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Black background with white plus signs and four identical text blocks reading 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font.

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Black background with white plus signs and four identical text blocks reading 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font.

Black background with white plus signs and four identical text blocks reading 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical text blocks arranged in two of two on black background with scattered white plus signs

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white plus signs of varying sizes. Four identical text blocks display 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font, arranged in two rows of two. The top-right block shows a small horizontal ellipsis (..) replacing the bottom right portion of '<3'. All other elements remain static across observations.

Description

  • Black background with white plus signs and four identical text blocks reading 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • mike

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

  • mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mike <3
  • light blue text black background
  • plus signs four blocks
  • horizontal ellipsis top-right block

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text blocks arranged in two rows of two on black background with scattered white plus signs

Visible Text

  • mike <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white plus signs
  • 'mike <3'
  • light blue text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical blocks
  • horizontal ellipsis in top-right block

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804121105432072356446
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/35cd93177da016f70738617cc177527e3e75a8bb8124e7b626e9c791ade5fb83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
35cd93177da016f7
SHA-256
35cd93177da016f70738617cc177527e3e75a8bb8124e7b626e9c791ade5fb83
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076398

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white plus signs and four identical text blocks reading 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:45 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,343 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 551

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • four identical text blocks arranged in two of two on black background with scattered white plus signs

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white plus signs of varying sizes. Four identical text blocks display 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font, arranged in two rows of two. The top-right block shows a small horizontal ellipsis (..) replacing the bottom right portion of '<3'. All other elements remain static across observations.

Description

  • Black background with white plus signs and four identical text blocks reading 'mike <3' in light blue pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • mike

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

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mike <3
  • light blue text black background
  • plus signs four blocks
  • horizontal ellipsis top-right block

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical text blocks arranged in two rows of two on black background with scattered white plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • mike <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white plus signs
  • 'mike <3'
  • light blue text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical blocks
  • horizontal ellipsis in top-right block
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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
200804121105432072356446
Archive entry
200804121105432072356446.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#200804121105432072356446.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804121105432072356446.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016