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A static pixel art image with a bright pink background featuring white text and cyan symbols.

A static pixel art image with a bright pink background featuring white text and cyan symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Centered at the top: two white 'I' characters flanking a cyan heart symbol made of blocky pixels. Below this, repeated white pixelated text '#9829;:& #98#9829;:& #98'. Further down, centered white pixelated text reads 'Matt t.' on both left and right sides.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a bright pink background featuring white text and cyan symbols.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080419150213217738200

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background cyan heart white text
  • #9829;:& Matt t.
  • pixel art I heart I
  • Matt t. repeated text

Visible Text

  • I
  • #9829;:& #98#9829;:& #98
  • Matt t.

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • cyan heart symbol
  • #9829;:& repeated
  • Matt t. text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080419150213217738200
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
257 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69c9f67134598096ec7d3dff8595d496be74934cb314f2d70cf4386742f724d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
69c9f67134598096
SHA-256
69c9f67134598096ec7d3dff8595d496be74934cb314f2d70cf4386742f724d6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118186

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with a bright pink background featuring white text and cyan symbols.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:03 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,397 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 650

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Centered at the top: two white 'I' characters flanking a cyan heart symbol made of blocky pixels. Below this, repeated white pixelated text '#9829;:& #98#9829;:& #98'. Further down, centered white pixelated text reads 'Matt t.' on both left and right sides.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a bright pink background featuring white text and cyan symbols.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080419150213217738200

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background cyan heart white text
  • #9829;:& Matt t.
  • pixel art I heart I
  • Matt t. repeated text

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • I
  • #9829;:& #98#9829;:& #98
  • Matt t.

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • cyan heart symbol
  • #9829;:& repeated
  • Matt t. 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
20080419150213217738200
Archive entry
20080419150213217738200.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080419150213217738200.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080419150213217738200.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016