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A grayscale pixelated icon featuring a large curved shape with a smaller heart shape below it and two small dots on either side, all on a white background.

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A grayscale pixelated icon featuring a large curved shape with a smaller heart shape below it and two small dots on either side, all on a white background.

A grayscale pixelated icon featuring a large curved shape with a smaller heart shape below it and two small dots on either side, all on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central curved shape
  • heart shape below left
  • dots on left and right

Dense Caption

The icon consists of a large, thick, curved grayscale shape resembling a stylized letter 'V' or a winged form, positioned centrally. Below and to the left of this shape is a smaller, thick, heart-shaped grayscale form. To the left of the heart shape is a single small grayscale dot. To the right of the large curved shape are two small grayscale dots arranged horizontally. All elements are rendered in grayscale with varying shades of black, white, and gray, set against a plain white background. The image is pixelated with visible dithering and blocky edges, indicating low resolution. No text or additional symbols are present.

Description

A grayscale pixelated icon featuring a large curved shape with a smaller heart shape below it and two small dots on either side, all on a white 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated icon
  • heart shape small dots
  • curved shape heart shape dots
  • pixelated white background icon
  • grayscale curved shape heart
  • small dots heart shape
  • pixelated heart shape dots
  • grayscale dots heart shape

Objects

  • heart shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • dithering

Subjects

  • heart shape

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • large curved shape
  • small heart shape
  • two small dots
  • single small dot
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007082209465797628108
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe8b1f31b536e32de4f62cef4c8989c2e862754db1d2d81786ccd35dd336a5a5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
fe8b1f31b536e32d
SHA-256
fe8b1f31b536e32de4f62cef4c8989c2e862754db1d2d81786ccd35dd336a5a5
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A grayscale pixelated icon featuring a large curved shape with a smaller heart shape below it and two small dots on either side, all on a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,095 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 666

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • small dots (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central curved shape
  • heart shape below left
  • dots on left and right

Dense Caption

The icon consists of a large, thick, curved grayscale shape resembling a stylized letter 'V' or a winged form, positioned centrally. Below and to the left of this shape is a smaller, thick, heart-shaped grayscale form. To the left of the heart shape is a single small grayscale dot. To the right of the large curved shape are two small grayscale dots arranged horizontally. All elements are rendered in grayscale with varying shades of black, white, and gray, set against a plain white background. The image is pixelated with visible dithering and blocky edges, indicating low resolution. No text or additional symbols are present.

Description

A grayscale pixelated icon featuring a large curved shape with a smaller heart shape below it and two small dots on either side, all on a white 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated icon
  • heart shape small dots
  • curved shape heart shape dots
  • pixelated white background icon
  • grayscale curved shape heart
  • small dots heart shape
  • pixelated heart shape dots
  • grayscale dots heart shape

Objects

  • curved shape
  • heart shape
  • small dots

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  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • dithering

Style

  • pixelated
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  • low resolution

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  • curved shape
  • heart shape
  • small dots

Wordwall

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  • white background
  • large curved shape
  • small heart shape
  • two small dots
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  • dithering
  • blocky edges
  • low resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:38 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
2007082209465797628108
Archive entry
2007082209465797628108.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#2007082209465797628108.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007082209465797628108.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016