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Pixelated text displays 'Melissa', '88', 'Chris', and '050708' with red heart and starburst symbols on black background.

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Pixelated text displays 'Melissa', '88', 'Chris', and '050708' with red heart and starburst symbols on black background.

Pixelated text displays 'Melissa', '88', 'Chris', and '050708' with red heart and starburst symbols on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

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

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in top-left view, starburst symbol appears in top-right and bottom-left views.

Composition

  • text arranged vertically
  • symbols positioned above or below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: 'Melissa' at top, '88' below it, 'Chris' below '88', '050708' at bottom. Red heart symbol above 'Melissa' in top-left view. Red starburst symbol above 'Melissa' in top-right view. Red starburst symbol below 'Chris' in bottom-left view. All other text and background elements identical across views.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'Melissa', '88', 'Chris', and '050708' with red heart and starburst symbols on black 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Melissa 88 Chris 050708 red heart
  • Melissa 88 Chris 050708 red starburst
  • text-based pixel art with symbols
  • white text black background red symbols

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Melissa
  • 88
  • Chris
  • 050708

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • red starburst symbol
  • text: Melissa
  • text: 88
  • text: Chris
  • text: 050708
  • heart symbol above Melissa
  • starburst symbol above Melissa
  • starburst symbol below Chris

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806142115221525844865
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2eb09a479366e95d614480cd18695cc91e6f8ab42de690309cc2789e6e72ee84.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
2eb09a479366e95d
SHA-256
2eb09a479366e95d614480cd18695cc91e6f8ab42de690309cc2789e6e72ee84
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089607

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text displays 'Melissa', '88', 'Chris', and '050708' with red heart and starburst symbols on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,006 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 725

Review tags

  • heart symbol appears (action, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol appears (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart symbol appears
  • starburst symbol appears

Animation

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

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in top-left view, starburst symbol appears in top-right and bottom-left views.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text arranged vertically
  • symbols positioned above or below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text: 'Melissa' at top, '88' below it, 'Chris' below '88', '050708' at bottom. Red heart symbol above 'Melissa' in top-left view. Red starburst symbol above 'Melissa' in top-right view. Red starburst symbol below 'Chris' in bottom-left view. All other text and background elements identical across views.

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'Melissa', '88', 'Chris', and '050708' with red heart and starburst symbols on black 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Melissa 88 Chris 050708 red heart
  • Melissa 88 Chris 050708 red starburst
  • text-based pixel art with symbols
  • white text black background red symbols

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol

Visible Text

  • Melissa
  • 88
  • Chris
  • 050708

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • red starburst symbol
  • text: Melissa
  • text: 88
  • text: Chris
  • text: 050708
  • heart symbol above Melissa
  • starburst symbol above Melissa
  • starburst symbol below Chris
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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
200806142115221525844865
Archive entry
200806142115221525844865.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806142115221525844865.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806142115221525844865.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016