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Pixelated icon with cyan and black checkered background displaying red text 'check Mate' and '<3' symbols in multiple positions.

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Pixelated icon with cyan and black checkered background displaying red text 'check Mate' and '<3' symbols in multiple positions.

Pixelated icon with cyan and black checkered background displaying red text 'check Mate' and '<3' symbols in multiple positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • repeating checkered pattern
  • multiple text placements

Dense Caption

Cyan and black pixelated checkered pattern forms the background. Red text 'check Mate' appears three times: top-left, top-right, and bottom-center. Red '<3' symbols appear twice: center-top and bottom-center. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with red color on cyan/black squares. All elements are static; no animation observed in visible pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with cyan and black checkered background displaying red text 'check Mate' and '<3' symbols in multiple positions.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080326184142405311455

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan black checkered icon
  • red text check Mate
  • <3 symbols cyan background
  • 8-bit pixelated text icon

Visible Text

  • check Mate
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black checkered pattern
  • red text 'check Mate'
  • red '<3' symbols
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080326184142405311455
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/661cd14d7caa2fbe1f0aedcafc33507b47d232a4f06aa62116f2855cdfd12bd6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
661cd14d7caa2fbe
SHA-256
661cd14d7caa2fbe1f0aedcafc33507b47d232a4f06aa62116f2855cdfd12bd6
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000716

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
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Pixelated icon with cyan and black checkered background displaying red text 'check Mate' and '<3' symbols in multiple positions.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:21 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,411 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 546

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • repeating checkered pattern
  • multiple text placements

Dense Caption

Cyan and black pixelated checkered pattern forms the background. Red text 'check Mate' appears three times: top-left, top-right, and bottom-center. Red '<3' symbols appear twice: center-top and bottom-center. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with red color on cyan/black squares. All elements are static; no animation observed in visible pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with cyan and black checkered background displaying red text 'check Mate' and '<3' symbols in multiple positions.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080326184142405311455

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan black checkered icon
  • red text check Mate
  • <3 symbols cyan background
  • 8-bit pixelated text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • check Mate
  • <3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black checkered pattern
  • red text 'check Mate'
  • red '<3' symbols
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • static image
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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
20080326184142405311455
Archive entry
20080326184142405311455.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080326184142405311455.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080326184142405311455.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016