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A static pixel art image with cyan text on a dark blue background, featuring repeated phrases and symbols.

A static pixel art image with cyan text on a dark blue background, featuring repeated phrases and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated phrases

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. Cyan pixelated text: 'take a hint' repeated twice horizontally, 'SILLY' repeated twice below it, 'i like you!' repeated twice below that. Two cyan '<3' symbols at the bottom corners. A red heart symbol above the top-left of the first 'take a hint'. All elements are static with no animation.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with cyan text on a dark blue background, featuring repeated phrases and symbols.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007110406092126555788

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text dark blue background red heart
  • repeated 'i like you' pixel art
  • SILLY take a hint <3 icon
  • affectionate pixel art message

Visible Text

  • take a hint
  • SILLY
  • i like you!
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • dark blue background
  • red heart symbol
  • <3 symbols
  • repeated phrases
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007110406092126555788
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9eff9043d09db3ee291d0f999a161ec34ce5f92adc88eb8ebed5577f8755b57a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
9eff9043d09db3ee
SHA-256
9eff9043d09db3ee291d0f999a161ec34ce5f92adc88eb8ebed5577f8755b57a
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
0.123105

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with cyan text on a dark blue background, featuring repeated phrases and symbols.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,439 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 621

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • cyan
  • red

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated phrases

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. Cyan pixelated text: 'take a hint' repeated twice horizontally, 'SILLY' repeated twice below it, 'i like you!' repeated twice below that. Two cyan '<3' symbols at the bottom corners. A red heart symbol above the top-left of the first 'take a hint'. All elements are static with no animation.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with cyan text on a dark blue background, featuring repeated phrases and symbols.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007110406092126555788

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text dark blue background red heart
  • repeated 'i like you' pixel art
  • SILLY take a hint <3 icon
  • affectionate pixel art message

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Visible Text

  • take a hint
  • SILLY
  • i like you!
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • dark blue background
  • red heart symbol
  • <3 symbols
  • repeated phrases
  • pixelated style
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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
2007110406092126555788
Archive entry
2007110406092126555788.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#2007110406092126555788.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007110406092126555788.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016