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Green pixelated text 'stick head' above '[= <3' and pink/purple heart symbols on black background.

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Green pixelated text 'stick head' above '[= <3' and pink/purple heart symbols on black background.

Green pixelated text 'stick head' above '[= <3' and pink/purple heart symbols on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text and symbols
  • horizontal symmetry

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames side-by-side. Green pixelated text reads 'stick' at top, 'head' below it, then '= <3'. Below the text are five small hearts: four bright pink with one purple in the center. Background is solid black. All elements use 8-bit style pixels; no animation present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'stick head' above '[= <3' and pink/purple heart symbols on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805121715561457663296

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stick head green pixel art
  • heart symbols 8-bit text
  • <3 symbol pink hearts
  • green black heart icon

Visible Text

  • stick
  • head
  • [=
  • <3

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • five heart symbols
  • = <3 symbol
  • pink and purple hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805121715561457663296
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
286 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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
8242f47519b88df0
SHA-256
8242f47519b88df0159b9e699001d3a820739c5d931043ace9a04ead3a966010
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119483

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated text 'stick head' above '[= <3' and pink/purple heart symbols on black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,981 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text and symbols
  • horizontal symmetry

Dense Caption

Two identical static frames side-by-side. Green pixelated text reads 'stick' at top, 'head' below it, then '= <3'. Below the text are five small hearts: four bright pink with one purple in the center. Background is solid black. All elements use 8-bit style pixels; no animation present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'stick head' above '[= <3' and pink/purple heart symbols on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805121715561457663296

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stick head green pixel art
  • heart symbols 8-bit text
  • <3 symbol pink hearts
  • green black heart icon

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • stick
  • head
  • [=
  • <3

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • five heart symbols
  • = <3 symbol
  • pink and purple hearts
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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
200805121715561457663296
Archive entry
200805121715561457663296.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805121715561457663296.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805121715561457663296.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016