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Red heart shapes with pixelated edges appear in a , accompanied by repeated text above and below each heart

Red heart shapes with pixelated edges appear in a , accompanied by repeated text above and below each heart. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Animation Summary

The hearts in the bottom are slightly larger than the hearts in the top . The text above the top and below the bottom remains consistent across observations

Composition

  • text above and below hearts

Dense Caption

Four red heart shapes with pixelated edges are arranged in a 2x2 grid on a white background. Above the top row of hearts and below the bottom row of hearts, the text 'mlcc iou vm' repeats horizontally. The hearts in the bottom row are slightly larger than the hearts in the top row. The text above the top row is positioned directly above the top-left heart, and the text below the bottom row is positioned directly below the bottom-left heart. The text is rendered in a pixelated font matching the heart shapes. The hearts are solid red with no internal details or gradients. The background is solid white with no visible texture or patterns. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • Red heart shapes with pixelated edges appear in a , accompanied by repeated text above and below each 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pixelated text mlcc iou vm
  • pixelated hearts white background
  • red hearts text mlcc iou vm
  • low-resolution red heart text mlcc iou vm
  • red heart shapes pixelated font mlcc iou vm

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red heart shapes with pixelated edges appear in a grid, accompanied by repeated text above and below each heart.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The hearts in the bottom row are slightly larger than the hearts in the top row. The text above the top row and below the bottom row remains consistent across observations.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid red hearts text mlcc iou vm

Visible Text

  • mlcc iou vm

Wordwall

  • red heart shapes
  • pixelated edges
  • white background
  • text 'mlcc iou vm'
  • repeated text
  • solid red hearts
  • low-resolution graphics
  • pixelated font
  • four hearts

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810092013291970380392
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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/cf/cf87fcec826d4cfee657d5a2eceb678b9e86fa6d95161d146d35fec11c85d29a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
cf87fcec826d4cfe
SHA-256
cf87fcec826d4cfee657d5a2eceb678b9e86fa6d95161d146d35fec11c85d29a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079331

OpenAI category scores

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Red heart shapes with pixelated edges appear in a , accompanied by repeated text above and below each heart

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,900 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 773

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • red heart shapes (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

The hearts in the bottom are slightly larger than the hearts in the top . The text above the top and below the bottom remains consistent across observations

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • text above and below hearts

Dense Caption

Four red heart shapes with pixelated edges are arranged in a 2x2 grid on a white background. Above the top row of hearts and below the bottom row of hearts, the text 'mlcc iou vm' repeats horizontally. The hearts in the bottom row are slightly larger than the hearts in the top row. The text above the top row is positioned directly above the top-left heart, and the text below the bottom row is positioned directly below the bottom-left heart. The text is rendered in a pixelated font matching the heart shapes. The hearts are solid red with no internal details or gradients. The background is solid white with no visible texture or patterns. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • Red heart shapes with pixelated edges appear in a , accompanied by repeated text above and below each 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

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  • pixelated hearts white background
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  • low-resolution red heart text mlcc iou vm
  • red heart shapes pixelated font mlcc iou vm

Objects

  • red heart shapes

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: The hearts in the bottom row are slightly larger than the hearts in the top row. The text above the top row and below the bottom row remains consistent across observations.
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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid red hearts text mlcc iou vm

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • red heart shapes

Visible Text

  • mlcc iou vm

Wordwall

  • red heart shapes
  • pixelated edges
  • white background
  • text 'mlcc iou vm'
  • repeated text
  • solid red hearts
  • low-resolution graphics
  • pixelated font
  • four hearts
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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
200810092013291970380392
Archive entry
200810092013291970380392.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810092013291970380392.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810092013291970380392.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016