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Black and white pixel art icon with four distinct text and symbol elements arranged in a non-symmetrical layout on a white background.

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Black and white pixel art icon with four distinct text and symbol elements arranged in a non-symmetrical layout on a white background.

Black and white pixel art icon with four distinct text and symbol elements arranged in a non-symmetrical layout on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • four distinct blocks
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon features four black rectangular blocks with white pixelated text and symbols on a white background. Top-left block contains '<3' symbol. Top-right block contains 'zombieecho' text. Bottom-left block contains 'ryminimeep' text. Bottom-center block contains '</3' symbol. Bottom-right block contains ' /('') /' symbol. All text and symbols are rendered in a retro pixel art style with sharp edges and no anti-aliasing. The layout is asymmetrical with blocks positioned at different corners and edges of the frame. The icon is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black and white pixel art icon with four distinct text and symbol elements arranged in a non-symmetrical layout on a white 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zombieecho ryminimeep
  • zombieecho <3
  • ryminimeep </3
  • zombieecho </3
  • zombieecho /('')/
  • ryminimeep /('')/
  • zombieecho <3 </3

Visible Text

  • <3
  • zombieecho
  • ryminimeep
  • </3
  • /('') /

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • zombieecho text
  • ryminimeep text
  • </3 symbol
  • /('') / symbol
  • black and white pixel art
  • asymmetrical layout
  • retro style
  • white background
  • four text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081222014448526436176
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
560 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e73a56cf2c73687fe3a311efca154ed84b19d1a9f90a3a7918f9f66727fbae6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
3e73a56cf2c73687
SHA-256
3e73a56cf2c73687fe3a311efca154ed84b19d1a9f90a3a7918f9f66727fbae6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106901

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Black and white pixel art icon with four distinct text and symbol elements arranged in a non-symmetrical layout on a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,498 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 744

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • four distinct blocks
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon features four black rectangular blocks with white pixelated text and symbols on a white background. Top-left block contains '<3' symbol. Top-right block contains 'zombieecho' text. Bottom-left block contains 'ryminimeep' text. Bottom-center block contains '</3' symbol. Bottom-right block contains ' /('') /' symbol. All text and symbols are rendered in a retro pixel art style with sharp edges and no anti-aliasing. The layout is asymmetrical with blocks positioned at different corners and edges of the frame. The icon is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black and white pixel art icon with four distinct text and symbol elements arranged in a non-symmetrical layout on a white 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zombieecho ryminimeep
  • zombieecho <3
  • ryminimeep </3
  • zombieecho </3
  • zombieecho /('')/
  • ryminimeep /('')/
  • zombieecho <3 </3

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • <3
  • zombieecho
  • ryminimeep
  • </3
  • /('') /

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • zombieecho text
  • ryminimeep text
  • </3 symbol
  • /('') / symbol
  • black and white pixel art
  • asymmetrical layout
  • retro style
  • white background
  • four text blocks
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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
20081222014448526436176
Archive entry
20081222014448526436176.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081222014448526436176.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081222014448526436176.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016