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Pixelated text 'Need A Dance Date <3' in white on black background with red heart symbol above left text block.

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Pixelated text 'Need A Dance Date <3' in white on black background with red heart symbol above left text block.

Pixelated text 'Need A Dance Date <3' in white on black background with red heart symbol above left text block. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated sans-serif text: 'Need' (top line), 'A Dance' (middle line), 'Date <3' (bottom line) repeated side-by-side. Red pixelated heart symbol positioned above and to the right of the top-left 'Need'. Text has slight horizontal blur on left edge. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Need A Dance Date <3' in white on black background with red heart symbol above left text block.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • need a dance date <3
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • white black red color scheme
  • <3 emoticon repeated

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Need A Dance Date <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Wordwall

  • white text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • <3 emoticon
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text block

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080216074413202302588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
994 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/94/9413eb667d6ba81fcce048e242a030be161c306f57fa814050deb60f49a0b826.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
9413eb667d6ba81f
SHA-256
9413eb667d6ba81fcce048e242a030be161c306f57fa814050deb60f49a0b826
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085333

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'Need A Dance Date <3' in white on black background with red heart symbol above left text block.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,295 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 566

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 emoticon (object, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated sans-serif text: 'Need' (top line), 'A Dance' (middle line), 'Date <3' (bottom line) repeated side-by-side. Red pixelated heart symbol positioned above and to the right of the top-left 'Need'. Text has slight horizontal blur on left edge. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Need A Dance Date <3' in white on black background with red heart symbol above left text block.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • need a dance date <3
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • white black red color scheme
  • <3 emoticon repeated

Objects

  • <3 emoticon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monospaced text

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Need A Dance Date <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Wordwall

  • white text
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • <3 emoticon
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text block
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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
20080216074413202302588
Archive entry
20080216074413202302588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080216074413202302588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080216074413202302588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016