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Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with black text on a green background, each displaying "I love nicole because shes hot" in pixelated font.

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Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with black text on a green background, each displaying "I love nicole because shes hot" in pixelated font.

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with black text on a green background, each displaying "I love nicole because shes hot" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four instances are identical.

Composition

  • text centered in heart
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid green background. Each heart contains black pixelated text reading "I love nicole because shes hot" with "I" positioned above the heart and the rest of the text centered within the heart. The hearts have a slightly blurred or pixelated edge. The text uses lowercase letters for "love nicole because shes hot" and uppercase for "I". The font is a simple, blocky pixel art style typical of early internet graphics. The green background is uniform and solid. The hearts are identical in size and position across all four instances.

Description

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with black text on a green background, each displaying "I love nicole because shes hot" in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810041637221841296714

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart green background
  • I love nicole because shes hot
  • pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • uniform green background
  • text centered in heart
  • uppercase I

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four instances are visually identical; no animation changes observed.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • nicole
  • because
  • shes
  • hot

Wordwall

  • blue heart
  • green background
  • pixelated text
  • I love nicole because shes hot
  • blocky font
  • uniform green
  • identical hearts
  • text centered in heart
  • uppercase I

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810041637221841296714
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5a/5a8baa7dd4b9653892e6bdc8b22a01eebfd39060b4afa11e629990f29a55f062.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
5a8baa7dd4b96538
SHA-256
5a8baa7dd4b9653892e6bdc8b22a01eebfd39060b4afa11e629990f29a55f062
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090284

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915910onnx/unsafe0.090284onnx/nsfw0.055768onnx/nsfl0.034515
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Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with black text on a green background, each displaying "I love nicole because shes hot" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,726 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 884

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • uniform background (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four instances are identical.

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • text centered in heart
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid green background. Each heart contains black pixelated text reading "I love nicole because shes hot" with "I" positioned above the heart and the rest of the text centered within the heart. The hearts have a slightly blurred or pixelated edge. The text uses lowercase letters for "love nicole because shes hot" and uppercase for "I". The font is a simple, blocky pixel art style typical of early internet graphics. The green background is uniform and solid. The hearts are identical in size and position across all four instances.

Description

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with black text on a green background, each displaying "I love nicole because shes hot" in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810041637221841296714

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart green background
  • I love nicole because shes hot
  • pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • uniform green background
  • text centered in heart
  • uppercase I

Objects

  • heart
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four instances are visually identical; no animation changes observed.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • uniform background

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • nicole
  • because
  • shes
  • hot

Wordwall

  • blue heart
  • green background
  • pixelated text
  • I love nicole because shes hot
  • blocky font
  • uniform green
  • identical hearts
  • text centered in heart
  • uppercase I
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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
200810041637221841296714
Archive entry
200810041637221841296714.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810041637221841296714.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810041637221841296714.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016