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Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two on a black backdrop

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Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two on a black backdrop

Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two on a black backdrop. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

The image features a repeating pattern of solid red heart shapes on a black background. Four instances of the text 'FRIC' appear in white pixelated font: two in the upper portion and two in the lower portion. The hearts are arranged in a dense, uniform grid. The text 'FRIC' is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style consistent with early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with the text positioned in the upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right quadrants. The hearts are the only decorative elements present, forming a continuous pattern across the entire visible area.

Description

  • Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two on a black backdrop

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

  • red heart pattern white text FRIC
  • four FRIC instances black background
  • pixel art heart pattern
  • symmetrical FRIC text arrangement

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two rows on a black backdrop.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • FRIC

Wordwall

  • red heart pattern
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • four 'FRIC' instances
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • low-resolution graphics
  • repeating heart shapes
  • blocky font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707311740151485740377
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b6356bf5f1766cdbe41329d2584b30d98b240a3fa9e3ca9f175ca7fffc4c1637.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
b6356bf5f1766cdb
SHA-256
b6356bf5f1766cdbe41329d2584b30d98b240a3fa9e3ca9f175ca7fffc4c1637
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087282

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two on a black backdrop

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,265 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 712

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

The image features a repeating pattern of solid red heart shapes on a black background. Four instances of the text 'FRIC' appear in white pixelated font: two in the upper portion and two in the lower portion. The hearts are arranged in a dense, uniform grid. The text 'FRIC' is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style consistent with early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with the text positioned in the upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right quadrants. The hearts are the only decorative elements present, forming a continuous pattern across the entire visible area.

Description

  • Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two on a black backdrop

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pattern white text FRIC
  • four FRIC instances black background
  • pixel art heart pattern
  • symmetrical FRIC text arrangement

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red heart pattern background with four instances of the text 'FRIC' in white pixelated font, arranged in two rows on a black backdrop.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • FRIC

Wordwall

  • red heart pattern
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • four 'FRIC' instances
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • low-resolution graphics
  • repeating heart shapes
  • blocky font style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:58 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200707311740151485740377
Archive entry
200707311740151485740377.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707311740151485740377.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707311740151485740377.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016