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A static pixel art icon with a white heart outline at the top and two identical blue date stamps below on a black background.

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A static pixel art icon with a white heart outline at the top and two identical blue date stamps below on a black background.

A static pixel art icon with a white heart outline at the top and two identical blue date stamps below on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two identical date stamps below
  • horizontal alignment
  • black background

Dense Caption

The icon features a white pixelated heart outline positioned at the top center of a black background. Below the heart, two identical blue pixelated date stamps read '5/9/08' and are horizontally aligned, with the left stamp slightly to the left of the right stamp. The heart has a small pixelated notch on its left side. The heart and date stamps are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with no additional elements or colors.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a white heart outline at the top and two identical blue date stamps below on a black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart date stamp 5/9/08
  • pixel art heart date
  • blue date stamps black background
  • white heart blue dates

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • 5/9/08

Wordwall

  • white heart outline
  • black background
  • blue date stamps
  • 5/9/08
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • horizontal alignment
  • small notch on heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080711091023389393621
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
210 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
7497d4709bba13db
SHA-256
7497d4709bba13dbf524698e3ee9562a10f3372a09dde504cc54efa4821099d2
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 10:13 UTC
Run
1269
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.002965

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
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A static pixel art icon with a white heart outline at the top and two identical blue date stamps below on a black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,457 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 665

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • date stamps (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two identical date stamps below
  • horizontal alignment
  • black background

Dense Caption

The icon features a white pixelated heart outline positioned at the top center of a black background. Below the heart, two identical blue pixelated date stamps read '5/9/08' and are horizontally aligned, with the left stamp slightly to the left of the right stamp. The heart has a small pixelated notch on its left side. The heart and date stamps are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with no additional elements or colors.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a white heart outline at the top and two identical blue date stamps below on a black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart date stamp 5/9/08
  • pixel art heart date
  • blue date stamps black background
  • white heart blue dates

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart
  • date stamps

Visible Text

  • 5/9/08

Wordwall

  • white heart outline
  • black background
  • blue date stamps
  • 5/9/08
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • horizontal alignment
  • small notch on 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
20080711091023389393621
Archive entry
20080711091023389393621.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080711091023389393621.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080711091023389393621.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016