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A static image with a cyan background displays orange pixelated text and a purple pixelated heart symbol.

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A static image with a cyan background displays orange pixelated text and a purple pixelated heart symbol.

A static image with a cyan background displays orange pixelated text and a purple pixelated heart symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • symmetrical text placement
  • heart symbol above text

Dense Caption

The image has a solid cyan background. On the left side, orange pixelated text reads 'helo', 'great', 'days', 'was', 'with you' in vertical order. A purple pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the 'helo' text. On the right side, identical orange pixelated text repeats the same words in the same vertical order. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, 8-bit style with no visible animation or additional elements.

Description

  • A static image with a cyan background displays orange pixelated text and a purple pixelated heart symbol.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background orange text purple heart
  • pixelated text with heart symbol
  • repeated text vertical layout
  • 8-bit style cyan background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • helo
  • great
  • days
  • was
  • with you

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • orange pixelated text
  • purple pixelated heart
  • text reads helo
  • text reads great
  • text reads days
  • text reads was
  • text reads with you
  • vertical text layout
  • 8-bit style
  • repeated text on both sides
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070822071225434609925
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
281 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/bade725c0479366706c25b2d8defea0af8f00bbb2b1d88660c91cd6c7b2a2f7f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
bade725c04793667
SHA-256
bade725c0479366706c25b2d8defea0af8f00bbb2b1d88660c91cd6c7b2a2f7f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100051

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

A static image with a cyan background displays orange pixelated text and a purple pixelated heart symbol.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:46 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,167 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 644

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • orange
  • purple

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • symmetrical text placement
  • heart symbol above text

Dense Caption

The image has a solid cyan background. On the left side, orange pixelated text reads 'helo', 'great', 'days', 'was', 'with you' in vertical order. A purple pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the 'helo' text. On the right side, identical orange pixelated text repeats the same words in the same vertical order. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, 8-bit style with no visible animation or additional elements.

Description

  • A static image with a cyan background displays orange pixelated text and a purple pixelated heart symbol.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background orange text purple heart
  • pixelated text with heart symbol
  • repeated text vertical layout
  • 8-bit style cyan background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • helo
  • great
  • days
  • was
  • with you

Wordwall

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  • orange pixelated text
  • purple pixelated heart
  • text reads helo
  • text reads great
  • text reads days
  • text reads was
  • text reads with you
  • vertical text layout
  • 8-bit style
  • repeated text on both sides
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:37 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)
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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
20070822071225434609925
Archive entry
20070822071225434609925.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070822071225434609925.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070822071225434609925.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016