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A static pixel art image with a bright cyan background, featuring yellow text and a blue heart symbol.

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A static pixel art image with a bright cyan background, featuring yellow text and a blue heart symbol.

A static pixel art image with a bright cyan background, featuring yellow text and a blue heart symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart symbol above text

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background. Centered yellow pixelated text: 'Hommie's' on the top row, '4' in the middle row, and 'Life' on the bottom row. A blue pixelated heart symbol is positioned above and to the right of the left 'Hommi'e's' text. The text and symbol are rendered in a retro 8-bit style with visible pixelation. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a bright cyan background, featuring yellow text and a blue heart symbol.

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

  • cyan background yellow text blue heart
  • Hommie's 4 Life pixel art
  • 8-bit retro text heart
  • static pixel art cyan background

Visible Text

  • Hommie's
  • 4
  • Life

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow text
  • blue heart symbol
  • 8-bit style
  • pixelated text
  • Hommie's
  • 4
  • Life
  • retro aesthetic
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812311711531856932067
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
776 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ffa9c75d1f9d2e376f5e5e01c33143150440d669f2791e6fd744aadcfa612545.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
ffa9c75d1f9d2e37
SHA-256
ffa9c75d1f9d2e376f5e5e01c33143150440d669f2791e6fd744aadcfa612545
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
0.109895

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with a bright cyan background, featuring yellow text and a blue heart symbol.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,491 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 642

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart symbol above text

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background. Centered yellow pixelated text: 'Hommie's' on the top row, '4' in the middle row, and 'Life' on the bottom row. A blue pixelated heart symbol is positioned above and to the right of the left 'Hommi'e's' text. The text and symbol are rendered in a retro 8-bit style with visible pixelation. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a bright cyan background, featuring yellow text and a blue heart symbol.

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

  • cyan background yellow text blue heart
  • Hommie's 4 Life pixel art
  • 8-bit retro text heart
  • static pixel art cyan background

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Visible Text

  • Hommie's
  • 4
  • Life

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow text
  • blue heart symbol
  • 8-bit style
  • pixelated text
  • Hommie's
  • 4
  • Life
  • retro aesthetic
  • static image
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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
200812311711531856932067
Archive entry
200812311711531856932067.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812311711531856932067.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812311711531856932067.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016