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A circular arrangement of small anime-style character icons surrounding a central heart symbol on a dark gray background.

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A circular arrangement of small anime-style character icons surrounding a central heart symbol on a dark gray background.

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Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • symmetrical
  • central heart surrounded by characters

Dense Caption

Circular composition with 16 distinct anime-style character icons arranged around the perimeter. Central element is a white outlined heart shape on dark gray background. Icons include characters in various colors: green, red, blue, purple, orange, and pink. Each icon shows full-body or upper-body poses typical of anime art style. Pixelation suggests low-resolution digital rendering common in early 2000s instant messaging platforms. No visible text within the icons themselves.

Description

  • A circular arrangement of small anime-style character icons surrounding a central heart symbol on a dark gray 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905031643271611526983
  • 20090503164333473652831

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character icons circular arrangement heart symbol
  • 16 anime characters dark gray background white heart
  • pixelated low-resolution anime buddy icon
  • circular anime icons green red blue purple orange pink

Objects

  • heart symbol

Wordwall

  • 16 character icons
  • anime-style
  • circular arrangement
  • dark gray background
  • white heart symbol
  • green, red, blue, purple, orange, pink colors

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905031643271611526983
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090503164333473652831
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
92f02e7295ebd89d
SHA-256
92f02e7295ebd89d75c4d4bcd4c36c4fe4975141938347cb01343921b535850c
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:45 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106451

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A circular arrangement of small anime-style character icons surrounding a central heart symbol on a dark gray background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,770 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,157, response 662

Review tags

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  • gray
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  • green
  • red
  • blue
  • purple
  • orange
  • pink

Composition

  • circular
  • symmetrical
  • central heart surrounded by characters

Dense Caption

Circular composition with 16 distinct anime-style character icons arranged around the perimeter. Central element is a white outlined heart shape on dark gray background. Icons include characters in various colors: green, red, blue, purple, orange, and pink. Each icon shows full-body or upper-body poses typical of anime art style. Pixelation suggests low-resolution digital rendering common in early 2000s instant messaging platforms. No visible text within the icons themselves.

Description

  • A circular arrangement of small anime-style character icons surrounding a central heart symbol on a dark gray 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905031643271611526983
  • 20090503164333473652831

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • 16 anime characters dark gray background white heart
  • pixelated low-resolution anime buddy icon
  • circular anime icons green red blue purple orange pink

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • anime
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • anime characters

Wordwall

  • 16 character icons
  • anime-style
  • circular arrangement
  • dark gray background
  • white heart symbol
  • green, red, blue, purple, orange, pink colors
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Full source records (2)

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
200905031643271611526983
Archive entry
200905031643271611526983.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905031643271611526983.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905031643271611526983.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20090503164333473652831
Archive entry
20090503164333473652831.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090503164333473652831.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090503164333473652831.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016