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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in top-left section.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in top-left section. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • top text
  • middle symbol
  • bottom date

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: 'K.A.B' at top, followed by a small asterisk-like symbol, then 'm.m.m', and '8.9.08'. A solid red heart symbol overlays the right side of 'B' in 'K.A.B'. The same layout appears on both sides of the image with identical text elements but only one instance has the red heart.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in top-left section.

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

  • k.a.b m.m.m 8.9.08 red heart
  • red heart overlay k.a.b
  • pixelated text black background
  • m.m.m date 8.9.08

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • K.A.B
  • m.m.m
  • 8.9.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • K.A.B
  • m.m.m
  • 8.9.08

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • red heart symbol
  • K.A.B text
  • m.m.m text
  • 8.9.08 text
  • asterisk-like symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081110173148639636080
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc3222ffaf3fcf3886f90d071ed9ca38e71d33dcb2b2839a5c80b4c105fdd7e8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
fc3222ffaf3fcf38
SHA-256
fc3222ffaf3fcf3886f90d071ed9ca38e71d33dcb2b2839a5c80b4c105fdd7e8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078816

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in top-left section.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 615

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Actions

  • heart symbol overlays 'B' in 'K.A.B'

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • top text
  • middle symbol
  • bottom date

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: 'K.A.B' at top, followed by a small asterisk-like symbol, then 'm.m.m', and '8.9.08'. A solid red heart symbol overlays the right side of 'B' in 'K.A.B'. The same layout appears on both sides of the image with identical text elements but only one instance has the red heart.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol in top-left section.

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

  • k.a.b m.m.m 8.9.08 red heart
  • red heart overlay k.a.b
  • pixelated text black background
  • m.m.m date 8.9.08

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text elements
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • K.A.B
  • m.m.m
  • 8.9.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • K.A.B
  • m.m.m
  • 8.9.08

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • red heart symbol
  • K.A.B text
  • m.m.m text
  • 8.9.08 text
  • asterisk-like symbol
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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
20081110173148639636080
Archive entry
20081110173148639636080.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081110173148639636080.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081110173148639636080.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016