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Pixelated purple text 'ethan' with black outline on white background, surrounded by colorful heart outlines and two separate purple numbers.

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Pixelated purple text 'ethan' with black outline on white background, surrounded by colorful heart outlines and two separate purple numbers.

Pixelated purple text 'ethan' with black outline on white background, surrounded by colorful heart outlines and two separate purple numbers. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart pattern background
  • text elements distributed across frame

Dense Caption

White background filled with small pixelated hearts in green, pink, orange, yellow, light blue, and red. Two distinct purple numeric elements: a vertical '1' with black border at upper left and a '03' shape (zero followed by three) with black border at upper right. Large lowercase text 'ethan' rendered in bold pixelated purple letters with thick black outline spans the lower-left portion of the image. All heart outlines are thin, hollow, and vary in color.

Description

  • Pixelated purple text 'ethan' with black outline on white background, surrounded by colorful heart outlines and two separate purple numbers.

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

  • ethan buddy icon
  • purple text hearts background
  • 1 03 ethan icon
  • pixelated heart pattern

Visible Text

  • ethan
  • 1
  • 03

Visually Supported Entities

  • ethan

Wordwall

  • white background
  • pixelated hearts
  • green hearts
  • pink hearts
  • orange hearts
  • yellow hearts
  • light blue hearts
  • red hearts
  • vertical purple '1'
  • purple '03' shape
  • lower-left 'ethan' text
  • thick black outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080328182431981660737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac20c53d45f6111f5ea6523ba135ef2d10648037c940cb479e46e4b63bea54f1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
ac20c53d45f6111f
SHA-256
ac20c53d45f6111f5ea6523ba135ef2d10648037c940cb479e46e4b63bea54f1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.149370

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated purple text 'ethan' with black outline on white background, surrounded by colorful heart outlines and two separate purple numbers.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:56 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,951 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 633

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • purple
  • black
  • green
  • pink
  • orange
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • red

Composition

  • heart pattern background
  • text elements distributed across frame

Dense Caption

White background filled with small pixelated hearts in green, pink, orange, yellow, light blue, and red. Two distinct purple numeric elements: a vertical '1' with black border at upper left and a '03' shape (zero followed by three) with black border at upper right. Large lowercase text 'ethan' rendered in bold pixelated purple letters with thick black outline spans the lower-left portion of the image. All heart outlines are thin, hollow, and vary in color.

Description

  • Pixelated purple text 'ethan' with black outline on white background, surrounded by colorful heart outlines and two separate purple numbers.

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

  • ethan buddy icon
  • purple text hearts background
  • 1 03 ethan icon
  • pixelated heart pattern

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • buddy-icon style

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • ethan
  • 1
  • 03

Visually Supported Entities

  • ethan

Wordwall

  • white background
  • pixelated hearts
  • green hearts
  • pink hearts
  • orange hearts
  • yellow hearts
  • light blue hearts
  • red hearts
  • vertical purple '1'
  • purple '03' shape
  • lower-left 'ethan' text
  • thick black outline
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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
20080328182431981660737
Archive entry
20080328182431981660737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080328182431981660737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080328182431981660737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016