Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost

Permanent icon record

Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost

Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the right…

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

  • top-right displays heart symbol
  • bottom-right displays asterisk-like symbol

Animation Summary

  • The top-right displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other remain unchanged

Composition

  • four
  • identical
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" across three lines. The top-left panel has no additional symbols. The top-right panel has a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner. The bottom-left panel has no additional symbols. The bottom-right panel has a small white asterisk-like symbol in the bottom-right corner. All panels share the same text and background color scheme.

Description

Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081001200319669628460
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i heart metro station
  • green pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol
  • four

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost panel.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The top-right panel displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right panel displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other panels remain unchanged.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: black square panels
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: bottom-right panel displays asterisk-like symbol
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel displays heart symbol
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Visible Text

  • I heart metro station

Wordwall

  • black square
  • white borders
  • green pixelated text
  • I heart metro station
  • small white heart symbol
  • small white asterisk-like symbol
  • four identical
  • three-line text layout

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
20081001200319669628460
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
368 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd8fb760cb45405def12c878d0724c3180aa872009f38c81a672104c2e1d2030.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
fd8fb760cb45405d
SHA-256
fd8fb760cb45405def12c878d0724c3180aa872009f38c81a672104c2e1d2030
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067398

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934107onnx/unsafe0.067398onnx/nsfw0.037908onnx/nsfl0.029490
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,847 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 794

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • asterisk like symbol (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • top right displays heart symbol (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right displays heart symbol
  • bottom-right displays asterisk-like symbol

Animation Summary

  • The top-right displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other remain unchanged

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • four
  • identical
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" across three lines. The top-left panel has no additional symbols. The top-right panel has a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner. The bottom-left panel has no additional symbols. The bottom-right panel has a small white asterisk-like symbol in the bottom-right corner. All panels share the same text and background color scheme.

Description

Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081001200319669628460
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i heart metro station
  • green pixelated text
  • heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol
  • four

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • asterisk-like symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading "I heart metro station" with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost panel.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The top-right panel displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right panel displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other panels remain unchanged.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: black square panels
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: bottom-right panel displays asterisk-like symbol
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel displays heart symbol
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I heart metro station

Wordwall

  • black square
  • white borders
  • green pixelated text
  • I heart metro station
  • small white heart symbol
  • small white asterisk-like symbol
  • four identical
  • three-line text layout
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "fd8fb760cb45405def12c878d0724c3180aa872009f38c81a672104c2e1d2030",
  "description": "Four identical black square with white borders display green pixelated text reading \u0022I heart metro station\u0022 with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost",
  "denseCaption": "Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading \u0022I heart metro station\u0022 across three lines. The top-left panel has no additional symbols. The top-right panel has a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner. The bottom-left panel has no additional symbols. The bottom-right panel has a small white asterisk-like symbol in the bottom-right corner. All panels share the same text and background color scheme.",
  "wordwall": [
    "black square",
    "white borders",
    "green pixelated text",
    "I heart metro station",
    "small white heart symbol",
    "small white asterisk-like symbol",
    "four identical",
    "three-line text layout"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "I heart metro station"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "text"
  ],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [
    "heart symbol",
    "asterisk-like symbol"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "black",
    "white",
    "green"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "text-based",
    "minimalist"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "four",
    "identical",
    "text-centered"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "neutral",
    "playful"
  ],
  "animation": [
    "top-right displays heart symbol",
    "bottom-right displays asterisk-like symbol"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "no upscaling or cropping detected",
    "quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading \u0022I heart metro station\u0022 with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost panel.",
    "quarantined animationSummary: The top-right panel displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right panel displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other panels remain unchanged.",
    "quarantined wordwall: four identical panels",
    "quarantined wordwall: black square panels",
    "quarantined composition: identical panels",
    "quarantined composition: four-panel grid",
    "quarantined animation: bottom-right panel displays asterisk-like symbol",
    "quarantined animation: top-right panel displays heart symbol",
    "quarantined retrieval: four panel grid"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
    "untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels"
  ],
  "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",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "2007-2016",
    "franksicons",
    "20081001200319669628460",
    "20081001200319669628460",
    "Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "The top-right displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other remain unchanged",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "i heart metro station",
    "green pixelated text",
    "heart symbol",
    "asterisk symbol",
    "four"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "text",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text"
    },
    {
      "tag": "heart symbol",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: heart symbol"
    },
    {
      "tag": "asterisk like symbol",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: asterisk-like symbol"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text based",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-based"
    },
    {
      "tag": "minimalist",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: minimalist"
    },
    {
      "tag": "neutral",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: neutral"
    },
    {
      "tag": "playful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: playful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "green",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: green"
    },
    {
      "tag": "top right displays heart symbol",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: top-right displays heart symbol"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "fd8fb760cb45405def12c878d0724c3180aa872009f38c81a672104c2e1d2030",
        "description": "Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading \u0022I heart metro station\u0022 with a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner of the rightmost panel.",
        "denseCaption": "Four identical black square panels with white borders display green pixelated text reading \u0022I heart metro station\u0022 across three lines. The top-left panel has no additional symbols. The top-right panel has a small white heart symbol in the bottom-right corner. The bottom-left panel has no additional symbols. The bottom-right panel has a small white asterisk-like symbol in the bottom-right corner. All panels share the same text and background color scheme.",
        "wordwall": [
          "black square panels",
          "white borders",
          "green pixelated text",
          "I heart metro station",
          "small white heart symbol",
          "small white asterisk-like symbol",
          "four identical panels",
          "three-line text layout"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "I heart metro station"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "text"
        ],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [
          "heart symbol",
          "asterisk-like symbol"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "black",
          "white",
          "green"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "text-based",
          "minimalist"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "four-panel grid",
          "identical panels",
          "text-centered"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "neutral",
          "playful"
        ],
        "animation": [
          "top-right panel displays heart symbol",
          "bottom-right panel displays asterisk-like symbol"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [
          "no upscaling or cropping detected"
        ],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
          "untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image pixels"
        ],
        "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",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "2007-2016",
          "franksicons",
          "20081001200319669628460",
          "20081001200319669628460",
          "Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "The top-right panel displays a white heart symbol while the bottom-right panel displays a white asterisk-like symbol; all other panels remain unchanged.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "i heart metro station",
          "green pixelated text",
          "heart symbol",
          "asterisk symbol",
          "four panel grid"
        ],
        "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
20081001200319669628460
Archive entry
20081001200319669628460.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081001200319669628460.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081001200319669628460.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016