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Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh', and a green heart symbol between two identical left-facing brackets.

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Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh', and a green heart symbol between two identical left-facing brackets.

Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh', and a green heart symbol between two identical left-facing brackets. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered horizontal layout
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Dark blue solid background. Centered horizontal arrangement: left side shows pink pixelated '<3' bracket above pink pixelated 'Josh'; middle shows green pixelated heart; right side mirrors the left with another pink '<3' bracket above pink 'Josh'. All text and symbols use blocky 8-bit style pixels, no anti-aliasing. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh', and a green heart symbol between two identical left-facing brackets.

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

  • Josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • josh pixelated heart icon
  • pink josh dark blue background
  • <3 josh green heart
  • 8-bit josh icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Josh

Visually Supported Entities

  • Josh

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • <3 brackets
  • green heart symbol
  • pink pixelated text
  • Josh name
  • blocky 8-bit style
  • centered horizontal layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080418105318376445364
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
206 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/52ff7f4389ed84aeab37d7c7379176d02ff9074efffe45838a156f5353c4d72c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
52ff7f4389ed84ae
SHA-256
52ff7f4389ed84aeab37d7c7379176d02ff9074efffe45838a156f5353c4d72c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083799

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh', and a green heart symbol between two identical left-facing brackets.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,237 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 569

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • brackets (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • centered horizontal layout
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Dark blue solid background. Centered horizontal arrangement: left side shows pink pixelated '<3' bracket above pink pixelated 'Josh'; middle shows green pixelated heart; right side mirrors the left with another pink '<3' bracket above pink 'Josh'. All text and symbols use blocky 8-bit style pixels, no anti-aliasing. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with dark blue background, pink text 'Josh', and a green heart symbol between two identical left-facing brackets.

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

  • Josh

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • josh pixelated heart icon
  • pink josh dark blue background
  • <3 josh green heart
  • 8-bit josh icon

Objects

  • brackets
  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Josh

Visually Supported Entities

  • Josh

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • <3 brackets
  • green heart symbol
  • pink pixelated text
  • Josh name
  • blocky 8-bit style
  • centered horizontal layout
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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
20080418105318376445364
Archive entry
20080418105318376445364.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#20080418105318376445364.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080418105318376445364.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016