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Two identical cyan text blocks on bright pink background with heart symbols below each block.

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Two identical cyan text blocks on bright pink background with heart symbols below each block.

Two identical cyan text blocks on bright pink background with heart symbols below each block. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side text arrangements
  • heart symbols below each arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays two side-by-side cyan pixelated text arrangements. Left and right both show "Kim" at top, "ndd" in middle, "Gareth" below that, then a '<3' symbol beneath. Below the left arrangement is a white heart outline; below the right arrangement is an outlined heart with one filled segment. All elements are static.

Description

  • Two identical cyan text blocks on bright pink background with heart symbols below each 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

Named Entities

  • Kim
  • Gareth

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text bright pink background
  • <3 symbol heart outline
  • Kim Gareth ndd <3
  • two side-by-side pixelated arrangements

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • Kim
  • ndd
  • Gareth
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kim
  • Gareth

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • bright pink background
  • <3 symbol
  • white heart outline
  • heart with filled segment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806181441011204029181
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
238 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 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
a3256ec013481e2f
SHA-256
a3256ec013481e2f6ae3da24f390ed526ab1593ed8c29bf1dbad0c11026b6edf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.060103

OpenAI category scores

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Two identical cyan text blocks on bright pink background with heart symbols below each block.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,898 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 559

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • two side-by-side text arrangements
  • heart symbols below each arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink background displays two side-by-side cyan pixelated text arrangements. Left and right both show "Kim" at top, "ndd" in middle, "Gareth" below that, then a '<3' symbol beneath. Below the left arrangement is a white heart outline; below the right arrangement is an outlined heart with one filled segment. All elements are static.

Description

  • Two identical cyan text blocks on bright pink background with heart symbols below each 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
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Kim
  • Gareth

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text bright pink background
  • <3 symbol heart outline
  • Kim Gareth ndd <3
  • two side-by-side pixelated arrangements

Objects

  • <3 symbol
  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • Kim
  • ndd
  • Gareth
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kim
  • Gareth

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • bright pink background
  • <3 symbol
  • white heart outline
  • heart with filled segment
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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
200806181441011204029181
Archive entry
200806181441011204029181.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806181441011204029181.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806181441011204029181.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016