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Pixel art icon with blue and pink text on black background showing 'eddie' above 'nyc93' with three blue '<3' symbols above the text.

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Pixel art icon with blue and pink text on black background showing 'eddie' above 'nyc93' with three blue '<3' symbols above the text.

Pixel art icon with blue and pink text on black background showing 'eddie' above 'nyc93' with three blue '<3' symbols above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; all elements remain static with consistent positioning and coloration.

Composition

  • centered
  • vertical stack

Dense Caption

Black background displays blue pixelated text 'eddie' centered above blue pixelated text 'nyc93' with pink asterisks on both ends. Three blue '<3' symbols appear above 'eddie' in a vertical stack. The text 'nyc93' has a pink asterisk on the left, a purple 'x' between 'nyc' and '93', and a pink asterisk on the right. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with blue and pink colors on black background. The icon shows no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with blue and pink text on black background showing 'eddie' above 'nyc93' with three blue '<3' symbols above the text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809231838111440811932
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eddie nyc93 icon
  • blue <3 pink asterisks
  • pixel art nyc93
  • eddie nyc93 blue text
  • nyc93 pink asterisks purple x
  • eddie blue <3
  • nyc93 pixel art
  • eddie nyc93 animation

Visible Text

  • eddie
  • nyc93

Wordwall

  • blue '<3' symbols
  • pink asterisks
  • purple 'x'
  • black background
  • pixel art style
  • 'eddie' text
  • 'nyc93' text
  • vertical text stack
  • blue text
  • pink text
  • purple text
  • low-resolution
  • centered text
  • pixelated font
  • 'nyc' text
  • '93' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809231838111440811932
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
296 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6dda50d5a2b1673e16502ce80bc5769ae16b1923ad497186ab9b247c36f29ee7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
6dda50d5a2b1673e
SHA-256
6dda50d5a2b1673e16502ce80bc5769ae16b1923ad497186ab9b247c36f29ee7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134748

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art icon with blue and pink text on black background showing 'eddie' above 'nyc93' with three blue '<3' symbols above the text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,825 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 780

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; all elements remain static with consistent positioning and coloration.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • centered
  • vertical stack

Dense Caption

Black background displays blue pixelated text 'eddie' centered above blue pixelated text 'nyc93' with pink asterisks on both ends. Three blue '<3' symbols appear above 'eddie' in a vertical stack. The text 'nyc93' has a pink asterisk on the left, a purple 'x' between 'nyc' and '93', and a pink asterisk on the right. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style with blue and pink colors on black background. The icon shows no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with blue and pink text on black background showing 'eddie' above 'nyc93' with three blue '<3' symbols above the text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809231838111440811932
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eddie nyc93 icon
  • blue <3 pink asterisks
  • pixel art nyc93
  • eddie nyc93 blue text
  • nyc93 pink asterisks purple x
  • eddie blue <3
  • nyc93 pixel art
  • eddie nyc93 animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • eddie
  • nyc93

Wordwall

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  • pink asterisks
  • purple 'x'
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  • 'eddie' text
  • 'nyc93' text
  • vertical text stack
  • blue text
  • pink text
  • purple text
  • low-resolution
  • centered text
  • pixelated font
  • 'nyc' text
  • '93' 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
200809231838111440811932
Archive entry
200809231838111440811932.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809231838111440811932.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809231838111440811932.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016