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A static digital image displays cyan text and red heart symbols on a black background, with no visible animation.

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A static digital image displays cyan text and red heart symbols on a black background, with no visible animation.

A static digital image displays cyan text and red heart symbols on a black background, with no visible animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical heart stacks to left of text

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of identical text elements arranged in rows. Each element contains the name 'brandon' at the top, followed by an ampersand '&', then 'erin', and finally the date '7/1/08'. To the left of each row's text block is a vertical stack of red heart symbols; the number of hearts increases from one to four across successive rows. The background is solid black. All text uses a cyan, pixelated font style typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • A static digital image displays cyan text and red heart symbols on a black background, with no visible animation.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brandon erin 7/1/08 hearts cyan red black

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • brandon
  • &
  • erin
  • 7/1/08

Visually Supported Entities

  • brandon
  • erin

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • red heart symbols
  • black background
  • 7/1/08 date
  • brandon & erin names
  • vertical heart stacks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080913094256973085519
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c279448b0513b4d784a95d91af384e2e544d5ed9b4b0df4bfde0ee6d0aa65e54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
c279448b0513b4d7
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092707

OpenAI category scores

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A static digital image displays cyan text and red heart symbols on a black background, with no visible animation.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,133 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 587

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • vertical heart stacks to left of text

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of identical text elements arranged in rows. Each element contains the name 'brandon' at the top, followed by an ampersand '&', then 'erin', and finally the date '7/1/08'. To the left of each row's text block is a vertical stack of red heart symbols; the number of hearts increases from one to four across successive rows. The background is solid black. All text uses a cyan, pixelated font style typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • A static digital image displays cyan text and red heart symbols on a black background, with no visible animation.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brandon erin 7/1/08 hearts cyan red black

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • static

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • brandon
  • &
  • erin
  • 7/1/08

Visually Supported Entities

  • brandon
  • erin

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • red heart symbols
  • black background
  • 7/1/08 date
  • brandon & erin names
  • vertical heart stacks
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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
20080913094256973085519
Archive entry
20080913094256973085519.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080913094256973085519.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080913094256973085519.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016