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Pixelated orange text and symbols on black background with a white heart-shaped cursor overlay on the left side.

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Pixelated orange text and symbols on black background with a white heart-shaped cursor overlay on the left side.

Pixelated orange text and symbols on black background with a white heart-shaped cursor overlay on the left side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left side shows cursor overlay
  • right side shows no cursor

Animation Summary

  • The left side displays a white heart cursor overlay on the '<3' symbol, while the right side shows the same text without the cursor.

Composition

  • text layout
  • left-right comparison

Dense Caption

Black background with orange pixelated text: 'Alex' followed by '<3' and a white heart cursor on the left; '10-28-08' below; '<33' at bottom. Right side shows identical text without the heart cursor. The heart cursor is a white pixelated shape overlapping the '<3' symbol. All text uses a retro digital font. The left side includes a white heart cursor overlay that is absent on the right side.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text and symbols on black background with a white heart-shaped cursor overlay on the left side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810301900011854404429
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Alex 10-28-08 <3 <33
  • heart cursor text
  • black orange white pixelated
  • left right comparison text
  • retro digital font cursor
  • Alex 10-28-08 cursor
  • text layout comparison
  • white heart cursor black background

Visible Text

  • Alex
  • 10-28-08
  • <3
  • <33

Wordwall

  • black background
  • orange pixelated text
  • Alex
  • 10-28-08
  • <3
  • <33
  • white heart cursor
  • retro digital font
  • left side has cursor
  • right side no cursor

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810301900011854404429
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
255 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a8d09b2da59243d5ea6e89d26d286d36ed4edfaf6c84dd3246e704c52f0662f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
8a8d09b2da59243d
SHA-256
8a8d09b2da59243d5ea6e89d26d286d36ed4edfaf6c84dd3246e704c52f0662f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097444

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated orange text and symbols on black background with a white heart-shaped cursor overlay on the left side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,194 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 756

Review tags

  • cursor overlay (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • heart cursor (object, 0.80)
  • left side shows cursor overlay (other, 0.80)
  • right side shows no cursor (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cursor (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • cursor overlay

Animation

  • left side shows cursor overlay
  • right side shows no cursor

Animation Summary

  • The left side displays a white heart cursor overlay on the '<3' symbol, while the right side shows the same text without the cursor.

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • text layout
  • left-right comparison

Dense Caption

Black background with orange pixelated text: 'Alex' followed by '<3' and a white heart cursor on the left; '10-28-08' below; '<33' at bottom. Right side shows identical text without the heart cursor. The heart cursor is a white pixelated shape overlapping the '<3' symbol. All text uses a retro digital font. The left side includes a white heart cursor overlay that is absent on the right side.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text and symbols on black background with a white heart-shaped cursor overlay on the left side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810301900011854404429
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Alex 10-28-08 <3 <33
  • heart cursor text
  • black orange white pixelated
  • left right comparison text
  • retro digital font cursor
  • Alex 10-28-08 cursor
  • text layout comparison
  • white heart cursor black background

Objects

  • heart cursor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • cursor

Visible Text

  • Alex
  • 10-28-08
  • <3
  • <33

Wordwall

  • black background
  • orange pixelated text
  • Alex
  • 10-28-08
  • <3
  • <33
  • white heart cursor
  • retro digital font
  • left side has cursor
  • right side no cursor
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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
200810301900011854404429
Archive entry
200810301900011854404429.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810301900011854404429.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810301900011854404429.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016