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Pixelated black background with white text 'Chris Hoover' on left and right, and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left text.

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Pixelated black background with white text 'Chris Hoover' on left and right, and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left text.

Pixelated black background with white text 'Chris Hoover' on left and right, and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Source terms

Composition

  • left text
  • right text
  • heart above left text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'Chris' above 'Hoover' on left side and identical text on right side; white pixelated heart symbol positioned above left 'Chris' text; all elements rendered in 8-bit style with no visible animation or color variation; text uses blocky, rounded pixel font; heart symbol is incomplete with a small gap on left side; no additional objects or background details present.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with white text 'Chris Hoover' on left and right, and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white heart pixel art
  • Chris Hoover text
  • 8-bit heart symbol
  • black background pixel art
  • incomplete heart symbol
  • left and right text
  • pixelated Chris Hoover

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Chris
  • Hoover

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • Chris Hoover text
  • heart symbol
  • 8-bit style
  • incomplete heart
  • left text
  • right text
  • blocky font
  • rounded pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090402102525248586468
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
214 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
f7458ac2b8a8606d
SHA-256
f7458ac2b8a8606d6505aabb9258f6d95a706b9abec684c3a1fdbcc34dfcb701
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078495

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Pixelated black background with white text 'Chris Hoover' on left and right, and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,806 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white

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  • left text
  • right text
  • heart above left text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'Chris' above 'Hoover' on left side and identical text on right side; white pixelated heart symbol positioned above left 'Chris' text; all elements rendered in 8-bit style with no visible animation or color variation; text uses blocky, rounded pixel font; heart symbol is incomplete with a small gap on left side; no additional objects or background details present.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with white text 'Chris Hoover' on left and right, and a white pixelated heart symbol above the left 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Chris Hoover pixel art
  • white heart pixel art
  • Chris Hoover text
  • 8-bit heart symbol
  • black background pixel art
  • incomplete heart symbol
  • left and right text
  • pixelated Chris Hoover

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky
  • rounded pixels

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Chris
  • Hoover

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • Chris Hoover text
  • heart symbol
  • 8-bit style
  • incomplete heart
  • left text
  • right text
  • blocky font
  • rounded pixels
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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
20090402102525248586468
Archive entry
20090402102525248586468.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090402102525248586468.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090402102525248586468.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016