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Two identical pixelated text displays with blue heart symbols below on a cyan background.

Two identical pixelated text displays with blue heart symbols below on a cyan background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; all elements remain static with identical positions and states.

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Two instances of "** Nick **" in dark green pixelated font, each flanked by two asterisks. Below the left instance is a solid blue heart symbol; below the right instance is an outlined blue heart symbol. All elements are static with no visible animation changes between observations. Text uses monospaced blocky pixels typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Two identical pixelated text displays with blue heart symbols below on a cyan background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200712051629071537284072
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art
  • ** Nick ** blue heart symbols
  • solid vs outlined hearts cyan background
  • pixelated text cyan background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ** Nick **

Wordwall

  • ** Nick **
  • cyan background
  • dark green text
  • blue heart symbols
  • solid heart
  • outlined heart
  • pixelated font
  • monospaced characters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712051629071537284072
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
478 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/73db15964b8b3eb7da2119b98d47e75de85c6259d9f60fe5aacba78401329728.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
73db15964b8b3eb7
SHA-256
73db15964b8b3eb7da2119b98d47e75de85c6259d9f60fe5aacba78401329728
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089603

OpenAI category scores

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Two identical pixelated text displays with blue heart symbols below on a cyan background.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:30 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,141 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 540

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; all elements remain static with identical positions and states.

Colors

  • cyan
  • dark green
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Two instances of "** Nick **" in dark green pixelated font, each flanked by two asterisks. Below the left instance is a solid blue heart symbol; below the right instance is an outlined blue heart symbol. All elements are static with no visible animation changes between observations. Text uses monospaced blocky pixels typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Two identical pixelated text displays with blue heart symbols below on a cyan background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200712051629071537284072
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art
  • ** Nick ** blue heart symbols
  • solid vs outlined hearts cyan background
  • pixelated text cyan background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • ** Nick **

Wordwall

  • ** Nick **
  • cyan background
  • dark green text
  • blue heart symbols
  • solid heart
  • outlined heart
  • pixelated font
  • monospaced characters
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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
200712051629071537284072
Archive entry
200712051629071537284072.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712051629071537284072.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712051629071537284072.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016