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A pixelated heart-shaped icon with yellow-orange gradient background and red text reading "Hella Merp Happy" in blocky font.

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A pixelated heart-shaped icon with yellow-orange gradient background and red text reading "Hella Merp Happy" in blocky font.

A pixelated heart-shaped icon with yellow-orange gradient background and red text reading "Hella Merp Happy" in blocky font. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart-shaped
  • text centered
  • three-line arrangement

Dense Caption

The icon is a heart shape with a yellow-orange gradient fill and white outline. Red blocky text reads "Hella Merp Happy" across the heart. The text is arranged in three lines: "Hella" on top, "Merp" in the middle, and "Happy" at the bottom. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The background outside the heart is solid pink. The text uses a bold, sans-serif font with thick red strokes. The heart's outline is white and slightly jagged due to pixelation. The overall style is retro and playful.

Description

  • A pixelated heart-shaped icon with yellow-orange gradient background and red text reading "Hella Merp Happy" in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070814171646229712045
  • 200708141814151870872260
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart shape hella merp happy
  • pixelated heart text
  • yellow orange red pink heart
  • hella merp happy icon
  • retro buddy icon
  • three line text heart
  • blocky font heart
  • 2007 buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070814171646229712045
  • 200708141814151870872260
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • Hella
  • Merp
  • Happy

Wordwall

  • heart shape
  • yellow-orange gradient
  • red blocky text
  • Hella Merp Happy
  • three-line text
  • pixelated
  • white outline
  • solid pink background
  • bold sans-serif font
  • retro style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070814171646229712045
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708141814151870872260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/972be1debad16191b597e59df64b6739b61b4a63edd4456ce10ad2f94d63eeca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
972be1debad16191
SHA-256
972be1debad16191b597e59df64b6739b61b4a63edd4456ce10ad2f94d63eeca
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 06:22 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010211

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated heart-shaped icon with yellow-orange gradient background and red text reading "Hella Merp Happy" in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,696 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,132, response 905

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • playful (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • heart-shaped
  • text centered
  • three-line arrangement

Dense Caption

The icon is a heart shape with a yellow-orange gradient fill and white outline. Red blocky text reads "Hella Merp Happy" across the heart. The text is arranged in three lines: "Hella" on top, "Merp" in the middle, and "Happy" at the bottom. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The background outside the heart is solid pink. The text uses a bold, sans-serif font with thick red strokes. The heart's outline is white and slightly jagged due to pixelation. The overall style is retro and playful.

Description

  • A pixelated heart-shaped icon with yellow-orange gradient background and red text reading "Hella Merp Happy" in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070814171646229712045
  • 200708141814151870872260
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated heart text
  • yellow orange red pink heart
  • hella merp happy icon
  • retro buddy icon
  • three line text heart
  • blocky font heart
  • 2007 buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • franksicons
  • 20070814171646229712045
  • 200708141814151870872260
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • playful

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • Hella
  • Merp
  • Happy

Wordwall

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  • yellow-orange gradient
  • red blocky text
  • Hella Merp Happy
  • three-line text
  • pixelated
  • white outline
  • solid pink background
  • bold sans-serif font
  • retro style
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:39 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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 (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
20070814171646229712045
Archive entry
20070814171646229712045.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070814171646229712045.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070814171646229712045.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
200708141814151870872260
Archive entry
200708141814151870872260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708141814151870872260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708141814151870872260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016