd56c7e6b8ca8a7127b8605da89e964b68f92be73554bf7b7f4eaa0301
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000844

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
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1127
Input
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Overall label
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Six identical red and white shield emblems arranged in a , each with a red cross on a white background, surrounded by a circular border with text, and three red '<3' symbols overlaid on the

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,720 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 681

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • shield emblems (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static.

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Six identical shield emblems arranged in a 2x3 grid on a solid red background. Each shield features a red cross on a white background with vertical red and white stripes below the cross. The shields are enclosed in a circular border with text. Three red '<3' symbols are overlaid on the grid: one in the middle-left, one in the middle-right, and one in the bottom-center. The emblems are identical in design and color scheme.

Description

Six identical red and white shield emblems arranged in a , each with a red cross on a white background, surrounded by a circular border with text, and three red '<3' symbols overlaid on the

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

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red and white shield emblems
  • six shield emblems
  • <3 symbols red background
  • red cross white stripes shield

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • graphic
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • shield emblems
  • <3 symbols

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • six shield emblems
  • red cross
  • white stripes
  • circular border
  • <3 symbols
  • identical emblems
  • red and white colors
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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
2009092914222465029608
Archive entry
2009092914222465029608.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#2009092914222465029608.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009092914222465029608.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016