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Static pixel art displays red text and symbols on black background with green heart symbol centered above.

Static pixel art displays red text and symbols on black background with green heart symbol centered above. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three vertical
  • centered heart
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background contains three vertical columns of red pixelated elements. Left column: top 'i', middle '<3' (heart), bottom 'sos'. Center column: single green heart-shaped symbol composed of connected pixels. Right column: identical to left column ('i', '<3', 'sos'). All text and symbols are rendered in blocky, low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays red text and symbols on black background with green heart symbol centered above.

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
  • 200711161435551938042060

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red sos text green heart
  • pixel art three black background
  • heart symbol sos text red green
  • sos i <3 pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art three columns black background

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • sos

Wordwall

  • red text
  • <3 symbol
  • green heart
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • three
  • sos text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711161435551938042060
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
205 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/904da6a27a551a6a581d2436c2cbf81dcd09a6a54ab2ab6b2edb8156660df681.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
904da6a27a551a6a
SHA-256
904da6a27a551a6a581d2436c2cbf81dcd09a6a54ab2ab6b2edb8156660df681
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126530

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays red text and symbols on black background with green heart symbol centered above.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:00 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,398 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • three vertical
  • centered heart
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background contains three vertical columns of red pixelated elements. Left column: top 'i', middle '<3' (heart), bottom 'sos'. Center column: single green heart-shaped symbol composed of connected pixels. Right column: identical to left column ('i', '<3', 'sos'). All text and symbols are rendered in blocky, low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays red text and symbols on black background with green heart symbol centered above.

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
  • 200711161435551938042060

Mood

  • urgent
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red sos text green heart
  • pixel art three black background
  • heart symbol sos text red green
  • sos i <3 pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art three columns black background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • sos

Wordwall

  • red text
  • <3 symbol
  • green heart
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • three
  • sos text
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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
200711161435551938042060
Archive entry
200711161435551938042060.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#200711161435551938042060.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711161435551938042060.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016