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A static image divided into four quadrants with a heart symbol and pixelated text fragments.

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A static image divided into four quadrants with a heart symbol and pixelated text fragments.

A static image divided into four quadrants with a heart symbol and pixelated text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left heart, top-right text, bottom-left text, bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The top-left quadrant shows a gray, pixelated heart shape on a white background. The top-right quadrant contains the words 'writing..' and 'life..' in white pixelated font on black. The bottom-left quadrant displays 'they all me an the' and 's are' in white pixelated text on black. The bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray with no visible content.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants with a heart symbol and pixelated text fragments.

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
  • 20071002174559246295260

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray heart pixelated text four quadrants
  • writing life they all me an the s are
  • pixelated white black gray
  • heart symbol text fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid layout white black gray

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • writing..
  • life..
  • they all me an the
  • s are

Wordwall

  • gray heart
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • white background top-left
  • black background top-right
  • black background bottom-left
  • light gray background bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071002174559246295260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba62f7e4815eedf305355556481a27d5dac609b34aa395aedf882d82e1068715.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
ba62f7e4815eedf3
SHA-256
ba62f7e4815eedf305355556481a27d5dac609b34aa395aedf882d82e1068715
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084215

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image divided into four quadrants with a heart symbol and pixelated text fragments.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,979 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left heart, top-right text, bottom-left text, bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The top-left quadrant shows a gray, pixelated heart shape on a white background. The top-right quadrant contains the words 'writing..' and 'life..' in white pixelated font on black. The bottom-left quadrant displays 'they all me an the' and 's are' in white pixelated text on black. The bottom-right quadrant is solid light gray with no visible content.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants with a heart symbol and pixelated text fragments.

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
  • 20071002174559246295260

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray heart pixelated text four quadrants
  • writing life they all me an the s are
  • pixelated white black gray
  • heart symbol text fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid layout white black gray

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • writing..
  • life..
  • they all me an the
  • s are

Wordwall

  • gray heart
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • white background top-left
  • black background top-right
  • black background bottom-left
  • light gray background bottom-right
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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
20071002174559246295260
Archive entry
20071002174559246295260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20071002174559246295260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071002174559246295260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016