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Green pixelated text 'always point west' with a green heart symbol above the text on a black background.

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Green pixelated text 'always point west' with a green heart symbol above the text on a black background.

Green pixelated text 'always point west' with a green heart symbol above the text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in three lines
  • heart positioned above text
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'always point west' appears in three lines: 'always' on the top line, 'point' on the middle line, and 'west' on the bottom line. A green pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the text. The background is solid black. The text and heart are rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style typical of early digital graphics. The green color is bright and uniform across all text and symbol elements.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'always point west' with a green heart symbol above the text on a black background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated heart text
  • always point west pixel art
  • green heart above text
  • black background pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • always
  • point
  • west

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • three lines of text
  • pixel art style
  • bright green color
  • solid black background
  • text 'always point west'
  • heart above text
  • blocky rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808281742251199302107
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
246 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
c031ee13ad4f036f
SHA-256
c031ee13ad4f036fb9e420123369c867568a8d046fa069336db9f69d8d70cc0d
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081751

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Green pixelated text 'always point west' with a green heart symbol above the text on a black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,598 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • text arranged in three lines
  • heart positioned above text
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'always point west' appears in three lines: 'always' on the top line, 'point' on the middle line, and 'west' on the bottom line. A green pixelated heart symbol is positioned above the text. The background is solid black. The text and heart are rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style typical of early digital graphics. The green color is bright and uniform across all text and symbol elements.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'always point west' with a green heart symbol above the text on a black background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated heart text
  • always point west pixel art
  • green heart above text
  • black background pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • always
  • point
  • west

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • three lines of text
  • pixel art style
  • bright green color
  • solid black background
  • text 'always point west'
  • heart above text
  • blocky rendering
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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
200808281742251199302107
Archive entry
200808281742251199302107.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808281742251199302107.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808281742251199302107.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016