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Four blue heart-shaped icons with light blue text 'tai', 'rtm', and '<3' displayed on black background, two with pixelated appearance and two with smooth appearance.

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Four blue heart-shaped icons with light blue text 'tai', 'rtm', and '<3' displayed on black background, two with pixelated appearance and two with smooth appearance.

Four blue heart-shaped icons with light blue text 'tai', 'rtm', and '<3' displayed on black background, two with pixelated appearance and two with smooth appearance. Animated 48×4…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • pixelated icons appear in first two observations
  • smooth icons appear in last two observations

Animation Summary

  • The icons transition from pixelated appearance to smooth appearance across observations.

Composition

  • centered hearts
  • text stacked vertically

Dense Caption

Four blue heart-shaped icons on black background. Each icon contains light blue text: 'tai' at top, 'rtm' below it, and two '<3' symbols beneath 'rtm'. Top-left and bottom-left icons have pixelated appearance; top-right and bottom-right icons have smooth appearance. All icons share identical text and layout. Pixelated icons show visible pixelation in text and heart shape; smooth icons show crisp text and heart shape. Icons are arranged in 2x2 grid.

Description

Four blue heart-shaped icons with light blue text 'tai', 'rtm', and '<3' displayed on black background, two with pixelated appearance and two with smooth appearance.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart icon
  • tai rtm <3
  • pixelated smooth heart
  • heart icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid heart icons

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • tai
  • rtm
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue heart
  • black background
  • light blue text
  • tai
  • rtm
  • <3
  • pixelated
  • smooth
  • identical text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911140605571292227710
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c96259ae5ed920ca9297b4dbda9fcd7deed93e985872662e8f20b7c12626372b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
c96259ae5ed920ca
SHA-256
c96259ae5ed920ca9297b4dbda9fcd7deed93e985872662e8f20b7c12626372b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081448

OpenAI category scores

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Four blue heart-shaped icons with light blue text 'tai', 'rtm', and '<3' displayed on black background, two with pixelated appearance and two with smooth appearance.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,556 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 701

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated icons appear in first two observations (other, 0.80)
  • smooth icons appear in last two observations (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • smooth (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • pixelated icons appear in first two observations
  • smooth icons appear in last two observations

Animation Summary

  • The icons transition from pixelated appearance to smooth appearance across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • centered hearts
  • text stacked vertically

Dense Caption

Four blue heart-shaped icons on black background. Each icon contains light blue text: 'tai' at top, 'rtm' below it, and two '<3' symbols beneath 'rtm'. Top-left and bottom-left icons have pixelated appearance; top-right and bottom-right icons have smooth appearance. All icons share identical text and layout. Pixelated icons show visible pixelation in text and heart shape; smooth icons show crisp text and heart shape. Icons are arranged in 2x2 grid.

Description

Four blue heart-shaped icons with light blue text 'tai', 'rtm', and '<3' displayed on black background, two with pixelated appearance and two with smooth appearance.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart icon
  • tai rtm <3
  • pixelated smooth heart
  • heart icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid heart icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • smooth

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • tai
  • rtm
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue heart
  • black background
  • light blue text
  • tai
  • rtm
  • <3
  • pixelated
  • smooth
  • identical text
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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
200911140605571292227710
Archive entry
200911140605571292227710.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911140605571292227710.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911140605571292227710.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016