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Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each reading 'nick<3' with blue letters and a red heart symbol replacing the '<3'

Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each reading 'nick<3' with blue letters and a red heart symbol replacing the '<3'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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two side-by-side displays
left display has heart replacement
right display shows numeric '3'

Dense Caption

Black background. Left display: blue pixelated lowercase text 'nick', followed by blue pixelated less-than sign '<', then red pixelated heart symbol (replacing '<3') oriented vertically; right display: blue pixelated lowercase text 'nick' followed by blue pixelated less-than sign '<' and blue pixelated number '3'. Both displays use 8-bit style font. Left display's heart is solid red with no internal details, positioned to the immediate right of the '<' character. Right display lacks any symbol after '<', showing only the numeric '3'.

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Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each reading 'nick<3' with blue letters and a red heart symbol replacing the '<3'

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

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blue text red heart
pixelated nick<3
left side heart replacement

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Visible Text

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Visually Supported Entities

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Wordwall

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blue text
red heart symbol
pixelated font
8-bit style
text: nick<3
left side has heart
right side has 3

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Added to archive: July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title: 200903261248141296558142
Era: Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Format: GIF
Dimensions: 48×48 pixels
File size: 202 bytes
Motion: Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive: July 12, 2026
Relative path: icons/a5/a564662df06dd1d0a4e70fde605f9aabe776d06b518680ab2f9d45f170cad568.gif
Media type: image/gif
Scanner metadata: v1
Animation inspected: July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID: a564662df06dd1d0
SHA-256: a564662df06dd1d0a4e70fde605f9aabe776d06b518680ab2f9d45f170cad568

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Assessed: August 13, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Run: 1287
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Assessed: July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
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Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each reading 'nick<3' with blue letters and a red heart symbol replacing the '<3'

Reviewed: August 19, 2026 at 04:14 UTC
Run: 61
Version: v5
Elapsed: 7,497 ms
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Dense Caption

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each reading 'nick<3' with blue letters and a red heart symbol replacing the '<3'

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

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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: 200903261248141296558142
Archive entry: 200903261248141296558142.gif
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200903261248141296558142.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903261248141296558142.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Two side-by-side pixelated text displays on black background, each reading 'nick<3' with blue letters and a red heart symbol replacing the '<3'

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