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A pixelated purple heart outline with a black interior, overlaid on a faint gray 'H' and 'M' lettering against a black background.

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A pixelated purple heart outline with a black interior, overlaid on a faint gray 'H' and 'M' lettering against a black background.

A pixelated purple heart outline with a black interior, overlaid on a faint gray 'H' and 'M' lettering against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart centered
  • letters behind heart
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated heart shape composed of purple and pink gradient pixels, with a solid black interior. The heart outline is formed by a continuous line of varying purple shades, transitioning from light lavender to deep magenta. Behind the heart, faint gray lettering is visible: the left side shows a partial 'H' and the right side shows a partial 'M', both rendered in a blocky, pixelated style. The background is solid black. The heart's outline has a slightly irregular, hand-drawn appearance with visible pixelation. The 'H' and 'M' letters are positioned horizontally, with the 'H' on the left and 'M' on the right, both partially obscured by the heart outline. The heart's top curves extend above the letters, while the bottom point of the heart sits below the horizontal line of the letters. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A pixelated purple heart outline with a black interior, overlaid on a faint gray 'H' and 'M' lettering against a 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple heart gray letters
  • pixelated heart black background
  • heart outline gray H M
  • retro digital heart letters
  • purple gradient heart black interior
  • hand-drawn heart gray H M
  • pixelated heart black background gray letters
  • heart outline with H M letters

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • H
  • M

Wordwall

  • purple heart outline
  • black interior
  • gray 'H' letter
  • gray 'M' letter
  • pixelated style
  • black background
  • gradient purple pixels
  • faint lettering
  • retro digital art
  • hand-drawn heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007112512275977084796
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/98a88df84c5fdf88e87c15ea97264f815c4b0b71a16dd3d25ad67f0b73ef998a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
98a88df84c5fdf88
SHA-256
98a88df84c5fdf88e87c15ea97264f815c4b0b71a16dd3d25ad67f0b73ef998a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083399

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated purple heart outline with a black interior, overlaid on a faint gray 'H' and 'M' lettering against a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,466 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 803

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • hand drawn (style, 0.80)
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  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
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  • letters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • heart centered
  • letters behind heart
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated heart shape composed of purple and pink gradient pixels, with a solid black interior. The heart outline is formed by a continuous line of varying purple shades, transitioning from light lavender to deep magenta. Behind the heart, faint gray lettering is visible: the left side shows a partial 'H' and the right side shows a partial 'M', both rendered in a blocky, pixelated style. The background is solid black. The heart's outline has a slightly irregular, hand-drawn appearance with visible pixelation. The 'H' and 'M' letters are positioned horizontally, with the 'H' on the left and 'M' on the right, both partially obscured by the heart outline. The heart's top curves extend above the letters, while the bottom point of the heart sits below the horizontal line of the letters. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A pixelated purple heart outline with a black interior, overlaid on a faint gray 'H' and 'M' lettering against a 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated heart black background
  • heart outline gray H M
  • retro digital heart letters
  • purple gradient heart black interior
  • hand-drawn heart gray H M
  • pixelated heart black background gray letters
  • heart outline with H M letters

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • hand-drawn

Subjects

  • heart
  • letters

Visible Text

  • H
  • M

Wordwall

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  • black interior
  • gray 'H' letter
  • gray 'M' letter
  • pixelated style
  • black background
  • gradient purple pixels
  • faint lettering
  • retro digital art
  • hand-drawn heart
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:26 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
2007112512275977084796
Archive entry
2007112512275977084796.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#2007112512275977084796.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007112512275977084796.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016