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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two identical yellow text blocks and one pink heart symbol above them.

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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two identical yellow text blocks and one pink heart symbol above them.

A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two identical yellow text blocks and one pink heart symbol above them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above two side-by-side text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background. One pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical yellow pixelated text blocks side-by-side below the heart. Each block contains "meggg<3" on first line and "10/25/08" on second line. Text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation. No animation present.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two identical yellow text blocks and one pink heart symbol above them.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart yellow text black background
  • meggg<3 10/25/08 pixel art
  • two identical text blocks heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Visible Text

  • meggg<3
  • 10/25/08

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2008102617421798353480

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • two identical text blocks
  • retro digital font
  • "meggg<3"
  • "10/25/08"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008102617421798353480
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
936 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3a5a67bb75ccc4b090139eb1f4ab8393b05b2444b419f9784537c2772f6356d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
3a5a67bb75ccc4b0
SHA-256
3a5a67bb75ccc4b090139eb1f4ab8393b05b2444b419f9784537c2772f6356d9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123059

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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two identical yellow text blocks and one pink heart symbol above them.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,945 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 623

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered heart above two side-by-side text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background. One pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical yellow pixelated text blocks side-by-side below the heart. Each block contains "meggg<3" on first line and "10/25/08" on second line. Text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation. No animation present.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two identical yellow text blocks and one pink heart symbol above them.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart yellow text black background
  • meggg<3 10/25/08 pixel art
  • two identical text blocks heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text block

Visible Text

  • meggg<3
  • 10/25/08

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2008102617421798353480

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • two identical text blocks
  • retro digital font
  • "meggg<3"
  • "10/25/08"
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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
2008102617421798353480
Archive entry
2008102617421798353480.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#2008102617421798353480.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008102617421798353480.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016