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Pixelated text displays 'casey', 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan on black, with a red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'casey' on the left side.

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Pixelated text displays 'casey', 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan on black, with a red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'casey' on the left side.

Pixelated text displays 'casey', 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan on black, with a red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'casey' on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged vertically
  • heart symbol replaces letter
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Dense Caption

The image shows a static pixelated display with cyan text on a black background. The text reads 'casey' (with the 'y' replaced by a red heart symbol), 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan. The left side of the image contains the red heart symbol, while the right side shows the same text without the heart symbol. All text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'casey', 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan on black, with a red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'casey' on the left side.

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

  • cyan text black background
  • heart symbol replaces y
  • casey aaron ballard
  • <3 cyan text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • retro digital font
  • two text blocks
  • heart replaces letter

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • casey
  • aaron
  • ballard
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • casey
  • aaron
  • ballard
  • <3
  • heart replaces y
  • static display

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810011150571232117314
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
262 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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
c35e4eca02a09e85
SHA-256
c35e4eca02a09e85d83cc3359b8adcf172825bb881a2ec51af359fab219cd4ad
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
0.105620

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text displays 'casey', 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan on black, with a red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'casey' on the left side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,365 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 708

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • text arranged vertically
  • heart symbol replaces letter
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Dense Caption

The image shows a static pixelated display with cyan text on a black background. The text reads 'casey' (with the 'y' replaced by a red heart symbol), 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan. The left side of the image contains the red heart symbol, while the right side shows the same text without the heart symbol. All text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'casey', 'aaron', 'ballard', and '<3' in cyan on black, with a red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'casey' on the left side.

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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background
  • heart symbol replaces y
  • casey aaron ballard
  • <3 cyan text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • retro digital font
  • two text blocks
  • heart replaces letter

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • casey
  • aaron
  • ballard
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated font
  • casey
  • aaron
  • ballard
  • <3
  • heart replaces y
  • static display
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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
200810011150571232117314
Archive entry
200810011150571232117314.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810011150571232117314.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810011150571232117314.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016