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Pixelated text in pink and white on black background with animated heart and starburst effects.

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Pixelated text in pink and white on black background with animated heart and starburst effects.

Pixelated text in pink and white on black background with animated heart and starburst effects. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears then changes to starburst
  • starburst changes to dot cluster

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon changes to starburst, then starburst changes to dot cluster.

Composition

  • repeated text lines
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated lines of pixelated text: 'f.f.b.', 'a.a.f.', 'U.N.W.U.r', 'ilu <9999', '4/4/08'. Text is rendered in pink. First frame shows a white heart icon above 'f.f.b.'. Second frame replaces the heart with a white starburst of dots. Third frame shows a white dot cluster forming a circle around 'f.f.b.'.

Description

  • Pixelated text in pink and white on black background with animated heart and starburst effects.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804041927281227972507

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background
  • 4/4/08 ilu <9999
  • heart starburst dot cluster
  • U.N.W.U.r a.a.f. f.f.b.

Objects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • f.f.b.
  • a.a.f.
  • U.N.W.U.r
  • ilu <9999
  • 4/4/08

Wordwall

  • pink text
  • black background
  • white heart
  • white starburst
  • dot cluster
  • 4/4/08
  • ilu <9999
  • U.N.W.U.r
  • a.a.f.
  • f.f.b.

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804041927281227972507
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af2db0ecdb999bc773fda378ca1308e6d7073611cd99d5cfe8f83029e2184738.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
af2db0ecdb999bc7
SHA-256
af2db0ecdb999bc773fda378ca1308e6d7073611cd99d5cfe8f83029e2184738
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.169222

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text in pink and white on black background with animated heart and starburst effects.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 23:26 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,611 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 738

Review tags

  • heart changes to starburst (action, 0.80)
  • starburst changes to dot cluster (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dot cluster (object, 0.80)
  • heart icon (object, 0.80)
  • starburst of dots (object, 0.80)
  • heart appears then changes to starburst (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart changes to starburst
  • starburst changes to dot cluster

Animation

  • heart appears then changes to starburst
  • starburst changes to dot cluster

Animation Summary

  • Heart icon changes to starburst, then starburst changes to dot cluster.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text lines
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated lines of pixelated text: 'f.f.b.', 'a.a.f.', 'U.N.W.U.r', 'ilu <9999', '4/4/08'. Text is rendered in pink. First frame shows a white heart icon above 'f.f.b.'. Second frame replaces the heart with a white starburst of dots. Third frame shows a white dot cluster forming a circle around 'f.f.b.'.

Description

  • Pixelated text in pink and white on black background with animated heart and starburst effects.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804041927281227972507

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background
  • 4/4/08 ilu <9999
  • heart starburst dot cluster
  • U.N.W.U.r a.a.f. f.f.b.

Objects

  • heart icon
  • starburst of dots
  • dot cluster

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • animated

Visible Text

  • f.f.b.
  • a.a.f.
  • U.N.W.U.r
  • ilu <9999
  • 4/4/08

Wordwall

  • pink text
  • black background
  • white heart
  • white starburst
  • dot cluster
  • 4/4/08
  • ilu <9999
  • U.N.W.U.r
  • a.a.f.
  • f.f.b.
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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
200804041927281227972507
Archive entry
200804041927281227972507.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#200804041927281227972507.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804041927281227972507.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016