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Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background with white lettering.

Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background with white lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart on right changes from solid to outline

Animation Summary

  • Heart on right animates from solid fill to outline.

Composition

  • two text blocks above centered 'BFFL'
  • two hearts below center

Dense Caption

Bright magenta background displays pixelated white text: 'carolyn' above 'carolanne', repeated twice horizontally. Below these, 'BFFL' appears centered between two identical pixelated hearts. The left heart is static; the right heart animates by changing from a solid fill to an outline with visible internal pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background with white lettering.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background white text pixelated hearts BFFL
  • carolyn carolanne heart animation

Visible Text

  • carolyn
  • carolanne
  • BFFL

Visually Supported Entities

  • carolyn
  • carolanne
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • carolyn carolanne
  • BFFL
  • heart symbol
  • animation: heart outline change

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071218144831899279677
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
238 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c1/c115c777ed3cd6a8cda830b157b912a9e531c3f2fafc526d2df8e91fab75a908.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
c115c777ed3cd6a8
SHA-256
c115c777ed3cd6a8cda830b157b912a9e531c3f2fafc526d2df8e91fab75a908
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075360

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background with white lettering.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:57 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,801 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 585

Review tags

  • heart animation outline transition (action, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated hearts (object, 0.80)
  • heart on right changes from solid to outline (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart animation (outline transition)

Animation

  • heart on right changes from solid to outline

Animation Summary

  • Heart on right animates from solid fill to outline.

Colors

  • magenta
  • white

Composition

  • two text blocks above centered 'BFFL'
  • two hearts below center

Dense Caption

Bright magenta background displays pixelated white text: 'carolyn' above 'carolanne', repeated twice horizontally. Below these, 'BFFL' appears centered between two identical pixelated hearts. The left heart is static; the right heart animates by changing from a solid fill to an outline with visible internal pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background with white lettering.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background white text pixelated hearts BFFL
  • carolyn carolanne heart animation

Objects

  • pixelated hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • carolyn
  • carolanne
  • BFFL

Visually Supported Entities

  • carolyn
  • carolanne
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • carolyn carolanne
  • BFFL
  • heart symbol
  • animation: heart outline change
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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
20071218144831899279677
Archive entry
20071218144831899279677.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071218144831899279677.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071218144831899279677.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016