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Pixelated black background with white text '4.16.08' and 'mini <3', one instance featuring a blue heart symbol replacing the '<3'.

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Pixelated black background with white text '4.16.08' and 'mini <3', one instance featuring a blue heart symbol replacing the '<3'.

Pixelated black background with white text '4.16.08' and 'mini <3', one instance featuring a blue heart symbol replacing the '<3'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in left block only (static frame comparison)

Animation Summary

  • One frame shows a blue heart replacing the '<3' character in the left text block; right block remains unchanged.

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • centered horizontally
  • vertical alignment of '4.16.08' and 'mini <3'

Dense Caption

Black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks: '4.16.08' above 'mini <3'. Left block has a solid blue heart symbol (not '<3') in place of the right angle bracket; right block shows standard white '<3' character. Text uses 7-segment digital font with rounded corners. Blue heart is positioned directly over the '<3' area, replacing it entirely.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with white text '4.16.08' and 'mini <3', one instance featuring a blue heart symbol replacing the '<3'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4.16.08 mini <3
  • blue heart replacement
  • <3 symbol pixel art
  • digital font 4.16.08

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • 4.16.08
  • mini <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol replacement

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • 4.16.08
  • mini <3
  • blue heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • digital font
  • <3 replaced by heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805021453341188923303
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
231 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66490c6f2b639c7fb20c7a666d6de4690afbaeab7f71bceb1efb1a884e813bdf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
66490c6f2b639c7f
SHA-256
66490c6f2b639c7fb20c7a666d6de4690afbaeab7f71bceb1efb1a884e813bdf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086944

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Pixelated black background with white text '4.16.08' and 'mini <3', one instance featuring a blue heart symbol replacing the '<3'.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:09 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,741 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 650

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 7 segment style (style, 0.80)
  • digital font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in left block only (static frame comparison)

Animation Summary

  • One frame shows a blue heart replacing the '<3' character in the left text block; right block remains unchanged.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • centered horizontally
  • vertical alignment of '4.16.08' and 'mini <3'

Dense Caption

Black background displays two identical pixelated text blocks: '4.16.08' above 'mini <3'. Left block has a solid blue heart symbol (not '<3') in place of the right angle bracket; right block shows standard white '<3' character. Text uses 7-segment digital font with rounded corners. Blue heart is positioned directly over the '<3' area, replacing it entirely.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with white text '4.16.08' and 'mini <3', one instance featuring a blue heart symbol replacing the '<3'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4.16.08 mini <3
  • blue heart replacement
  • <3 symbol pixel art
  • digital font 4.16.08

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital font
  • 7-segment style

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • 4.16.08
  • mini <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol replacement

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • 4.16.08
  • mini <3
  • blue heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • digital font
  • <3 replaced by heart
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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
200805021453341188923303
Archive entry
200805021453341188923303.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805021453341188923303.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805021453341188923303.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016