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Pixelated text displays 'sterling jackson' with a red heart above 'sterling', a '3' symbol, and white vertical bars on black background.

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Pixelated text displays 'sterling jackson' with a red heart above 'sterling', a '3' symbol, and white vertical bars on black background.

Pixelated text displays 'sterling jackson' with a red heart above 'sterling', a '3' symbol, and white vertical bars on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears on left side

Animation Summary

  • Heart appears on left side of 'sterling' text while right side remains unchanged.

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • heart above text
  • bars below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: 'sterling' (with red heart above 'g') and 'jackson' below it. Below 'jackson' is a white '3' symbol with left-pointing arrow, and beneath that are six white vertical bars with dotted bases. The left side shows a red heart above 'sterling' while the right side lacks the heart. Both sides share identical text and symbols below 'jackson'.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'sterling jackson' with a red heart above 'sterling', a '3' symbol, and white vertical bars on black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sterling jackson heart bars
  • heart above sterling text
  • 3 arrow vertical bars
  • pixelated text heart
  • red heart sterling jackson

Objects

  • heart
  • arrow

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • sterling
  • jackson
  • 3

Wordwall

  • red heart above 'sterling'
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • white '3' with left arrow
  • six vertical bars with dots
  • heart missing on right side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901121850421668591376
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
954 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 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
adfe13fc0d635004
SHA-256
adfe13fc0d6350042fc5b473ea41d1569c245c3ca67f6d4f3d051730f38cf545
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084000

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text displays 'sterling jackson' with a red heart above 'sterling', a '3' symbol, and white vertical bars on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,830 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 711

Review tags

  • heart appears on left side (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • arrow (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • bars (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears on left side

Animation

  • heart appears on left side

Animation Summary

  • Heart appears on left side of 'sterling' text while right side remains unchanged.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text stacked vertically
  • heart above text
  • bars below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: 'sterling' (with red heart above 'g') and 'jackson' below it. Below 'jackson' is a white '3' symbol with left-pointing arrow, and beneath that are six white vertical bars with dotted bases. The left side shows a red heart above 'sterling' while the right side lacks the heart. Both sides share identical text and symbols below 'jackson'.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'sterling jackson' with a red heart above 'sterling', a '3' symbol, and white vertical bars on black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sterling jackson heart bars
  • heart above sterling text
  • 3 arrow vertical bars
  • pixelated text heart
  • red heart sterling jackson

Objects

  • heart
  • bars
  • arrow
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • heart
  • bars

Visible Text

  • sterling
  • jackson
  • 3

Wordwall

  • red heart above 'sterling'
  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • white '3' with left arrow
  • six vertical bars with dots
  • heart missing on right side
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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
200901121850421668591376
Archive entry
200901121850421668591376.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901121850421668591376.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901121850421668591376.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016