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Pixel art with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks

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Pixel art with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks

Pixel art with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

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

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Black background with white text reading 'melissa' at top and bottom, 'David A.' in middle, and '<3's' in corners. Pink dashed lines form a cross dividing the grid into four quadrants. Pink asterisks appear at grid intersections and corners. Text is rendered in pixelated font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. The grid layout is symmetrical with identical text and symbols in each quadrant. The top-left and bottom-right quadrants contain 'melissa' and '<3's', while top-right and bottom-left contain 'David A.' and '<3's'.

Description

  • Pixel art with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081010082254608032013
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • melissa david a <3's
  • pixel art text
  • pink dashed lines asterisks
  • symmetrical text
  • black background pixel art
  • text repetition
  • melissa david a <3's symmetrical

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all elements static.
  • quarantined description: Pixel art grid with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks.
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: text repetition grid
  • quarantined retrieval: melissa david a <3's grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid text

Visible Text

  • melissa
  • <3's
  • David A.

Wordwall

  • melissa
  • David A.
  • <3's
  • pink dashed lines
  • asterisks
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • text repetition

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081010082254608032013
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
445 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69d8bb282e8348e6342f8fff2092ca7a667261fccf36ea1c10df4aad05fd706e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
69d8bb282e8348e6
SHA-256
69d8bb282e8348e6342f8fff2092ca7a667261fccf36ea1c10df4aad05fd706e
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
0.090155

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916432onnx/unsafe0.090155onnx/nsfw0.054420onnx/nsfl0.035735
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixel art with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,258 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 726

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

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

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Black background with white text reading 'melissa' at top and bottom, 'David A.' in middle, and '<3's' in corners. Pink dashed lines form a cross dividing the grid into four quadrants. Pink asterisks appear at grid intersections and corners. Text is rendered in pixelated font. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. The grid layout is symmetrical with identical text and symbols in each quadrant. The top-left and bottom-right quadrants contain 'melissa' and '<3's', while top-right and bottom-left contain 'David A.' and '<3's'.

Description

  • Pixel art with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081010082254608032013
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • melissa david a <3's
  • pixel art text
  • pink dashed lines asterisks
  • symmetrical text
  • black background pixel art
  • text repetition
  • melissa david a <3's symmetrical

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all elements static.
  • quarantined description: Pixel art grid with repeated names and symbols on black background, framed by pink dashed lines and asterisks.
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: text repetition grid
  • quarantined retrieval: melissa david a <3's grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid text

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • melissa
  • <3's
  • David A.

Wordwall

  • melissa
  • David A.
  • <3's
  • pink dashed lines
  • asterisks
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • text repetition
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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
20081010082254608032013
Archive entry
20081010082254608032013.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081010082254608032013.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081010082254608032013.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016