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A static pixel art image with a black background, purple heart symbol above two identical text strings.

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A static pixel art image with a black background, purple heart symbol above two identical text strings.

A static pixel art image with a black background, purple heart symbol above two identical text strings. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above two aligned text lines
  • horizontal symmetry between text instances

Dense Caption

Black background. Purple pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical white pixelated text strings *Nicole* on the same horizontal line below the heart, each preceded and followed by an asterisk. Each character in the text is rendered with a blocky 8-bit style using individual pixels. The leftmost and rightmost characters of both text strings are partially cropped.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, purple heart symbol above two identical text strings.

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

  • Nicole

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple heart pixel art
  • *Nicole* text buddy icon
  • 8-bit *Nicole* icon
  • black background white text heart

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • *Nicole*

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nicole

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple pixelated heart symbol
  • *Nicole* text string
  • white pixelated font
  • blocky 8-bit rendering
  • two identical text instances
  • asterisks flanking text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804211725231822608758
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
524 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
60e243155161e4aa
SHA-256
60e243155161e4aae4049356f82f40a10e662a7e77a92fa6de3eb618613ea015
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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 03:51 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000521

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July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
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1039
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A static pixel art image with a black background, purple heart symbol above two identical text strings.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,457 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 571

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart above two aligned text lines
  • horizontal symmetry between text instances

Dense Caption

Black background. Purple pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical white pixelated text strings *Nicole* on the same horizontal line below the heart, each preceded and followed by an asterisk. Each character in the text is rendered with a blocky 8-bit style using individual pixels. The leftmost and rightmost characters of both text strings are partially cropped.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a black background, purple heart symbol above two identical text strings.

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

  • Nicole

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple heart pixel art
  • *Nicole* text buddy icon
  • 8-bit *Nicole* icon
  • black background white text heart

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • *Nicole*

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nicole

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple pixelated heart symbol
  • *Nicole* text string
  • white pixelated font
  • blocky 8-bit rendering
  • two identical text instances
  • asterisks flanking text
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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
200804211725231822608758
Archive entry
200804211725231822608758.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#200804211725231822608758.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804211725231822608758.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016