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Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top

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Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top

Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with two side-by-side versions: left version has heart replacing last 'A' in 'YAFFA', right version does not

Animation Summary

  • Two static versions of the same image side-by-side; left version has heart symbol replacing last 'A' in 'YAFFA', right version does not.

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • left-right comparison

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: 'YAFFA' in top row (left version includes a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the rightmost 'A'), 'WEISS' below it, then 'ROX', 'MY', and 'SOX'. All text is uppercase sans-serif with blocky pixels. Left side has heart; right side does not.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • YAFFA WEISS ROX MY SOX
  • heart symbol YAFFA
  • black background white text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top row.

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • YAFFA
  • WEISS
  • ROX
  • MY
  • SOX

Visually Supported Entities

  • YAFFA
  • WEISS
  • ROX
  • MY
  • SOX

Wordwall

  • YAFFA
  • heart symbol
  • WEISS
  • ROX
  • MY
  • SOX
  • black background
  • white pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071214120358579156638
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1001 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e710c2ee1cf8697ce9b86f527c33b2663eeb1f51ebd6a201caefd0ff307bfd2c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
e710c2ee1cf8697c
SHA-256
e710c2ee1cf8697ce9b86f527c33b2663eeb1f51ebd6a201caefd0ff307bfd2c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082445

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:50 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,668 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 627

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with two side-by-side versions: left version has heart replacing last 'A' in 'YAFFA', right version does not

Animation Summary

  • Two static versions of the same image side-by-side; left version has heart symbol replacing last 'A' in 'YAFFA', right version does not.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • left-right comparison

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: 'YAFFA' in top row (left version includes a white pixelated heart symbol replacing the rightmost 'A'), 'WEISS' below it, then 'ROX', 'MY', and 'SOX'. All text is uppercase sans-serif with blocky pixels. Left side has heart; right side does not.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • YAFFA WEISS ROX MY SOX
  • heart symbol YAFFA
  • black background white text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text and a heart symbol on black background, with one version showing the heart as part of the top row.

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • YAFFA
  • WEISS
  • ROX
  • MY
  • SOX

Visually Supported Entities

  • YAFFA
  • WEISS
  • ROX
  • MY
  • SOX

Wordwall

  • YAFFA
  • heart symbol
  • WEISS
  • ROX
  • MY
  • SOX
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
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Source semantic tags (2)
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
20071214120358579156638
Archive entry
20071214120358579156638.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071214120358579156638.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071214120358579156638.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016