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Red pixelated heart symbol above light blue text reading "I love Michelle! 4-21-08" on black background.

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Red pixelated heart symbol above light blue text reading "I love Michelle! 4-21-08" on black background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above light blue text reading "I love Michelle! 4-21-08" on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical vertical of text side-by-side

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below, two identical instances of light blue pixelated text: first line reads "I love", second line reads "Michelle!", third line reads "4-21-08". Text is arranged in vertical columns side-by-side. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above light blue text reading "I love Michelle! 4-21-08" on black 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

Named Entities

  • Michelle

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pixel art
  • I love Michelle 4-21-08 text
  • light blue pixelated text
  • two identical text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns of text side-by-side
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical text columns

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I love
  • Michelle!
  • 4-21-08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michelle

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • light blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering
  • I love Michelle!
  • 4-21-08
  • two identical text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806050951581630922463
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
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 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
6386932757c1338e
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000495

OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
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1039
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Red pixelated heart symbol above light blue text reading "I love Michelle! 4-21-08" on black background.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,332 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 588

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
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  • dithered rendering (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical vertical of text side-by-side

Dense Caption

Black background with red pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below, two identical instances of light blue pixelated text: first line reads "I love", second line reads "Michelle!", third line reads "4-21-08". Text is arranged in vertical columns side-by-side. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above light blue text reading "I love Michelle! 4-21-08" on black 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personalized

Named Entities

  • Michelle

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pixel art
  • I love Michelle 4-21-08 text
  • light blue pixelated text
  • two identical text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns of text side-by-side
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical text columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • I love
  • Michelle!
  • 4-21-08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michelle

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • light blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated rendering
  • I love Michelle!
  • 4-21-08
  • two identical text instances
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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
200806050951581630922463
Archive entry
200806050951581630922463.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200806050951581630922463.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806050951581630922463.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016