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Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a

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Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a

Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Black background with evenly spaced white dots. Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains the text "MAGIC" in uppercase letters above a smaller "<3" symbol. The text and symbols are rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. All four instances are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magic <3 pixelated
  • yellow text black background
  • white dots
  • low-resolution magic <3
  • pixelated magic <3 white dots
  • magic <3
  • yellow magic <3
  • black background white dots magic <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: magic <3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid white dots

Visible Text

  • MAGIC
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white dots
  • yellow text
  • MAGIC
  • <3
  • pixelated
  • identical
  • low-resolution
  • uppercase
  • blocky style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081110135503102958934
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
9c5e805adc9075f7
SHA-256
9c5e805adc9075f71cbb37fa5fb2d82645a3a0a7ade68205788d1ebb3d7a3970
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
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Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,757 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 669

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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • black
  • white
  • yellow

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  • evenly spaced
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Black background with evenly spaced white dots. Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains the text "MAGIC" in uppercase letters above a smaller "<3" symbol. The text and symbols are rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. All four instances are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated yellow text blocks reading "MAGIC <3" on a black background with white dots, arranged in a

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magic <3 pixelated
  • yellow text black background
  • white dots
  • low-resolution magic <3
  • pixelated magic <3 white dots
  • magic <3
  • yellow magic <3
  • black background white dots magic <3

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  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid white dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

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  • MAGIC
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white dots
  • yellow text
  • MAGIC
  • <3
  • pixelated
  • identical
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  • uppercase
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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
20081110135503102958934
Archive entry
20081110135503102958934.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081110135503102958934.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081110135503102958934.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016