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Pixelated image with repeating pink hearts, brown text, and brown shapes on a blue background.

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Pixelated image with repeating pink hearts, brown text, and brown shapes on a blue background.

Pixelated image with repeating pink hearts, brown text, and brown shapes on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal
  • repeating elements
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Blue background with horizontal rows of pink pixelated hearts. Brown pixelated text reads "HOLLISTER C" repeated across the image. Brown pixelated shapes resembling birds or abstract forms appear below the text rows. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image with repeating pink hearts, brown text, and brown shapes on a blue background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • HOLLISTER C

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hollister c pixelated hearts
  • blue background pink hearts
  • buddy icon hollister c
  • retro digital hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • HOLLISTER C

Wordwall

  • pink hearts
  • blue background
  • brown text
  • HOLLISTER C
  • pixelated
  • repeating hearts
  • brown shapes
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711212024371445813370
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aa6e73c4c38bb2efecce003e3e8f4ba6062ebdf0f4adecd74b974b7e9adf53d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
aa6e73c4c38bb2ef
SHA-256
aa6e73c4c38bb2efecce003e3e8f4ba6062ebdf0f4adecd74b974b7e9adf53d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102633

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image with repeating pink hearts, brown text, and brown shapes on a blue background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,456 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 697

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • brown

Composition

  • horizontal
  • repeating elements
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Blue background with horizontal rows of pink pixelated hearts. Brown pixelated text reads "HOLLISTER C" repeated across the image. Brown pixelated shapes resembling birds or abstract forms appear below the text rows. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image with repeating pink hearts, brown text, and brown shapes on a blue background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • HOLLISTER C

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hollister c pixelated hearts
  • blue background pink hearts
  • buddy icon hollister c
  • retro digital hearts

Objects

  • hearts
  • text
  • shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text
  • shapes

Visible Text

  • HOLLISTER C

Wordwall

  • pink hearts
  • blue background
  • brown text
  • HOLLISTER C
  • pixelated
  • repeating hearts
  • brown shapes
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:05 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200711212024371445813370
Archive entry
200711212024371445813370.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711212024371445813370.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711212024371445813370.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016