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Pixelated cyan text and heart symbols on a solid coral background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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Pixelated cyan text and heart symbols on a solid coral background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

Pixelated cyan text and heart symbols on a solid coral background, with two identical static frames showing the same content. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side frames
  • top text, bottom hearts

Dense Caption

Solid coral background. Two identical static frames side-by-side. Top-left frame: light cyan pixelated 'i <3' above 'my bff's', bottom row of five pinkish-white hearts (leftmost three slightly darker). Bottom-right frame: exact same layout and colors as top-left, with no visible differences in text or heart positions.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text and heart symbols on a solid coral background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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
  • 200901141503551132225133

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <3 my bff's
  • cyan text coral background hearts
  • pixelated hearts gradient
  • static buddy icon cyan coral

Visible Text

  • i <3
  • my bff's

Wordwall

  • coral background
  • cyan text
  • 'i <3'
  • 'my bff's'
  • five pixelated hearts
  • heart color gradient
  • static frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901141503551132225133
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
279 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 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
916e4945451d0fd5
SHA-256
916e4945451d0fd5a04a42a949e7bb448a550ccdc3338c9552335da63524f537
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069969

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Pixelated cyan text and heart symbols on a solid coral background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,809 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 595

Review tags

  • coral (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • coral
  • cyan
  • pinkish-white

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side frames
  • top text, bottom hearts

Dense Caption

Solid coral background. Two identical static frames side-by-side. Top-left frame: light cyan pixelated 'i <3' above 'my bff's', bottom row of five pinkish-white hearts (leftmost three slightly darker). Bottom-right frame: exact same layout and colors as top-left, with no visible differences in text or heart positions.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text and heart symbols on a solid coral background, with two identical static frames showing the same content.

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
  • 200901141503551132225133

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i <3 my bff's
  • cyan text coral background hearts
  • pixelated hearts gradient
  • static buddy icon cyan coral

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • i <3
  • my bff's

Wordwall

  • coral background
  • cyan text
  • 'i <3'
  • 'my bff's'
  • five pixelated hearts
  • heart color gradient
  • static frames
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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
200901141503551132225133
Archive entry
200901141503551132225133.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901141503551132225133.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901141503551132225133.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016