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Blue pixelated whale with white teeth and a red heart above it, next to blue text reading "I LOVE KAROT" on black background.

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Blue pixelated whale with white teeth and a red heart above it, next to blue text reading "I LOVE KAROT" on black background.

Blue pixelated whale with white teeth and a red heart above it, next to blue text reading "I LOVE KAROT" on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left whale
  • right text
  • white background
  • black background

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated whale with white teeth, black eyes, and a small black mouth. Two light blue curved lines above the whale's head. A red heart icon to the right of the whale. On the right side of the image, blue pixelated text reads "I LOVE KAROT" on a black background. The whale is positioned on the left side of the image against a white background. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with distinct color blocks.

Description

  • Blue pixelated whale with white teeth and a red heart above it, next to blue text reading "I LOVE KAROT" on black background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue whale pixel art
  • I LOVE KAROT text
  • red heart icon
  • pixel art whale
  • blue text black background
  • whale white teeth
  • heart above whale
  • pixel art blue whale

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • I LOVE KAROT

Wordwall

  • blue whale
  • white teeth
  • black eyes
  • red heart
  • blue text
  • black background
  • white background
  • pixel art
  • I LOVE KAROT
  • curved lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070819210950573858886
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/ef97d388f59773d9284449109d6e87854c9817a5890dea89e43889f8ed2eaf21.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
ef97d388f59773d9
SHA-256
ef97d388f59773d9284449109d6e87854c9817a5890dea89e43889f8ed2eaf21
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084351

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue pixelated whale with white teeth and a red heart above it, next to blue text reading "I LOVE KAROT" on black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,012 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 681

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • left whale
  • right text
  • white background
  • black background

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated whale with white teeth, black eyes, and a small black mouth. Two light blue curved lines above the whale's head. A red heart icon to the right of the whale. On the right side of the image, blue pixelated text reads "I LOVE KAROT" on a black background. The whale is positioned on the left side of the image against a white background. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with distinct color blocks.

Description

  • Blue pixelated whale with white teeth and a red heart above it, next to blue text reading "I LOVE KAROT" on black background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue whale pixel art
  • I LOVE KAROT text
  • red heart icon
  • pixel art whale
  • blue text black background
  • whale white teeth
  • heart above whale
  • pixel art blue whale

Objects

  • heart

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • whale
  • heart

Visible Text

  • I LOVE KAROT

Wordwall

  • blue whale
  • white teeth
  • black eyes
  • red heart
  • blue text
  • black background
  • white background
  • pixel art
  • I LOVE KAROT
  • curved lines
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:16 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
20070819210950573858886
Archive entry
20070819210950573858886.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070819210950573858886.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070819210950573858886.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016