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Red background with repeated "Sam" text and heart symbols in white and pink pixel art style.

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Red background with repeated "Sam" text and heart symbols in white and pink pixel art style.

Red background with repeated "Sam" text and heart symbols in white and pink pixel art style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • centered heart
  • corner hearts

Dense Caption

Red background with four identical vertical text blocks reading "Sam" above "<3" above "Sam" in black pixelated font. Three pixel hearts appear: one white heart centered below the text blocks, one pink heart in the top-right corner, and one pink heart in the bottom-right corner. The hearts are static and do not animate. The text blocks are arranged in a 2x2 grid with empty space between them. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with sharp edges and no anti-aliasing.

Description

  • Red background with repeated "Sam" text and heart symbols in white and pink pixel art style.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071128130241591469737
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art
  • Sam text hearts
  • white pink hearts pixel art
  • text hearts
  • pixel art hearts Sam text

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text hearts

Visible Text

  • Sam
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • "Sam" text
  • "<3" text
  • white heart
  • pink hearts
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • sharp edges
  • no anti-aliasing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071128130241591469737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
272 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be7b607f98b400b54d8089778b73134e61e255aa93ddf442b5c2425897ea2571.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
be7b607f98b400b5
SHA-256
be7b607f98b400b54d8089778b73134e61e255aa93ddf442b5c2425897ea2571
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092053

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with repeated "Sam" text and heart symbols in white and pink pixel art style.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,694 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 677

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • corner hearts

Dense Caption

Red background with four identical vertical text blocks reading "Sam" above "<3" above "Sam" in black pixelated font. Three pixel hearts appear: one white heart centered below the text blocks, one pink heart in the top-right corner, and one pink heart in the bottom-right corner. The hearts are static and do not animate. The text blocks are arranged in a 2x2 grid with empty space between them. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with sharp edges and no anti-aliasing.

Description

  • Red background with repeated "Sam" text and heart symbols in white and pink pixel art style.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071128130241591469737
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixel art
  • Sam text hearts
  • white pink hearts pixel art
  • text hearts
  • pixel art hearts Sam text

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Sam
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text
  • "Sam" text
  • "<3" text
  • white heart
  • pink hearts
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • sharp edges
  • no anti-aliasing
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:40 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
20071128130241591469737
Archive entry
20071128130241591469737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071128130241591469737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071128130241591469737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016