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Pixelated white text and heart symbol on black background, two identical side-by-side layouts with 'i love nick.' below a heart.

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Pixelated white text and heart symbol on black background, two identical side-by-side layouts with 'i love nick.' below a heart.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart top
  • two identical vertical text blocks left and right
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: top center is a heart shape made of blocky pixels; left side has vertical arrangement of lowercase 'i', then 'love' in lowercase letters, then 'nick.' with period; right side mirrors the left layout exactly; all elements are static and identical on both sides.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and heart symbol on black background, two identical side-by-side layouts with 'i love nick.' below a heart.

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

Named Entities

  • nick

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love nick heart
  • white pixelated text black background
  • two identical layouts i love nick

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love nick.

Visually Supported Entities

  • nick

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol top center
  • two identical layouts
  • lowercase i
  • love
  • nick.
  • period

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802011759262029538451
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
202 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 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
976175b68bbfa2f8
SHA-256
976175b68bbfa2f8e5596a4fcfe933b57b1b460e1f3bab5f1fa28df72b8ec177
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Pixelated white text and heart symbol on black background, two identical side-by-side layouts with 'i love nick.' below a heart.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:20 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,671 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 542

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • simple (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart top
  • two identical vertical text blocks left and right
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated text: top center is a heart shape made of blocky pixels; left side has vertical arrangement of lowercase 'i', then 'love' in lowercase letters, then 'nick.' with period; right side mirrors the left layout exactly; all elements are static and identical on both sides.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and heart symbol on black background, two identical side-by-side layouts with 'i love nick.' below a heart.

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

  • affectionate
  • simple

Named Entities

  • nick

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love nick heart
  • white pixelated text black background
  • two identical layouts i love nick

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love nick.

Visually Supported Entities

  • nick

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • heart symbol top center
  • two identical layouts
  • lowercase i
  • love
  • nick.
  • period
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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
200802011759262029538451
Archive entry
200802011759262029538451.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802011759262029538451.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802011759262029538451.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016