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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on dark blue background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on dark blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • centered text pairs
  • horizontal symmetry

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with a red pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it, centered horizontally and spaced equally apart, are two identical white pixelated text strings reading "Mike<3". The heart consists of solid red pixels forming an incomplete outline shape. Each letter in "Mike<3" is rendered in blocky 8-bit style with rounded edges. The left instance of the text appears slightly more faded than the right.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on dark blue background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mike

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pixelated
  • dark blue background white text Mike<3
  • two identical Mike<3 texts
  • left text faded

Preprocessing Notes

  • left text instance appears slightly faded compared to right

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Mike<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mike

Wordwall

  • red pixelated heart
  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • "Mike<3"
  • two identical text instances
  • left text slightly faded

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902051702372003433124
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
205 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9d/9de432091fc71d0aab40483c0afd27d7dcb15e098f75fa9e439e8059f2ab23f5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
9de432091fc71d0a
SHA-256
9de432091fc71d0aab40483c0afd27d7dcb15e098f75fa9e439e8059f2ab23f5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080026

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on dark blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,024 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 642

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text string (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • centered text pairs
  • horizontal symmetry

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with a red pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it, centered horizontally and spaced equally apart, are two identical white pixelated text strings reading "Mike<3". The heart consists of solid red pixels forming an incomplete outline shape. Each letter in "Mike<3" is rendered in blocky 8-bit style with rounded edges. The left instance of the text appears slightly more faded than the right.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on dark blue background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mike

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pixelated
  • dark blue background white text Mike<3
  • two identical Mike<3 texts
  • left text faded

Preprocessing Notes

  • left text instance appears slightly faded compared to right

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text string

Visible Text

  • Mike<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mike

Wordwall

  • red pixelated heart
  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • "Mike<3"
  • two identical text instances
  • left text slightly faded
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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
200902051702372003433124
Archive entry
200902051702372003433124.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902051702372003433124.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902051702372003433124.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016