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Red background with cyan pixelated text and question marks above two white pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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Red background with cyan pixelated text and question marks above two white pixelated hearts at the bottom.

Red background with cyan pixelated text and question marks above two white pixelated hearts at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Composition

  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-center heart
  • bottom-right heart
  • question marks below text

Dense Caption

Red background. Two cyan pixelated 'i <333' text strings positioned top-left and top-right. Below each text string, a cyan pixelated question mark. Two white pixelated heart shapes at bottom center and bottom-right. All elements are static. Pixelation style consistent with early digital graphics. No visible animation changes. Text elements: 'i <333' (cyan), '?'. Symbols: hearts (white). Colors: red, cyan, white.

Description

  • Red background with cyan pixelated text and question marks above two white pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905161434581047006883

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cyan white hearts
  • i <333 question marks
  • pixelated hearts
  • cyan text red background

Visible Text

  • i <333
  • ?

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • white hearts
  • pixelated graphics
  • i <333 text
  • question marks
  • two hearts
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905161434581047006883
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
201 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f6/f680b7ec8cdafa04ff934a0669174190edf38f5b7beddc48dd8debce257a4db3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
f680b7ec8cdafa04
SHA-256
f680b7ec8cdafa04ff934a0669174190edf38f5b7beddc48dd8debce257a4db3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114108

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with cyan pixelated text and question marks above two white pixelated hearts at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,994 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 710

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Colors

  • red
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-center heart
  • bottom-right heart
  • question marks below text

Dense Caption

Red background. Two cyan pixelated 'i <333' text strings positioned top-left and top-right. Below each text string, a cyan pixelated question mark. Two white pixelated heart shapes at bottom center and bottom-right. All elements are static. Pixelation style consistent with early digital graphics. No visible animation changes. Text elements: 'i <333' (cyan), '?'. Symbols: hearts (white). Colors: red, cyan, white.

Description

  • Red background with cyan pixelated text and question marks above two white pixelated hearts at the bottom.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905161434581047006883

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cyan white hearts
  • i <333 question marks
  • pixelated hearts
  • cyan text red background

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • i <333
  • ?

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • white hearts
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  • i <333 text
  • question marks
  • two hearts
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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
200905161434581047006883
Archive entry
200905161434581047006883.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905161434581047006883.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905161434581047006883.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016