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Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each showing 'Nancy <3 Josh' with red heart symbol on left display.

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Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each showing 'Nancy <3 Josh' with red heart symbol on left display.

Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each showing 'Nancy <3 Josh' with red heart symbol on left display. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left layout has red heart symbol
  • right layout has standard 'y' character

Animation Summary

Left layout shows 'Nancy' with red heart symbol replacing 'y', right layout shows standard 'y' character; both layouts display '<3' and 'Josh' below.

Composition

  • two side-by-side layouts
  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical pixelated text layouts side-by-side. Left layout: 'Nancy' in white pixelated font with red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'Nancy', below which is '<3' in white pixelated font, and below that 'Josh' in white pixelated font. Right layout: 'Nancy' in white pixelated font, below which is '<3' in white pixelated font, and below that 'Josh' in white pixelated font. Both layouts use monospaced pixelated font style. Left layout has red heart symbol where 'y' would be in 'Nancy', right layout has standard 'y' character.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each showing 'Nancy <3 Josh' with red heart symbol on left display.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Nancy
  • Josh

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Nancy heart Josh
  • Nancy <3 Josh
  • heart symbol Nancy
  • Nancy y heart
  • Nancy Josh heart
  • Nancy <3 Josh text
  • Nancy Josh pixel
  • Nancy Josh red heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • left layout shows heart symbol replacing 'y' in 'Nancy'
  • right layout shows standard 'y' character

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints

Visible Text

  • Nancy
  • <3
  • Josh

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • Nancy <3 Josh
  • red heart symbol
  • monospaced font
  • two identical layouts
  • left layout has heart
  • right layout has standard y
  • white text
  • red symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903221312301541079155
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
864 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/7951ff4de5909f31d7c65221d45399c9bead95b1f967a83bc69a01b5479ea8ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
7951ff4de5909f31
SHA-256
7951ff4de5909f31d7c65221d45399c9bead95b1f967a83bc69a01b5479ea8ce
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:07 UTC
Run
1060
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091431

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916467onnx/unsafe0.091431onnx/nsfl0.047057onnx/nsfw0.044374
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Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each showing 'Nancy <3 Josh' with red heart symbol on left display.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,549 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 788

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • left layout has red heart symbol (other, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • josh (subject, 0.80)
  • nancy (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • left layout has red heart symbol
  • right layout has standard 'y' character

Animation Summary

Left layout shows 'Nancy' with red heart symbol replacing 'y', right layout shows standard 'y' character; both layouts display '<3' and 'Josh' below.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two side-by-side layouts
  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical pixelated text layouts side-by-side. Left layout: 'Nancy' in white pixelated font with red heart symbol replacing the 'y' in 'Nancy', below which is '<3' in white pixelated font, and below that 'Josh' in white pixelated font. Right layout: 'Nancy' in white pixelated font, below which is '<3' in white pixelated font, and below that 'Josh' in white pixelated font. Both layouts use monospaced pixelated font style. Left layout has red heart symbol where 'y' would be in 'Nancy', right layout has standard 'y' character.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each showing 'Nancy <3 Josh' with red heart symbol on left display.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Nancy
  • Josh

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Nancy heart Josh
  • Nancy <3 Josh
  • heart symbol Nancy
  • Nancy y heart
  • Nancy Josh heart
  • Nancy <3 Josh text
  • Nancy Josh pixel
  • Nancy Josh red heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • left layout shows heart symbol replacing 'y' in 'Nancy'
  • right layout shows standard 'y' character

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced
  • text-based

Subjects

  • Nancy
  • Josh

Visible Text

  • Nancy
  • <3
  • Josh

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • Nancy <3 Josh
  • red heart symbol
  • monospaced font
  • two identical layouts
  • left layout has heart
  • right layout has standard y
  • white text
  • red symbol
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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
200903221312301541079155
Archive entry
200903221312301541079155.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#200903221312301541079155.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903221312301541079155.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016