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Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background, with purple lettering for names and terms.

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Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background, with purple lettering for names and terms.

Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background, with purple lettering for names and terms. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays pixelated purple text: 'sam <3', 'maddie !', 'girlfriends', 'guyfriends' in two identical vertical columns. Below each column are five white/pink heart symbols; left column has three white hearts, one light pink heart, and one white heart from left to right; right column has two white hearts, one light pink heart, and two white hearts from left to right. All text uses a retro 8-bit font style.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background, with purple lettering for names and terms.

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

Named Entities

  • sam
  • maddie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background purple text hearts
  • sam maddie girlfriends guyfriends
  • retro 8-bit heart symbols
  • two identical vertical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical vertical columns

Visible Text

  • sam <3
  • maddie !
  • girlfriends
  • guyfriends

Visually Supported Entities

  • sam
  • maddie

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • purple pixelated text
  • sam <3
  • maddie !
  • girlfriends
  • guyfriends
  • white/pink hearts
  • retro 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080426082539153583559
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
347 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1e/1ec777bf3e013d182b6d6d0ab8f203d6147724e59930dc4d2d7e98c88779e5ba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
1ec777bf3e013d18
SHA-256
1ec777bf3e013d182b6d6d0ab8f203d6147724e59930dc4d2d7e98c88779e5ba
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075503

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background, with purple lettering for names and terms.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:52 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,889 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 621

Review tags

  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • purple
  • white
  • light pink

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays pixelated purple text: 'sam <3', 'maddie !', 'girlfriends', 'guyfriends' in two identical vertical columns. Below each column are five white/pink heart symbols; left column has three white hearts, one light pink heart, and one white heart from left to right; right column has two white hearts, one light pink heart, and two white hearts from left to right. All text uses a retro 8-bit font style.

Description

  • Pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background, with purple lettering for names and terms.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • sam
  • maddie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background purple text hearts
  • sam maddie girlfriends guyfriends
  • retro 8-bit heart symbols
  • two identical vertical

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • sam <3
  • maddie !
  • girlfriends
  • guyfriends

Visually Supported Entities

  • sam
  • maddie

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • purple pixelated text
  • sam <3
  • maddie !
  • girlfriends
  • guyfriends
  • white/pink hearts
  • retro 8-bit font
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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
20080426082539153583559
Archive entry
20080426082539153583559.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080426082539153583559.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080426082539153583559.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016