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Red background with two white 'rico<3' text strings and a pink pixelated heart above the left string.

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Red background with two white 'rico<3' text strings and a pink pixelated heart above the left string.

Red background with two white 'rico<3' text strings and a pink pixelated heart above the left string. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text alignment
  • centered heart above left text

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two identical white pixelated text strings reading 'rico<3' positioned horizontally; left string has a small pink pixelated heart symbol directly above it, centered over the '<3' portion. The heart is formed by connected pixels in a simple outline style with no fill. Both text strings use blocky 8-bit font characters. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Red background with two white 'rico<3' text strings and a pink pixelated heart above the left string.

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

  • rico<3 pink heart
  • red background pixel art
  • two identical text strings
  • 8-bit font heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • rico<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • rico<3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • rico<3
  • pink pixelated heart
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • two identical text strings

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710161447221050403182
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
199 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 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
a2b87c899ee03f87
SHA-256
a2b87c899ee03f87c1bcafdc50a377e5a0d278a6d618c06ee2f0c06ef5859c97
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119107

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Red background with two white 'rico<3' text strings and a pink pixelated heart above the left string.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,213 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 562

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text string (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • horizontal text alignment
  • centered heart above left text

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two identical white pixelated text strings reading 'rico<3' positioned horizontally; left string has a small pink pixelated heart symbol directly above it, centered over the '<3' portion. The heart is formed by connected pixels in a simple outline style with no fill. Both text strings use blocky 8-bit font characters. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Red background with two white 'rico<3' text strings and a pink pixelated heart above the left string.

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
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rico<3 pink heart
  • red background pixel art
  • two identical text strings
  • 8-bit font heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text string
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • rico<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • rico<3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • rico<3
  • pink pixelated heart
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • two identical text strings
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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
200710161447221050403182
Archive entry
200710161447221050403182.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710161447221050403182.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710161447221050403182.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016