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Pixelated turquoise text 'michelle' surrounded by heart symbols and green plus signs on a black background.

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Pixelated turquoise text 'michelle' surrounded by heart symbols and green plus signs on a black background.

Pixelated turquoise text 'michelle' surrounded by heart symbols and green plus signs on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Source terms

Composition

  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered green plus signs. Four identical pixelated turquoise text blocks reading 'michelle' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each 'michelle' is flanked by heart symbols on both sides. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style. The green plus signs are distributed across the background, some near the text blocks and some in empty space. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated turquoise text 'michelle' surrounded by heart symbols and green plus signs 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

  • michelle pixel art
  • turquoise text green plus signs
  • heart symbols black background
  • pixel art

Objects

  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixel art

Visible Text

  • michelle

Wordwall

  • black background
  • green plus signs
  • turquoise text
  • michelle
  • heart symbols
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • scattered symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090505162933258173741
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88dcd1f218e967a727b90674efd483e728d8e9062736da67962e7e9243137661.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
88dcd1f218e967a7
SHA-256
88dcd1f218e967a727b90674efd483e728d8e9062736da67962e7e9243137661
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078588

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Pixelated turquoise text 'michelle' surrounded by heart symbols and green plus signs on a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,208 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 655

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • turquoise (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (object, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • turquoise

Composition

  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered green plus signs. Four identical pixelated turquoise text blocks reading 'michelle' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each 'michelle' is flanked by heart symbols on both sides. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style. The green plus signs are distributed across the background, some near the text blocks and some in empty space. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated turquoise text 'michelle' surrounded by heart symbols and green plus signs 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

  • michelle pixel art
  • turquoise text green plus signs
  • heart symbols black background
  • pixel art

Objects

  • plus signs
  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixel art

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • michelle

Wordwall

  • black background
  • green plus signs
  • turquoise text
  • michelle
  • heart symbols
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • scattered symbols
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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
20090505162933258173741
Archive entry
20090505162933258173741.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090505162933258173741.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090505162933258173741.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016