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A static pixel art icon with a bright pink background, featuring repeated text and symbols in black and white.

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A static pixel art icon with a bright pink background, featuring repeated text and symbols in black and white.

A static pixel art icon with a bright pink background, featuring repeated text and symbols in black and white. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two horizontal text lines
  • repeated content on both sides of the image

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. At the top center, a white pixelated heart symbol composed of blocky pixels. Below it, two identical horizontal lines of black pixelated text: "i love mike i love mike" on the first line, followed by "xoxoxox<(3 xoxoxox<(3" on the second line. All text uses lowercase letters with a single uppercase 'I' in "i love mike." The heart symbol is positioned directly above the center of the top text line.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a bright pink background, featuring repeated text and symbols in black and white.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2008062816352110204845
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background heart text mike xoxo
  • pixel art i love mike repeated
  • white heart black text pink background
  • mike xoxoxox<(3 pixel art

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love mike i love mike
  • xoxoxox<(3 xoxoxox<(3

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (text reference)

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated heart
  • black pixelated text
  • lowercase i love mike
  • xoxoxox<(3
  • repeated text lines
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008062816352110204845
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
249 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36cb4eb4d12e999b5258493af34d482a1d5f8fa9539d2d34a5971f0b9194af18.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
36cb4eb4d12e999b
SHA-256
36cb4eb4d12e999b5258493af34d482a1d5f8fa9539d2d34a5971f0b9194af18
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121717

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art icon with a bright pink background, featuring repeated text and symbols in black and white.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,624 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 700

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two horizontal text lines
  • repeated content on both sides of the image

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. At the top center, a white pixelated heart symbol composed of blocky pixels. Below it, two identical horizontal lines of black pixelated text: "i love mike i love mike" on the first line, followed by "xoxoxox<(3 xoxoxox<(3" on the second line. All text uses lowercase letters with a single uppercase 'I' in "i love mike." The heart symbol is positioned directly above the center of the top text line.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a bright pink background, featuring repeated text and symbols in black and white.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2008062816352110204845
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background heart text mike xoxo
  • pixel art i love mike repeated
  • white heart black text pink background
  • mike xoxoxox<(3 pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • i love mike i love mike
  • xoxoxox<(3 xoxoxox<(3

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (text reference)

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated heart
  • black pixelated text
  • lowercase i love mike
  • xoxoxox<(3
  • repeated text lines
  • pixel art style
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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
2008062816352110204845
Archive entry
2008062816352110204845.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#2008062816352110204845.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008062816352110204845.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016