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Pixelated giraffe icon with orange spots on beige background, right side shows text 'MARIA H. <3 CHRIS C.' in black pixel font.

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Pixelated giraffe icon with orange spots on beige background, right side shows text 'MARIA H. <3 CHRIS C.' in black pixel font.

Pixelated giraffe icon with orange spots on beige background, right side shows text 'MARIA H. <3 CHRIS C.' in black pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • giraffe on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Yellow giraffe with dark brown outline and orange circular spots stands left of center; head tilted slightly up-right, two small round eyes at top of head, long neck curves down-left to body, tail extends right with rounded tip. Beige background has faint grid pattern. Right side features black pixelated text: 'MARIA H.' on top line, '<3' centered below it (heart symbol), 'CHRIS C.' on bottom line. Small pink heart and two dark squares appear near giraffe's lower body.

Description

  • Pixelated giraffe icon with orange spots on beige background, right side shows text 'MARIA H. <3 CHRIS C.' in black pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

  • giraffe pixel art
  • MARIA H. CHRIS C. text
  • heart symbol giraffe icon
  • yellow spotted giraffe

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: beige grid background
  • quarantined objects: grid background

Visible Text

  • MARIA H.
  • <3
  • CHRIS C.

Visually Supported Entities

  • MARIA H.
  • CHRIS C.

Wordwall

  • yellow giraffe
  • orange spots
  • beige background
  • <3 heart symbol
  • MARIA H. CHRIS C. text
  • pink heart detail

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710150248081261382610
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab54c693427d3736e858c866582d70b0ac94e6a6a6d1d252e22b2131ea330e6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
ab54c693427d3736
SHA-256
ab54c693427d3736e858c866582d70b0ac94e6a6a6d1d252e22b2131ea330e6e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:37 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097009

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated giraffe icon with orange spots on beige background, right side shows text 'MARIA H. <3 CHRIS C.' in black pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,255 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 631

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • background (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • giraffe (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • beige
  • black
  • pink
  • dark brown

Composition

  • left-right split
  • giraffe on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Yellow giraffe with dark brown outline and orange circular spots stands left of center; head tilted slightly up-right, two small round eyes at top of head, long neck curves down-left to body, tail extends right with rounded tip. Beige background has faint grid pattern. Right side features black pixelated text: 'MARIA H.' on top line, '<3' centered below it (heart symbol), 'CHRIS C.' on bottom line. Small pink heart and two dark squares appear near giraffe's lower body.

Description

  • Pixelated giraffe icon with orange spots on beige background, right side shows text 'MARIA H. <3 CHRIS C.' in black pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • giraffe pixel art
  • MARIA H. CHRIS C. text
  • heart symbol giraffe icon
  • yellow spotted giraffe

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: beige grid background
  • quarantined objects: grid background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon style

Subjects

  • giraffe

Visible Text

  • MARIA H.
  • <3
  • CHRIS C.

Visually Supported Entities

  • MARIA H.
  • CHRIS C.

Wordwall

  • yellow giraffe
  • orange spots
  • beige background
  • <3 heart symbol
  • MARIA H. CHRIS C. text
  • pink heart detail
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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
200710150248081261382610
Archive entry
200710150248081261382610.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710150248081261382610.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710150248081261382610.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016