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Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two and three , plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center

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Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two and three , plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center

Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two and three , plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered hearts

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical black pixelated text icons reading 'la' are positioned in a 2x3 grid: top-left, middle-left, bottom-left, top-right, middle-right, bottom-right (six positions total). Two white pixelated heart shapes appear centered at the bottom of the image, one slightly left of center and one slightly right. All elements maintain consistent size and spacing across all frames.

Description

  • Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two and three , plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080415112923593766624
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background la icons hearts
  • pixelated la text hearts
  • buddy icon red white black
  • la heart pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; appears static despite 'animated' label in source hints
  • quarantined description: Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two columns and three rows, plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated la text grid hearts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • la

Wordwall

  • red background
  • 'la' text icons
  • pixelated hearts
  • white hearts on red

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080415112923593766624
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
193 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd97cf8456138a8061e0c8cbf678031b9b96edab6a78ee5dc79d139292eb6033.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
fd97cf8456138a80
SHA-256
fd97cf8456138a8061e0c8cbf678031b9b96edab6a78ee5dc79d139292eb6033
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
0.077065

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two and three , plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,587 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 727

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static animation (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text icons (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered hearts

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Four identical black pixelated text icons reading 'la' are positioned in a 2x3 grid: top-left, middle-left, bottom-left, top-right, middle-right, bottom-right (six positions total). Two white pixelated heart shapes appear centered at the bottom of the image, one slightly left of center and one slightly right. All elements maintain consistent size and spacing across all frames.

Description

  • Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two and three , plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080415112923593766624
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background la icons hearts
  • pixelated la text hearts
  • buddy icon red white black
  • la heart pixel art

Objects

  • text icons
  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; appears static despite 'animated' label in source hints
  • quarantined description: Red background with four black 'la' text icons arranged in two columns and three rows, plus two white pixelated heart symbols at the bottom center.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated la text grid hearts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static animation

Subjects

  • text icons
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • la

Wordwall

  • red background
  • 'la' text icons
  • pixelated hearts
  • white hearts on red
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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
20080415112923593766624
Archive entry
20080415112923593766624.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080415112923593766624.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080415112923593766624.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016