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Pixelated blue background with white 'Char' text and pink heart symbols in various arrangements.

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Pixelated blue background with white 'Char' text and pink heart symbols in various arrangements.

Pixelated blue background with white 'Char' text and pink heart symbols in various arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hearts appear in different quantities and positions across frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts in various quantities and positions change across frames while the background and text remain static.

Composition

  • text scattered across background
  • hearts in vertical stacks
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image features a solid blue background with multiple instances of the white text 'Char' in a pixelated font. Scattered across the blue background are pink heart symbols in varying quantities and arrangements: single hearts, pairs, and vertical stacks of three or four hearts. A gray rectangular shape appears in the bottom-right corner. The visual style is consistent with early digital graphics, using limited color palettes and pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with white 'Char' text and pink heart symbols in various arrangements.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink hearts white text
  • pixelated hearts text blue
  • char text pink hearts blue
  • hearts text blue background
  • blue background char hearts
  • pink hearts char text
  • pixelated blue char hearts
  • char hearts blue background

Objects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • Char

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white 'Char' text
  • pink heart symbols
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • multiple 'Char' instances
  • heart arrangements
  • solid color background
  • limited color palette
  • early digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070727080253944236157
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
334 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e1928b34b3af03c188439204147e856e35fb07017b91398fa73976ae5dbb967f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
e1928b34b3af03c1
SHA-256
e1928b34b3af03c188439204147e856e35fb07017b91398fa73976ae5dbb967f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123298

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue background with white 'Char' text and pink heart symbols in various arrangements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,401 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 726

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • hearts appear in different quantities and positions across frames

Animation Summary

  • Hearts in various quantities and positions change across frames while the background and text remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • text scattered across background
  • hearts in vertical stacks
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image features a solid blue background with multiple instances of the white text 'Char' in a pixelated font. Scattered across the blue background are pink heart symbols in varying quantities and arrangements: single hearts, pairs, and vertical stacks of three or four hearts. A gray rectangular shape appears in the bottom-right corner. The visual style is consistent with early digital graphics, using limited color palettes and pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with white 'Char' text and pink heart symbols in various arrangements.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pink hearts white text
  • pixelated hearts text blue
  • char text pink hearts blue
  • hearts text blue background
  • blue background char hearts
  • pink hearts char text
  • pixelated blue char hearts
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Objects

  • hearts
  • text
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • Char

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white 'Char' text
  • pink heart symbols
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • multiple 'Char' instances
  • heart arrangements
  • solid color background
  • limited color palette
  • early digital graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070727080253944236157
Archive entry
20070727080253944236157.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070727080253944236157.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070727080253944236157.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016