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Pixelated text 'corey up the bestest' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter y in corey on one side, displayed against black background.

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Pixelated text 'corey up the bestest' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter y in corey on one side, displayed against black background.

Pixelated text 'corey up the bestest' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter y in corey on one side, displayed against black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no motion observed

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • left side has heart replacement
  • right side identical to left without heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text reading 'corey up the bestest'. On left side of image, the letter 'y' in 'corey' is replaced by a solid red heart symbol. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font with visible pixelation. Right side shows identical text without heart symbol. All letters are lowercase except for 'bestest', which has capital B at start. The word 'up' appears centered between 'corey' and 'the'.

Description

Pixelated text 'corey up the bestest' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter y in corey on one side, displayed against black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • corey up the bestest
  • heart replaces y in corey
  • pixelated text with red heart
  • black background white text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • corey
  • up
  • the
  • bestest

Visually Supported Entities

  • corey

Wordwall

  • red heart replaces y in corey
  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • 8-bit font style
  • text reads corey up the bestest
  • capital B in bestest

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709141252081587169387
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
880 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 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
8f84169f6cdb2f85
SHA-256
8f84169f6cdb2f85f70a03096fe3b28da2221f6a513cdc4b46f742c876ab1fd2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074059

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Pixelated text 'corey up the bestest' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter y in corey on one side, displayed against black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:56 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,047 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 615

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • static image with no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no motion observed

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • left side has heart replacement
  • right side identical to left without heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text reading 'corey up the bestest'. On left side of image, the letter 'y' in 'corey' is replaced by a solid red heart symbol. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font with visible pixelation. Right side shows identical text without heart symbol. All letters are lowercase except for 'bestest', which has capital B at start. The word 'up' appears centered between 'corey' and 'the'.

Description

Pixelated text 'corey up the bestest' with a red heart symbol replacing the letter y in corey on one side, displayed against black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • corey up the bestest
  • heart replaces y in corey
  • pixelated text with red heart
  • black background white text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • corey
  • up
  • the
  • bestest

Visually Supported Entities

  • corey

Wordwall

  • red heart replaces y in corey
  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • 8-bit font style
  • text reads corey up the bestest
  • capital B in bestest
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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
200709141252081587169387
Archive entry
200709141252081587169387.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#200709141252081587169387.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709141252081587169387.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016