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Blue background with red pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the text.

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Blue background with red pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the text.

Blue background with red pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • symmetrical horizontal text sections

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical horizontal sections of red pixelated text: 'PATRIOTS<9' on first line, 'hell' second line, 'yeah' third line, 'bybhz' fourth line. Text is repeated side-by-side with no visible change between sections.

Description

  • Blue background with red pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background red text heart symbol
  • PATRIOTS<9 hell yeah bybhz
  • pixelated retro digital text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • PATRIOTS<9
  • hell
  • yeah
  • bybhz

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white heart symbol
  • red pixelated text
  • two identical horizontal sections
  • PATRIOTS<9
  • hell
  • yeah
  • bybhz

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080203100211739971058
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
988 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e2/e259aab0595d09ebada2efbd1ee7725200f26b54384d4c0ea265c985366c15df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
e259aab0595d09eb
SHA-256
e259aab0595d09ebada2efbd1ee7725200f26b54384d4c0ea265c985366c15df
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000455

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with red pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,526 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 586

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • symmetrical horizontal text sections

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical horizontal sections of red pixelated text: 'PATRIOTS<9' on first line, 'hell' second line, 'yeah' third line, 'bybhz' fourth line. Text is repeated side-by-side with no visible change between sections.

Description

  • Blue background with red pixelated text and a white heart symbol above the text.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background red text heart symbol
  • PATRIOTS<9 hell yeah bybhz
  • pixelated retro digital text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • PATRIOTS<9
  • hell
  • yeah
  • bybhz

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol
  • text blocks

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white heart symbol
  • red pixelated text
  • two identical horizontal sections
  • PATRIOTS<9
  • hell
  • yeah
  • bybhz
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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
20080203100211739971058
Archive entry
20080203100211739971058.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080203100211739971058.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080203100211739971058.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016