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Pixelated text and heart icons on black background, with white hearts changing to gray in different frames.

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Pixelated text and heart icons on black background, with white hearts changing to gray in different frames.

Pixelated text and heart icons on black background, with white hearts changing to gray in different frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart changes from white to gray

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon changes color from white to gray across frames.

Composition

  • two horizontal text
  • centered heart icon
  • right-edge heart icon

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated text 'stin <333' across two horizontal rows. White heart icon appears centered between the rows in one frame; a gray heart icon appears at right edge of lower row in another frame. Text and heart positions remain fixed while heart color changes from white to gray.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart icons on black background, with white hearts changing to gray in different frames.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801091606471386036748

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text stin <333
  • white heart gray heart animation
  • black background pixel hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two horizontal text rows

Visible Text

  • stin <333

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • 'stin <333'
  • white hearts
  • gray hearts
  • centered heart
  • right-edge heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801091606471386036748
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
574 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac433cbdeb6c8362668c0221892b98713632cae9d28bb7d56a76fba6145ed397.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
ac433cbdeb6c8362
SHA-256
ac433cbdeb6c8362668c0221892b98713632cae9d28bb7d56a76fba6145ed397
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090443

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915735onnx/unsafe0.090443onnx/nsfw0.050666onnx/nsfl0.039777
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Pixelated text and heart icons on black background, with white hearts changing to gray in different frames.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:04 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,202 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 605

Review tags

  • heart color change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart changes from white to gray (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart color change

Animation

  • heart changes from white to gray

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon changes color from white to gray across frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two horizontal text
  • centered heart icon
  • right-edge heart icon

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated text 'stin <333' across two horizontal rows. White heart icon appears centered between the rows in one frame; a gray heart icon appears at right edge of lower row in another frame. Text and heart positions remain fixed while heart color changes from white to gray.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart icons on black background, with white hearts changing to gray in different frames.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801091606471386036748

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text stin <333
  • white heart gray heart animation
  • black background pixel hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two horizontal text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • stin <333

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • 'stin <333'
  • white hearts
  • gray hearts
  • centered heart
  • right-edge heart
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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
200801091606471386036748
Archive entry
200801091606471386036748.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801091606471386036748.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801091606471386036748.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016