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Red background with white pixelated heart above two identical black text blocks reading 'ERIC !!!!!' in bold, blocky font.

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Red background with white pixelated heart above two identical black text blocks reading 'ERIC !!!!!' in bold, blocky font.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two horizontal text blocks below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Solid red background. White pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Two identical horizontal text blocks below the heart, each containing uppercase letters 'ERIC' followed by six exclamation marks using a thick, blocky pixelated font with black pixels and subtle dark gray outlines. Both text blocks are horizontally centered relative to each other but spaced apart from one another.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated heart above two identical black text blocks reading 'ERIC !!!!!' in bold, blocky font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background heart ERIC exclamation
  • pixelated heart text block
  • two identical ERIC !!!!! blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Visible Text

  • ERIC !!!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • ERIC

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated heart
  • ERIC !!!!!
  • blocky font
  • two identical text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807061518012025167055
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
498 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
a30c8d63bc33f66e
SHA-256
a30c8d63bc33f66e85e17f5a3775a932d157a331acb2d7162c2e952ed34abb11
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082990

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white pixelated heart above two identical black text blocks reading 'ERIC !!!!!' in bold, blocky font.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,256 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 561

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • exclamatory (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • dark gray

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two horizontal text blocks below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Solid red background. White pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Two identical horizontal text blocks below the heart, each containing uppercase letters 'ERIC' followed by six exclamation marks using a thick, blocky pixelated font with black pixels and subtle dark gray outlines. Both text blocks are horizontally centered relative to each other but spaced apart from one another.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated heart above two identical black text blocks reading 'ERIC !!!!!' in bold, blocky font.

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

Mood

  • urgent
  • exclamatory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background heart ERIC exclamation
  • pixelated heart text block
  • two identical ERIC !!!!! blocks

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • digital art

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Visible Text

  • ERIC !!!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • ERIC

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated heart
  • ERIC !!!!!
  • blocky font
  • two identical text blocks
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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
200807061518012025167055
Archive entry
200807061518012025167055.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807061518012025167055.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807061518012025167055.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016