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Pixelated text on bright blue background with two white heart symbols below.

Pixelated text on bright blue background with two white heart symbols below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • two hearts at bottom

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background displays pixelated white text in three lines: 'he was he was', 'never mine never mine', 'to lose to lose'. Two small white pixel hearts appear at bottom center and bottom right. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated text on bright blue background with two white heart symbols below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080328100233887838356

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art text hearts
  • he was never mine to lose
  • retro digital heart icon
  • pixelated white text cyan blue

Visible Text

  • he was he was
  • never mine never mine
  • to lose to lose

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • white hearts
  • blocky font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080328100233887838356
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
257 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/aeef2fbb787087088271cc9459aab41171c4d3180b6dcd22a0d1a89ea6c4bfac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
aeef2fbb78708708
SHA-256
aeef2fbb787087088271cc9459aab41171c4d3180b6dcd22a0d1a89ea6c4bfac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081358

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on bright blue background with two white heart symbols below.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:43 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,688 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 587

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • two hearts at bottom

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background displays pixelated white text in three lines: 'he was he was', 'never mine never mine', 'to lose to lose'. Two small white pixel hearts appear at bottom center and bottom right. Text uses blocky, retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated text on bright blue background with two white heart symbols below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080328100233887838356

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art text hearts
  • he was never mine to lose
  • retro digital heart icon
  • pixelated white text cyan blue

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • he was he was
  • never mine never mine
  • to lose to lose

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • white hearts
  • blocky font
  • static image
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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
20080328100233887838356
Archive entry
20080328100233887838356.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080328100233887838356.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080328100233887838356.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016