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Red heart outlines on black background with white text reading 'HansB + JamesK172' and '= BFF' inside a lower heart.

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Red heart outlines on black background with white text reading 'HansB + JamesK172' and '= BFF' inside a lower heart.

Red heart outlines on black background with white text reading 'HansB + JamesK172' and '= BFF' inside a lower heart. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three hearts arranged in -like layout
  • text positioned over and inside hearts

Dense Caption

Black background features three red pixelated heart outlines; top-left and top-right hearts are identical, bottom-left heart contains white text '= BFF'. Top section displays white text 'HansB' next to '+ JamesK172', all rendered in blocky font. Red hearts have consistent stroke width with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Red heart outlines on black background with white text reading 'HansB + JamesK172' and '= BFF' inside a lower heart.

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 hearts black background BFF text
  • HansB JamesK172 heart icon
  • pixelated buddy icon text
  • blocky font red heart BFF

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three hearts arranged in grid-like layout

Visible Text

  • HansB
  • +
  • JamesK172
  • = BFF

Visually Supported Entities

  • HansB
  • JamesK172

Wordwall

  • red heart outlines
  • black background
  • = BFF text
  • HansB + JamesK172 text
  • blocky white font
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20120714010229143072891
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
c49bdbe6ea1df068
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.097609

OpenAI category scores

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Red heart outlines on black background with white text reading 'HansB + JamesK172' and '= BFF' inside a lower heart.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:54 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,566 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 596

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three hearts arranged in -like layout
  • text positioned over and inside hearts

Dense Caption

Black background features three red pixelated heart outlines; top-left and top-right hearts are identical, bottom-left heart contains white text '= BFF'. Top section displays white text 'HansB' next to '+ JamesK172', all rendered in blocky font. Red hearts have consistent stroke width with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Red heart outlines on black background with white text reading 'HansB + JamesK172' and '= BFF' inside a lower heart.

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 hearts black background BFF text
  • HansB JamesK172 heart icon
  • pixelated buddy icon text
  • blocky font red heart BFF

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three hearts arranged in grid-like layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • HansB
  • +
  • JamesK172
  • = BFF

Visually Supported Entities

  • HansB
  • JamesK172

Wordwall

  • red heart outlines
  • black background
  • = BFF text
  • HansB + JamesK172 text
  • blocky white font
  • pixelated 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
20120714010229143072891
Archive entry
20120714010229143072891.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#20120714010229143072891.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20120714010229143072891.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016