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Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts and 'HMC' text in four corners.

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Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts and 'HMC' text in four corners.

Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts and 'HMC' text in four corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four corners
  • centered hearts
  • edge hearts

Dense Caption

Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts. Four white 'HMC' text blocks in corners. Center has four hearts: top two white, bottom two gray. Additional hearts at top, bottom, left, and right edges. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts and 'HMC' text in four corners.

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

  • HMC hearts
  • black background hearts
  • white gray hearts
  • pixel art hearts
  • four corner HMC
  • heart
  • symmetrical hearts
  • static hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: heart grid
  • quarantined retrieval: heart grid

Visible Text

  • HMC

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white hearts
  • gray hearts
  • HMC text
  • four corners
  • center hearts
  • pixelated
  • static
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  • four gray hearts
  • heart shapes
  • text blocks
  • edge hearts
  • center four hearts
  • white text
  • gray text
  • heart arrangement
  • symmetrical
  • pixel art
  • no animation
  • four corner text
  • heart
  • black and white
  • heart symbols
  • HMC letters
  • heart positions
  • heart colors
  • heart layout
  • heart pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20111111024236919841224
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
644 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/cabff17bcebf1f0863f4c77a409376b9f3f5ac8f735a5605514e27918e295972.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
cabff17bcebf1f08
SHA-256
cabff17bcebf1f0863f4c77a409376b9f3f5ac8f735a5605514e27918e295972
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068170

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts and 'HMC' text in four corners.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:19 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,833 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 753

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four corners
  • centered hearts
  • edge hearts

Dense Caption

Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts. Four white 'HMC' text blocks in corners. Center has four hearts: top two white, bottom two gray. Additional hearts at top, bottom, left, and right edges. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Black background with white and gray pixelated hearts and 'HMC' text in four corners.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white gray hearts
  • pixel art hearts
  • four corner HMC
  • heart
  • symmetrical hearts
  • static hearts

Objects

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  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: heart grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • HMC

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  • HMC text
  • four corners
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  • heart shapes
  • text blocks
  • edge hearts
  • center four hearts
  • white text
  • gray text
  • heart arrangement
  • symmetrical
  • pixel art
  • no animation
  • four corner text
  • heart
  • black and white
  • heart symbols
  • HMC letters
  • heart positions
  • heart colors
  • heart layout
  • heart pattern
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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
20111111024236919841224
Archive entry
20111111024236919841224.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20111111024236919841224.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20111111024236919841224.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016