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Pixelated text and symbols on a black background with repeated phrases, heart icons, and stylized lettering.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a black background with repeated phrases, heart icons, and stylized lettering.

Pixelated text and symbols on a black background with repeated phrases, heart icons, and stylized lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "I WANT U BACK FROM HEAVEN!" in two identical vertical columns. Below each phrase is a white '<3' symbol followed by the word "SoTChMO" in mixed-case pixelated letters with a red heart icon replacing the 'O'. The left and right sides are mirror images of each other, showing no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a black background with repeated phrases, heart icons, and stylized lettering.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080604184033790172208

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I WANT U BACK FROM HEAVEN
  • SoTChMO heart icon
  • <3 symbol text
  • pixelated two text

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated two column text

Visible Text

  • I WANT U
  • BACK FROM
  • HEAVEN!
  • <3
  • SoTChMO

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • I WANT U BACK FROM HEAVEN!
  • <3 symbol
  • SoTChMO
  • red heart icon
  • two identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080604184033790172208
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
310 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2ba028e74fbce9f6e869ae9e9e5c03b0e48a81e6a2f12fb66ff35168fb3192a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
d2ba028e74fbce9f
SHA-256
d2ba028e74fbce9f6e869ae9e9e5c03b0e48a81e6a2f12fb66ff35168fb3192a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078669

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921626onnx/unsafe0.078669onnx/nsfl0.039385onnx/nsfw0.039284
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Pixelated text and symbols on a black background with repeated phrases, heart icons, and stylized lettering.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,661 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 657

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart icon (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome with accent color (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two vertical
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "I WANT U BACK FROM HEAVEN!" in two identical vertical columns. Below each phrase is a white '<3' symbol followed by the word "SoTChMO" in mixed-case pixelated letters with a red heart icon replacing the 'O'. The left and right sides are mirror images of each other, showing no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a black background with repeated phrases, heart icons, and stylized lettering.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080604184033790172208

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I WANT U BACK FROM HEAVEN
  • SoTChMO heart icon
  • <3 symbol text
  • pixelated two text

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated two column text

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • monochrome with accent color

Visible Text

  • I WANT U
  • BACK FROM
  • HEAVEN!
  • <3
  • SoTChMO

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • I WANT U BACK FROM HEAVEN!
  • <3 symbol
  • SoTChMO
  • red heart icon
  • two identical
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080604184033790172208
Archive entry
20080604184033790172208.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080604184033790172208.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080604184033790172208.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016