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six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays

six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical left
  • centered text on icons

Dense Caption

Six pixelated icons arranged in a 2x3 grid. Left column: two identical blue eyes with black pupils; each pupil contains a white 'I' on a black background. Center column: top pink heart with white polka dots and the word "Heart" (capital H) in bold black text; bottom pink heart with white polka dots and the word "heart" (lowercase h) in bold black text. Right column: top brown basketball with visible seams and the word "bball" in bold black text; bottom green football with white stripes and the word "vball" in bold black text.

Description

  • six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue eyes with I text
  • pink hearts polka dots
  • basketball bball football vball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays.
  • quarantined style: grid-arranged
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical left column
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Style

  • text-overlaid

Visible Text

  • I
  • Heart
  • bball
  • vball

Visually Supported Entities

  • I
  • Heart
  • bball
  • vball

Wordwall

  • blue eyes
  • white polka dots
  • pink hearts
  • brown basketball
  • green football
  • text: I
  • text: Heart
  • text: bball
  • text: vball

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081030150337212190257
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed09ad4aba912451d1168d7ab6bfb2382307ad5db77e168508c23d63474416b1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
ed09ad4aba912451
SHA-256
ed09ad4aba912451d1168d7ab6bfb2382307ad5db77e168508c23d63474416b1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080576

OpenAI category scores

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six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,228 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 658

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • polka dots (object, 0.80)
  • seams (object, 0.80)
  • stripes (object, 0.80)
  • arranged (style, 0.80)
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  • text overlaid (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)
  • eyes (subject, 0.80)
  • football (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • brown
  • green

Composition

  • symmetrical left
  • centered text on icons

Dense Caption

Six pixelated icons arranged in a 2x3 grid. Left column: two identical blue eyes with black pupils; each pupil contains a white 'I' on a black background. Center column: top pink heart with white polka dots and the word "Heart" (capital H) in bold black text; bottom pink heart with white polka dots and the word "heart" (lowercase h) in bold black text. Right column: top brown basketball with visible seams and the word "bball" in bold black text; bottom green football with white stripes and the word "vball" in bold black text.

Description

  • six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue eyes with I text
  • pink hearts polka dots
  • basketball bball football vball

Objects

  • polka dots
  • seams
  • stripes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six distinct pixelated icons featuring an eye, two hearts, a basketball, and a football with text overlays.
  • quarantined style: grid-arranged
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical left column
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-overlaid
  • arranged

Subjects

  • eyes
  • hearts
  • basketball
  • football

Visible Text

  • I
  • Heart
  • bball
  • vball

Visually Supported Entities

  • I
  • Heart
  • bball
  • vball

Wordwall

  • blue eyes
  • white polka dots
  • pink hearts
  • brown basketball
  • green football
  • text: I
  • text: Heart
  • text: bball
  • text: vball
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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
20081030150337212190257
Archive entry
20081030150337212190257.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081030150337212190257.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081030150337212190257.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016