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Pixelated icon with pink text and a white heart symbol on black background.

Pixelated icon with pink text and a white heart symbol on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central heart above text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical text blocks flanking central symbol

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated text in bright pink: 'i', 'love', 'Nick', '3.13.08'. A white, pixelated heart symbol appears above the left side of the text block. The same elements repeat identically to the right of the central heart symbol. Text uses a retro digital font with rounded edges and uniform spacing between characters.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink text and a white heart symbol on black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Nick (person)

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

  • Nick

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love Nick 3.13.08
  • pink text heart symbol
  • pixelated retro digital icon
  • black background pink white

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • Nick
  • 3.13.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nick

Wordwall

  • black background
  • bright pink text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • retro digital font
  • text 'i love Nick 3.13.08'
  • repeated layout
  • rounded character edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080414171119786788664
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
240 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/398f878a92a55ac3b076d64623d78ce7993bcf0c57f53e498ac045dd08dca827.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
398f878a92a55ac3
SHA-256
398f878a92a55ac3b076d64623d78ce7993bcf0c57f53e498ac045dd08dca827
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118146

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with pink text and a white heart symbol on black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 04:08 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,105 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 596

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • bright pink
  • white

Composition

  • central heart above text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical text blocks flanking central symbol

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated text in bright pink: 'i', 'love', 'Nick', '3.13.08'. A white, pixelated heart symbol appears above the left side of the text block. The same elements repeat identically to the right of the central heart symbol. Text uses a retro digital font with rounded edges and uniform spacing between characters.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink text and a white heart symbol on black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Nick (person)

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

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Nick

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love Nick 3.13.08
  • pink text heart symbol
  • pixelated retro digital icon
  • black background pink white

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text characters

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • Nick
  • 3.13.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nick

Wordwall

  • black background
  • bright pink text
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • retro digital font
  • text 'i love Nick 3.13.08'
  • repeated layout
  • rounded character edges
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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
20080414171119786788664
Archive entry
20080414171119786788664.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#20080414171119786788664.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080414171119786788664.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016