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Pixelated image of a person with long hair and a bandana, with pink text reading 'HOTTIE', 'Alyssa', 'Johnny', and 'L-O-V-E <3' on a black background.

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Pixelated image of a person with long hair and a bandana, with pink text reading 'HOTTIE', 'Alyssa', 'Johnny', and 'L-O-V-E <3' on a black background.

Pixelated image of a person with long hair and a bandana, with pink text reading 'HOTTIE', 'Alyssa', 'Johnny', and 'L-O-V-E <3' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in four sections
  • centered plus sign
  • person on left
  • text on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with long, light brown hair and a light brown bandana, wearing a dark shirt. The background is solid black. Pink pixelated text appears in four distinct sections: 'HOTTIE' in the upper right, 'Alyssa' in the lower left, 'Johnny' in the lower left below 'Alyssa', and 'L-O-V-E <3' in the lower right. A pink plus sign is centered between 'Alyssa' and 'Johnny'. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long hair and a bandana, with pink text reading 'HOTTIE', 'Alyssa', 'Johnny', and 'L-O-V-E <3' on a 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long hair bandana
  • pink text HOTTIE Alyssa Johnny L-O-V-E
  • pixelated retro digital art
  • plus sign heart symbol
  • black background text layout
  • Alyssa Johnny L-O-V-E
  • HOTTIE plus sign
  • retro digital art pixelated

Objects

  • plus sign
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • HOTTIE
  • Alyssa
  • Johnny
  • L-O-V-E <3

Wordwall

  • person with long hair
  • bandana
  • dark shirt
  • black background
  • pink text
  • HOTTIE
  • Alyssa
  • Johnny
  • L-O-V-E <3
  • plus sign
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • solid black background
  • text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806180943062000462057
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f973d45c427367e744807a804c7334dd4f4f163d87ca39968fc39b7005595243.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
f973d45c427367e7
SHA-256
f973d45c427367e744807a804c7334dd4f4f163d87ca39968fc39b7005595243
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.051972

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 09:16 UTC
Run
1245
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with long hair and a bandana, with pink text reading 'HOTTIE', 'Alyssa', 'Johnny', and 'L-O-V-E <3' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,004 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 802

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • bandana (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • light brown
  • dark brown

Composition

  • text arranged in four sections
  • centered plus sign
  • person on left
  • text on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with long, light brown hair and a light brown bandana, wearing a dark shirt. The background is solid black. Pink pixelated text appears in four distinct sections: 'HOTTIE' in the upper right, 'Alyssa' in the lower left, 'Johnny' in the lower left below 'Alyssa', and 'L-O-V-E <3' in the lower right. A pink plus sign is centered between 'Alyssa' and 'Johnny'. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with long hair and a bandana, with pink text reading 'HOTTIE', 'Alyssa', 'Johnny', and 'L-O-V-E <3' on a 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pink text HOTTIE Alyssa Johnny L-O-V-E
  • pixelated retro digital art
  • plus sign heart symbol
  • black background text layout
  • Alyssa Johnny L-O-V-E
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  • retro digital art pixelated

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  • bandana
  • plus sign
  • heart symbol

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  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

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  • person

Visible Text

  • HOTTIE
  • Alyssa
  • Johnny
  • L-O-V-E <3

Wordwall

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  • bandana
  • dark shirt
  • black background
  • pink text
  • HOTTIE
  • Alyssa
  • Johnny
  • L-O-V-E <3
  • plus sign
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • solid black background
  • text layout
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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
200806180943062000462057
Archive entry
200806180943062000462057.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806180943062000462057.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806180943062000462057.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016