Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word 'Hope' in one frame.

Permanent icon record

Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word 'Hope' in one frame.

Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word 'Hope' in one frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Pink background. Cyan pixelated text reads "Hope dangles on a string." The word "Hope" has a white pixelated heart symbol positioned directly above it. Text is arranged vertically: "Hope" at top, followed by "dangles," then "on," then "a," and finally "string." All characters are blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word 'Hope' in one frame.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text pink background heart symbol
  • pixelated heart above hope
  • vertical cyan text string
  • heart symbol on pink background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Hope dangles on a string.

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol
  • text

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • pink background
  • white heart symbol
  • vertical text layout
  • pixelated font

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803160806091402254750
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
936 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fa7e8065e49d7f38d3d2f91ef40fa568d89d435dc5c57fffc678110928ba380c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
fa7e8065e49d7f38
SHA-256
fa7e8065e49d7f38d3d2f91ef40fa568d89d435dc5c57fffc678110928ba380c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115505

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.886727onnx/unsafe0.115505onnx/nsfw0.081639onnx/nsfl0.033867
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word 'Hope' in one frame.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,628 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 557

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Pink background. Cyan pixelated text reads "Hope dangles on a string." The word "Hope" has a white pixelated heart symbol positioned directly above it. Text is arranged vertically: "Hope" at top, followed by "dangles," then "on," then "a," and finally "string." All characters are blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word 'Hope' in one frame.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text pink background heart symbol
  • pixelated heart above hope
  • vertical cyan text string
  • heart symbol on pink background

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • Hope dangles on a string.

Visually Supported Entities

  • heart symbol
  • text

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • pink background
  • white heart symbol
  • vertical text layout
  • pixelated font
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "fa7e8065e49d7f38d3d2f91ef40fa568d89d435dc5c57fffc678110928ba380c",
  "description": "Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word \u0027Hope\u0027 in one frame.",
  "denseCaption": "Pink background. Cyan pixelated text reads \u0022Hope dangles on a string.\u0022 The word \u0022Hope\u0022 has a white pixelated heart symbol positioned directly above it. Text is arranged vertically: \u0022Hope\u0022 at top, followed by \u0022dangles,\u0022 then \u0022on,\u0022 then \u0022a,\u0022 and finally \u0022string.\u0022 All characters are blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.",
  "wordwall": [
    "cyan text",
    "pink background",
    "white heart symbol",
    "vertical text layout",
    "pixelated font"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "Hope dangles on a string."
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "heart symbol",
    "text"
  ],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [
    "heart symbol",
    "text"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "pink",
    "cyan",
    "white"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixel art",
    "low-resolution digital graphics"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "vertical text arrangement",
    "centered layout"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "playful",
    "whimsical"
  ],
  "animation": [
    "static image with no visible motion changes"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [
    "heart symbol",
    "text"
  ],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "cyan text pink background heart symbol",
    "pixelated heart above hope",
    "vertical cyan text string",
    "heart symbol on pink background"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "heart symbol",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: heart symbol"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixel art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixel art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "low resolution digital graphics",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: low-resolution digital graphics"
    },
    {
      "tag": "playful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: playful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "whimsical",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: whimsical"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pink",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pink"
    },
    {
      "tag": "cyan",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cyan"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "static image with no visible motion changes",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: static image with no visible motion changes"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "fa7e8065e49d7f38d3d2f91ef40fa568d89d435dc5c57fffc678110928ba380c",
        "description": "Pixelated cyan text on pink background with a white heart symbol above the word \u0027Hope\u0027 in one frame.",
        "denseCaption": "Pink background. Cyan pixelated text reads \u0022Hope dangles on a string.\u0022 The word \u0022Hope\u0022 has a white pixelated heart symbol positioned directly above it. Text is arranged vertically: \u0022Hope\u0022 at top, followed by \u0022dangles,\u0022 then \u0022on,\u0022 then \u0022a,\u0022 and finally \u0022string.\u0022 All characters are blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.",
        "wordwall": [
          "cyan text",
          "pink background",
          "white heart symbol",
          "vertical text layout",
          "pixelated font"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "Hope dangles on a string."
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "heart symbol",
          "text"
        ],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [
          "heart symbol",
          "text"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "pink",
          "cyan",
          "white"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixel art",
          "low-resolution digital graphics"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "vertical text arrangement",
          "centered layout"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "playful",
          "whimsical"
        ],
        "animation": [
          "static image with no visible motion changes"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [
          "heart symbol",
          "text"
        ],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "cyan text pink background heart symbol",
          "pixelated heart above hope",
          "vertical cyan text string",
          "heart symbol on pink background"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200803160806091402254750
Archive entry
200803160806091402254750.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803160806091402254750.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803160806091402254750.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016