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Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay

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Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay

Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • white space

Dense Caption

Blue 'mcb' text appears in three rows of three, each row containing three 'mcb' instances. Pixelated blue hearts are positioned between and below the 'mcb' text rows. The bottom-right corner features a solid gray overlay. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with blue and gray colors on a white background.

Description

  • Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mcb blue hearts
  • pixelated mcb
  • blue text gray overlay
  • low-resolution mcb hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a grid pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated mcb grid

Visible Text

  • mcb

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • mcb
  • pixelated hearts
  • white background
  • gray overlay
  • low-resolution
  • blue hearts
  • three
  • white space

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070816185239513147237
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
546 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ff3647aa212a3a9d141f705b2d63873e3f482e7879f7d77ca89d48e78dbc3b1b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
ff3647aa212a3a9d
SHA-256
ff3647aa212a3a9d141f705b2d63873e3f482e7879f7d77ca89d48e78dbc3b1b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087965

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,039 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 557

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • white space

Dense Caption

Blue 'mcb' text appears in three rows of three, each row containing three 'mcb' instances. Pixelated blue hearts are positioned between and below the 'mcb' text rows. The bottom-right corner features a solid gray overlay. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with blue and gray colors on a white background.

Description

  • Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mcb blue hearts
  • pixelated mcb
  • blue text gray overlay
  • low-resolution mcb hearts

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue 'mcb' text and pixelated heart icons arranged in a grid pattern on a white background with a gray corner overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated mcb grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • mcb

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • mcb
  • pixelated hearts
  • white background
  • gray overlay
  • low-resolution
  • blue hearts
  • three
  • white space
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:55 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070816185239513147237
Archive entry
20070816185239513147237.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070816185239513147237.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070816185239513147237.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016