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A static pixel art icon with a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings on a black background.

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A static pixel art icon with a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings on a black background.

A static pixel art icon with a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • centered text pairs
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical white pixelated text strings "12.18.08" horizontally centered below the heart, one on the left and one on the right. Two identical white pixelated "+1" symbols below the text strings, one on the left and one on the right. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081227014710250178611
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081227014710250178611

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart 12.18.08 +1
  • 12.18.08 +1 pixel art
  • heart symbol black background
  • two identical text strings

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • 12.18.08
  • +1

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • 12.18.08 text
  • +1 symbol
  • black background
  • pixelated art
  • static icon
  • two identical text strings
  • two identical +1 symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081227014710250178611
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
218 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/96b5776b7be97aa6e50cb78548db804529e562bc73733b942cf5ead15159c8cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
96b5776b7be97aa6
SHA-256
96b5776b7be97aa6e50cb78548db804529e562bc73733b942cf5ead15159c8cb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
1063
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084602

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art icon with a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings on a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,366 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 728

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • 1 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • centered text pairs
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Two identical white pixelated text strings "12.18.08" horizontally centered below the heart, one on the left and one on the right. Two identical white pixelated "+1" symbols below the text strings, one on the left and one on the right. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A static pixel art icon with a pink heart symbol above two identical white text strings 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081227014710250178611
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081227014710250178611

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart 12.18.08 +1
  • 12.18.08 +1 pixel art
  • heart symbol black background
  • two identical text strings

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • +1 symbol

Visible Text

  • 12.18.08
  • +1

Wordwall

  • pink heart symbol
  • 12.18.08 text
  • +1 symbol
  • black background
  • pixelated art
  • static icon
  • two identical text strings
  • two identical +1 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
20081227014710250178611
Archive entry
20081227014710250178611.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081227014710250178611.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081227014710250178611.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016