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Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh' at bottom left and right, pink '<3' symbols above each name, green heart symbol centered top.

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Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh' at bottom left and right, pink '<3' symbols above each name, green heart symbol centered top.

Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh' at bottom left and right, pink '<3' symbols above each name, green heart symbol centered top. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered top heart
  • symmetrical left-right layout
  • bottom text alignment

Dense Caption

Dark blue pixel art background. Centered top: solid green heart shape made of blocky pixels. Below center-left: pink '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow with three dots) in 8x8 pixel grid. Below center-right: identical pink '<3' symbol. Bottom left: 'Josh' text in bright pink, 10-pixel height, blocky font. Bottom right: identical 'Josh' text. All elements static; no animation observed.

Description

Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh' at bottom left and right, pink '<3' symbols above each name, green heart symbol centered top.

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

  • Josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green heart pink Josh
  • pixel art '<3' symbols
  • dark blue background 'Josh'
  • symmetrical pixel icon

Objects

  • heart shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 8x8 grid layout

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Josh

Visually Supported Entities

  • Josh

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • green heart shape
  • pink '<3' symbols
  • 'Josh' text
  • blocky pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080418105411339782296
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
207 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31369041ea99742d0ffdbca972510b35235ccd9e9f669407a1480ac4c9102303.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
31369041ea99742d
SHA-256
31369041ea99742d0ffdbca972510b35235ccd9e9f669407a1480ac4c9102303
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083964

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh' at bottom left and right, pink '<3' symbols above each name, green heart symbol centered top.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,066 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 612

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • arrow like symbols (object, 0.80)
  • heart shape (object, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit aesthetic (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • symbol 3 (subject, 0.80)
  • text josh (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • centered top heart
  • symmetrical left-right layout
  • bottom text alignment

Dense Caption

Dark blue pixel art background. Centered top: solid green heart shape made of blocky pixels. Below center-left: pink '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow with three dots) in 8x8 pixel grid. Below center-right: identical pink '<3' symbol. Bottom left: 'Josh' text in bright pink, 10-pixel height, blocky font. Bottom right: identical 'Josh' text. All elements static; no animation observed.

Description

Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh' at bottom left and right, pink '<3' symbols above each name, green heart symbol centered top.

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

  • Josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green heart pink Josh
  • pixel art '<3' symbols
  • dark blue background 'Josh'
  • symmetrical pixel icon

Objects

  • heart shape
  • text characters
  • arrow-like symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 8x8 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • 8-bit aesthetic

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text 'Josh'
  • symbol '<3'

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Josh

Visually Supported Entities

  • Josh

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • green heart shape
  • pink '<3' symbols
  • 'Josh' text
  • blocky pixel art
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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
20080418105411339782296
Archive entry
20080418105411339782296.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080418105411339782296.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080418105411339782296.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016