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Pixelated text 'ILY nick' appears on both sides of a pink heart symbol against black background.

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Pixelated text 'ILY nick' appears on both sides of a pink heart symbol against black background.

Pixelated text 'ILY nick' appears on both sides of a pink heart symbol against black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ILY' above 'nick' repeated twice. Centered between the two text blocks is a solid bright pink pixelated heart shape. The left and right text sections are identical in layout, spacing, and font style. All elements use 8-bit style pixel art rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'ILY nick' appears on both sides of a pink heart symbol against 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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ILY nick pink heart pixel art
  • pixelated ILY nick heart icon
  • white text black background pink heart
  • 8-bit ILY nick heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ILY
  • nick

Visually Supported Entities

  • ILY nick text
  • pink heart symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • ILY nick repeated
  • pink heart symbol
  • pixelated heart outline
  • identical text blocks
  • centered composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071004134905870890450
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
209 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/3849ffdb93d9d3a6fb85258b628279bcf85dbbf885de962630dcf7e161d58ebe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
3849ffdb93d9d3a6
SHA-256
3849ffdb93d9d3a6fb85258b628279bcf85dbbf885de962630dcf7e161d58ebe
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093564

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Pixelated text 'ILY nick' appears on both sides of a pink heart symbol against black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,509 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 573

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • bright pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • symmetrical text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'ILY' above 'nick' repeated twice. Centered between the two text blocks is a solid bright pink pixelated heart shape. The left and right text sections are identical in layout, spacing, and font style. All elements use 8-bit style pixel art rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'ILY nick' appears on both sides of a pink heart symbol against 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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ILY nick pink heart pixel art
  • pixelated ILY nick heart icon
  • white text black background pink heart
  • 8-bit ILY nick heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • monospaced text

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ILY
  • nick

Visually Supported Entities

  • ILY nick text
  • pink heart symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • ILY nick repeated
  • pink heart symbol
  • pixelated heart outline
  • identical text blocks
  • centered composition
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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
20071004134905870890450
Archive entry
20071004134905870890450.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20071004134905870890450.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071004134905870890450.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016