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Red background with black heart shapes and white text reading 'Rafi', '<3', and 'Ariel' in pixelated font.

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Red background with black heart shapes and white text reading 'Rafi', '<3', and 'Ariel' in pixelated font.

Red background with black heart shapes and white text reading 'Rafi', '<3', and 'Ariel' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical
  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

Red background with repeating black heart shapes. White pixelated text: 'Rafi' (top), '<3' (middle), 'Ariel' (bottom). Text and hearts arranged in vertical columns. Pixelated font style. No visible animation changes. Text is legible. Background is solid red. Heart shapes are uniform. Text alignment is consistent across columns.

Description

  • Red background with black heart shapes and white text reading 'Rafi', '<3', and 'Ariel' in pixelated font.

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

  • red background black hearts white text
  • Rafi <3 Ariel pixelated
  • vertical hearts text
  • affectionate pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical columns hearts text

Visible Text

  • Rafi
  • <3
  • Ariel

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black hearts
  • white text
  • Rafi
  • <3
  • Ariel
  • pixelated font
  • vertical
  • solid red
  • uniform hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708120917271254316028
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
931 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c46156c99b14b60209c8a8d436e4f88c6cbc03136935e7fc53fc4e6d846f3077.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
c46156c99b14b602
SHA-256
c46156c99b14b60209c8a8d436e4f88c6cbc03136935e7fc53fc4e6d846f3077
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071536

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with black heart shapes and white text reading 'Rafi', '<3', and 'Ariel' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,745 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical
  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

Red background with repeating black heart shapes. White pixelated text: 'Rafi' (top), '<3' (middle), 'Ariel' (bottom). Text and hearts arranged in vertical columns. Pixelated font style. No visible animation changes. Text is legible. Background is solid red. Heart shapes are uniform. Text alignment is consistent across columns.

Description

  • Red background with black heart shapes and white text reading 'Rafi', '<3', and 'Ariel' in pixelated font.

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black hearts white text
  • Rafi <3 Ariel pixelated
  • vertical hearts text
  • affectionate pixel art

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical columns hearts text

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • Rafi
  • <3
  • Ariel

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black hearts
  • white text
  • Rafi
  • <3
  • Ariel
  • pixelated font
  • vertical
  • solid red
  • uniform hearts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:20 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708120917271254316028
Archive entry
200708120917271254316028.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708120917271254316028.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708120917271254316028.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016