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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two blue 'michael' text labels and one pink heart symbol above them.

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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two blue 'michael' text labels and one pink heart symbol above them.

A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two blue 'michael' text labels and one pink heart symbol above them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image, no visible motion changes

Composition

  • centered heart above two text instances
  • horizontal alignment of text

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical instances of the word 'michael' rendered in blue pixelated font, horizontally aligned at middle height. One pink pixelated heart symbol positioned directly above both text instances, centered between them. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes. The heart has a hollow interior and is composed of solid magenta pixels.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two blue 'michael' text labels 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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue michael text pink heart
  • pixel art micheal heart
  • black background blue text heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • michael

Visually Supported Entities

  • michael

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • pink heart
  • pixel art
  • michael text
  • hollow heart
  • centered composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802211702191861712006
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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/56/561266c662581a8efabf64cc55c4812750f9e9387679e2e91156967c6c6b328f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
561266c662581a8e
SHA-256
561266c662581a8efabf64cc55c4812750f9e9387679e2e91156967c6c6b328f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108657

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two blue 'michael' text labels and one pink heart symbol above them.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,100 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 565

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static image no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image, no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart above two text instances
  • horizontal alignment of text

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical instances of the word 'michael' rendered in blue pixelated font, horizontally aligned at middle height. One pink pixelated heart symbol positioned directly above both text instances, centered between them. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes. The heart has a hollow interior and is composed of solid magenta pixels.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, featuring two blue 'michael' text labels 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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue michael text pink heart
  • pixel art micheal heart
  • black background blue text heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • michael

Visually Supported Entities

  • michael

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • pink heart
  • pixel art
  • michael text
  • hollow heart
  • 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
200802211702191861712006
Archive entry
200802211702191861712006.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802211702191861712006.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802211702191861712006.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016