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Pink background with pixelated text 'hotter' in light pink, black text 'Lowe.' below it, and a yellow flame-like shape beneath the text.

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Pink background with pixelated text 'hotter' in light pink, black text 'Lowe.' below it, and a yellow flame-like shape beneath the text.

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text 'hotter'
  • centered text 'Lowe.' below it
  • flame shape beneath text

Dense Caption

The image features a solid pink background. At the top center, there is pixelated text reading 'hotter' in a lighter pink hue that matches the background but with higher contrast. Below this, centered horizontally, is black pixelated text spelling 'Lowe.' followed by a period. Underneath the text, there is a yellow and light orange pixelated shape resembling a flame or spark. The image has low-resolution pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pink background with pixelated text 'hotter' in light pink, black text 'Lowe.' below it, and a yellow flame-like shape beneath the text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Lowe

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

Named Entities

  • Lowe

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hotter Lowe flame pink
  • pink background text flame
  • pixelated hotter Lowe period
  • flame shape under text

Visible Text

  • hotter
  • Lowe.

Visually Supported Entities

  • Lowe

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • pixelated text
  • 'hotter' in light pink
  • 'Lowe.' in black
  • yellow flame-like shape
  • period after Lowe
  • low-resolution pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071218181906465771916
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d517e513060b31fd7788260d51709d0c737ac81928f23e92ea28e5e92ad1e187.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
d517e513060b31fd
SHA-256
d517e513060b31fd7788260d51709d0c737ac81928f23e92ea28e5e92ad1e187
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107302

OpenAI category scores

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Pink background with pixelated text 'hotter' in light pink, black text 'Lowe.' below it, and a yellow flame-like shape beneath the text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:01 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,778 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 620

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • flame like shape (subject, 0.80)
  • text hotter (subject, 0.80)
  • text lowe (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • light pink
  • black
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • centered text 'hotter'
  • centered text 'Lowe.' below it
  • flame shape beneath text

Dense Caption

The image features a solid pink background. At the top center, there is pixelated text reading 'hotter' in a lighter pink hue that matches the background but with higher contrast. Below this, centered horizontally, is black pixelated text spelling 'Lowe.' followed by a period. Underneath the text, there is a yellow and light orange pixelated shape resembling a flame or spark. The image has low-resolution pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pink background with pixelated text 'hotter' in light pink, black text 'Lowe.' below it, and a yellow flame-like shape beneath the text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Lowe

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

Named Entities

  • Lowe

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hotter Lowe flame pink
  • pink background text flame
  • pixelated hotter Lowe period
  • flame shape under text

Objects

  • flame-like shape

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • text 'hotter'
  • text 'Lowe.'
  • flame-like shape

Visible Text

  • hotter
  • Lowe.

Visually Supported Entities

  • Lowe

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • pixelated text
  • 'hotter' in light pink
  • 'Lowe.' in black
  • yellow flame-like shape
  • period after Lowe
  • low-resolution pixels
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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
20071218181906465771916
Archive entry
20071218181906465771916.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071218181906465771916.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071218181906465771916.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016