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Pixelated red text and symbols on black background with animated pink heart and starburst elements.

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Pixelated red text and symbols on black background with animated pink heart and starburst elements.

Pixelated red text and symbols on black background with animated pink heart and starburst elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in top-right quadrant
  • starburst symbol appears in bottom-left quadrant

Animation Summary

Heart symbol appears in top-right quadrant while starburst appears in bottom-left quadrant; both symbols alternate with empty quadrants across frames.

Composition

  • four identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated text reading "<333" above "1/16/09" above "<333" in four identical quadrants. Top-right quadrant has a static pink heart above the text; bottom-left quadrant has a static pink starburst above the text. Top-left and bottom-right quadrants show no additional symbols. All text and symbols are rendered in a retro digital style with sharp pixel edges. The heart and starburst elements animate between frames, appearing in one quadrant while absent in the other two quadrants of the same frame.

Description

  • Pixelated red text and symbols on black background with animated pink heart and starburst elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text 1/16/09
  • heart starburst animation
  • four quadrants red text
  • pixelated 1/16/09 animation
  • retro digital text heart
  • 1/16/09 <333 animation
  • pink heart starburst
  • text <333 1/16/09

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <333
  • 1/16/09

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • "<333" text
  • "1/16/09" text
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • four identical quadrants
  • retro digital style
  • animated symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090117043212944205947
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
993 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe8ebb992cb8ecb1a8fc9d42df7c157c563a7182c3e1cff49bd92bda1cede7bb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
fe8ebb992cb8ecb1
SHA-256
fe8ebb992cb8ecb1a8fc9d42df7c157c563a7182c3e1cff49bd92bda1cede7bb
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 09:22 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016311

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated red text and symbols on black background with animated pink heart and starburst elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,945 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,101, response 656

Review tags

  • heart symbol appears (action, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol appears (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol appears in top right quadrant (other, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol appears in bottom left quadrant (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart symbol appears
  • starburst symbol appears

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in top-right quadrant
  • starburst symbol appears in bottom-left quadrant

Animation Summary

Heart symbol appears in top-right quadrant while starburst appears in bottom-left quadrant; both symbols alternate with empty quadrants across frames.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • pink

Composition

  • four identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated text reading "<333" above "1/16/09" above "<333" in four identical quadrants. Top-right quadrant has a static pink heart above the text; bottom-left quadrant has a static pink starburst above the text. Top-left and bottom-right quadrants show no additional symbols. All text and symbols are rendered in a retro digital style with sharp pixel edges. The heart and starburst elements animate between frames, appearing in one quadrant while absent in the other two quadrants of the same frame.

Description

  • Pixelated red text and symbols on black background with animated pink heart and starburst elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text 1/16/09
  • heart starburst animation
  • four quadrants red text
  • pixelated 1/16/09 animation
  • retro digital text heart
  • 1/16/09 <333 animation
  • pink heart starburst
  • text <333 1/16/09

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • <333
  • 1/16/09

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • "<333" text
  • "1/16/09" text
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • four identical quadrants
  • retro digital style
  • animated symbols
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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
20090117043212944205947
Archive entry
20090117043212944205947.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090117043212944205947.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090117043212944205947.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016