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Pixelated text displays 'BRIAN R.I.P' with a purple heart symbol and '<3' emoticon on black background.

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Pixelated text displays 'BRIAN R.I.P' with a purple heart symbol and '<3' emoticon on black background.

Pixelated text displays 'BRIAN R.I.P' with a purple heart symbol and '<3' emoticon on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • central heart icon between them

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text: 'BRIAN' at top, 'R.I.P' below it, and '<3' beneath that. A solid purple pixelated heart icon appears between two identical text blocks of 'BRIAN R.I.P <3'. The left block includes the purple heart; the right block does not. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'BRIAN R.I.P' with a purple heart symbol and '<3' emoticon on black background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

  • brian rip heart
  • brian rip emoticon
  • purple heart brian rip
  • rip text black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • BRIAN
  • R.I.P
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • BRIAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • BRIAN
  • R.I.P
  • <3
  • purple heart icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710051707171930046096
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
236 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 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
ca610718efcda35e
SHA-256
ca610718efcda35e45a61561d17dfc906712b775c5f746977c46bb7af2e5c31f
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 04:19 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090610

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Pixelated text displays 'BRIAN R.I.P' with a purple heart symbol and '<3' emoticon on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,655 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 587

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • memorial (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • central heart icon between them

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text: 'BRIAN' at top, 'R.I.P' below it, and '<3' beneath that. A solid purple pixelated heart icon appears between two identical text blocks of 'BRIAN R.I.P <3'. The left block includes the purple heart; the right block does not. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'BRIAN R.I.P' with a purple heart symbol and '<3' emoticon on black background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • somber
  • memorial

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brian rip heart
  • brian rip emoticon
  • purple heart brian rip
  • rip text black background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced text

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • BRIAN
  • R.I.P
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • BRIAN

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • BRIAN
  • R.I.P
  • <3
  • purple heart icon
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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
200710051707171930046096
Archive entry
200710051707171930046096.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710051707171930046096.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710051707171930046096.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016