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Yellow background with black pixelated heart symbol above two identical text strings reading 'kay*con' in lowercase.

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Yellow background with black pixelated heart symbol above two identical text strings reading 'kay*con' in lowercase.

Yellow background with black pixelated heart symbol above two identical text strings reading 'kay*con' in lowercase. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above two text lines
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Solid yellow background. Centered at the top is a black, pixelated heart shape composed of blocky squares. Below it are two separate instances of the text string 'kay*con', each rendered in black, blocky pixels with an asterisk replacing the letter 'x' between 'kay' and 'con'. The left instance appears slightly more faded than the right one.

Description

  • Yellow background with black pixelated heart symbol above two identical text strings reading 'kay*con' in lowercase.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200805091142461456439234

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background black heart kay*con
  • pixelated heart text kay*con
  • kay*con yellow background heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • kay*con

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • black pixelated heart
  • 'kay*con' text
  • two identical text instances
  • asterisk in text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805091142461456439234
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
204 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9e7e422d9f83917d99de892a240f0b11ea90dc737f39bda81a0ca6c245a269b4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
9e7e422d9f83917d
SHA-256
9e7e422d9f83917d99de892a240f0b11ea90dc737f39bda81a0ca6c245a269b4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109079

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with black pixelated heart symbol above two identical text strings reading 'kay*con' in lowercase.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,144 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 619

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart above two text lines
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Solid yellow background. Centered at the top is a black, pixelated heart shape composed of blocky squares. Below it are two separate instances of the text string 'kay*con', each rendered in black, blocky pixels with an asterisk replacing the letter 'x' between 'kay' and 'con'. The left instance appears slightly more faded than the right one.

Description

  • Yellow background with black pixelated heart symbol above two identical text strings reading 'kay*con' in lowercase.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200805091142461456439234

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background black heart kay*con
  • pixelated heart text kay*con
  • kay*con yellow background heart

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • kay*con

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • black pixelated heart
  • 'kay*con' text
  • two identical text instances
  • asterisk in 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
200805091142461456439234
Archive entry
200805091142461456439234.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805091142461456439234.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805091142461456439234.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016