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A four-quadrant displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds

A four-quadrant displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static four-quadrant with text and icon elements

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: solid white background with a large, textured gray heart outline; the heart has a dark gray border and light gray fill with visible pixelation. Top-right quadrant: pale yellow background with pink pixelated text reading 'proceed with'. Bottom-left quadrant: pale yellow background with pink pixelated text reading 'CAUTION'. Bottom-right quadrant: solid medium gray background with no visible content or text. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A four-quadrant displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709041048401822187309
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray heart pink text yellow background
  • proceed with caution pixelated text
  • four quadrant gray heart
  • pixelated heart text yellow gray backgrounds

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-quadrant grid displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; static four-quadrant grid with text and icon elements.
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid gray heart

Subjects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • proceed with
  • CAUTION

Wordwall

  • gray heart
  • white background
  • pale yellow background
  • medium gray background
  • pink pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • text 'proceed with'
  • text 'CAUTION'

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709041048401822187309
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d1d1e58c054ca09ddf3f78a784800e78a5fc2d6674987c398fc6487065d238c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
d1d1e58c054ca09d
SHA-256
d1d1e58c054ca09ddf3f78a784800e78a5fc2d6674987c398fc6487065d238c0
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000024

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 20:52 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000558

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000558falseself-harm0.000493falseself-harm/intent0.000218falsesexual0.000165falseviolence/graphic0.000012falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.794379

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922902onnx/unsafe0.794379onnx/nsfw0.753205onnx/nsfl0.041174
Enrichment records (1)
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A four-quadrant displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,684 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 601

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • medium gray (color, 0.80)
  • pale yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart icon (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static four-quadrant with text and icon elements

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • pale yellow
  • medium gray
  • pink

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: solid white background with a large, textured gray heart outline; the heart has a dark gray border and light gray fill with visible pixelation. Top-right quadrant: pale yellow background with pink pixelated text reading 'proceed with'. Bottom-left quadrant: pale yellow background with pink pixelated text reading 'CAUTION'. Bottom-right quadrant: solid medium gray background with no visible content or text. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • A four-quadrant displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709041048401822187309
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray heart pink text yellow background
  • proceed with caution pixelated text
  • four quadrant gray heart
  • pixelated heart text yellow gray backgrounds

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-quadrant grid displays a gray heart icon and pink pixelated text on pastel backgrounds.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; static four-quadrant grid with text and icon elements.
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid gray heart

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • proceed with
  • CAUTION

Wordwall

  • gray heart
  • white background
  • pale yellow background
  • medium gray background
  • pink pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • text 'proceed with'
  • text 'CAUTION'
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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
200709041048401822187309
Archive entry
200709041048401822187309.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709041048401822187309.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709041048401822187309.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016