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Black background displays white pixelated text 'Nick is my Best friend' with a colon emoticon and pink heart symbol below.

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Black background displays white pixelated text 'Nick is my Best friend' with a colon emoticon and pink heart symbol below.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text in three lines
  • two identical hearts below
  • centered heart under left text
  • heart under right text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'Nick is my Best friend' in three lines, followed by a colon emoticon '[ :' below the text. Two identical pink pixelated heart symbols appear beneath the emoticon, one centered under the left text block and one under the right text block. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background displays white pixelated text 'Nick is my Best friend' with a colon emoticon and pink heart symbol below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Nick is my Best friend
  • colon emoticon pink heart
  • pixelated text heart
  • low-resolution digital affection

Visible Text

  • Nick
  • is my
  • Best friend
  • [ :

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • Nick is my Best friend
  • colon emoticon
  • pink pixelated heart
  • low-resolution digital style
  • text in three lines
  • two identical hearts
  • centered heart under left text
  • heart under right text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811231416401681480652
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
903 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 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
8935e88a72cda16d
SHA-256
8935e88a72cda16d36c8ca31144d13892e994019ca894ff6f6451a74e7ab9251
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
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image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Black background displays white pixelated text 'Nick is my Best friend' with a colon emoticon and pink heart symbol below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,587 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 690

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • black
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  • pink

Composition

  • text in three lines
  • two identical hearts below
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  • heart under right text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'Nick is my Best friend' in three lines, followed by a colon emoticon '[ :' below the text. Two identical pink pixelated heart symbols appear beneath the emoticon, one centered under the left text block and one under the right text block. The text and symbols are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background displays white pixelated text 'Nick is my Best friend' with a colon emoticon and pink heart symbol below.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • friendly

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  • Nick is my Best friend
  • colon emoticon pink heart
  • pixelated text heart
  • low-resolution digital affection

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  • pink heart symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • text
  • colon emoticon
  • pink heart symbols

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  • Nick
  • is my
  • Best friend
  • [ :

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • Nick is my Best friend
  • colon emoticon
  • pink pixelated heart
  • low-resolution digital style
  • text in three lines
  • two identical hearts
  • centered heart under left text
  • heart under right text
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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
200811231416401681480652
Archive entry
200811231416401681480652.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811231416401681480652.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811231416401681480652.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016