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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with animated heart and starburst elements.

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with animated heart and starburst elements.

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with animated heart and starburst elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart and starburst static
  • central dot cluster animates from 12 to 9 dots

Animation Summary

  • Heart and starburst remain static; central dot cluster animates from 12 to 9 dots.

Composition

  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Black background displays four identical pixelated sections arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each section contains 'M@NDE' (with '@' replacing 'O'), two stacked 'II', and 'V@N' (with '@' replacing 'O'). Top center shows a white heart made of pixels; top right has a white starburst with dots. Center displays an animated pixel cluster that changes from 12 to 9 dots between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with animated heart and starburst elements.

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
  • 2007122720480796644438

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text M@NDE II V@N
  • heart symbol animation
  • starburst pixel art
  • dot cluster changes size

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • M@NDE
  • II
  • V@N

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • M@NDE
  • II
  • V@N
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • pixelated animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007122720480796644438
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
953 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a01ccd86c0ce2b031eb47f5ccb66949c2871f7dce104a16a21e4576311b77f42.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
a01ccd86c0ce2b03
SHA-256
a01ccd86c0ce2b031eb47f5ccb66949c2871f7dce104a16a21e4576311b77f42
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078292

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with animated heart and starburst elements.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,465 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 684

Review tags

  • animated pixel cluster changes size (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • central dot cluster animates from 12 to 9 dots (other, 0.80)
  • heart and starburst static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • animated pixel cluster changes size

Animation

  • heart and starburst static
  • central dot cluster animates from 12 to 9 dots

Animation Summary

  • Heart and starburst remain static; central dot cluster animates from 12 to 9 dots.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Black background displays four identical pixelated sections arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each section contains 'M@NDE' (with '@' replacing 'O'), two stacked 'II', and 'V@N' (with '@' replacing 'O'). Top center shows a white heart made of pixels; top right has a white starburst with dots. Center displays an animated pixel cluster that changes from 12 to 9 dots between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background with animated heart and starburst elements.

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
  • 2007122720480796644438

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text M@NDE II V@N
  • heart symbol animation
  • starburst pixel art
  • dot cluster changes size

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • M@NDE
  • II
  • V@N

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • M@NDE
  • II
  • V@N
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • pixelated animation
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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
2007122720480796644438
Archive entry
2007122720480796644438.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#2007122720480796644438.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007122720480796644438.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016