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A pixelated image of a person wearing a dark beanie and black shirt against a red background with repeated text.

A pixelated image of a person wearing a dark beanie and black shirt against a red background with repeated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated portrait of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and short brown hair partially covered by a dark knit beanie. The individual wears a black crew-neck shirt and has a slight smile. The background is solid bright red. Text elements include "i luv" in lowercase pixels above the name "heathermae," which appears twice: once as partial text at top right ("heatherma") and fully repeated across the bottom as "heathermaeheathermae."

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person wearing a dark beanie and black shirt against a red background with repeated 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • heathermae

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i luv heathermae
  • pixelated portrait heathermae
  • red background i luv heathermae
  • text-heavy buddy icon

Uncertain Text

  • heatherma

Visible Text

  • i luv
  • heathermae

Visually Supported Entities

  • heathermae

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark knit beanie
  • black crew-neck shirt
  • light skin
  • blue eyes
  • short brown hair
  • slight smile
  • solid bright red background
  • text: i luv
  • text: heathermae

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802251456421172167057
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f6/f6678ed5c48adbda54b0a3507b401159912d590a77a1374d48ca3214ff7ca209.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
f6678ed5c48adbda
SHA-256
f6678ed5c48adbda54b0a3507b401159912d590a77a1374d48ca3214ff7ca209
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104825

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person wearing a dark beanie and black shirt against a red background with repeated text.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:54 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,441 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light skin
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated portrait of a person with light skin, blue eyes, and short brown hair partially covered by a dark knit beanie. The individual wears a black crew-neck shirt and has a slight smile. The background is solid bright red. Text elements include "i luv" in lowercase pixels above the name "heathermae," which appears twice: once as partial text at top right ("heatherma") and fully repeated across the bottom as "heathermaeheathermae."

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person wearing a dark beanie and black shirt against a red background with repeated 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • heathermae

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i luv heathermae
  • pixelated portrait heathermae
  • red background i luv heathermae
  • text-heavy buddy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Uncertain Text

  • heatherma

Visible Text

  • i luv
  • heathermae

Visually Supported Entities

  • heathermae

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark knit beanie
  • black crew-neck shirt
  • light skin
  • blue eyes
  • short brown hair
  • slight smile
  • solid bright red background
  • text: i luv
  • text: heathermae
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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
200802251456421172167057
Archive entry
200802251456421172167057.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802251456421172167057.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802251456421172167057.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016