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Pixelated icon with black background, white text 'ilysm' and 'Nick<333', pink heart and starburst symbols above.

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Pixelated icon with black background, white text 'ilysm' and 'Nick<333', pink heart and starburst symbols above.

Pixelated icon with black background, white text 'ilysm' and 'Nick<333', pink heart and starburst symbols above. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in top-left section
  • starburst symbol appears in top-right section
  • dotted circle symbol appears in bottom-left section
  • no symbol in bottom-right section

Animation Summary

The icon shows four identical text sections; the top-left section has a solid pink heart symbol, the top-right has a pink starburst symbol, and the bottom-left has a pink dotted circle symbol.

Composition

  • four sections
  • symmetrical text placement

Dense Caption

Black background displays four identical pixelated sections. Each section contains white text: 'ilysm' on top line, 'Nick<333' below it. Top-left section has a solid pink heart symbol above the text; top-right section has a pink starburst (eight-pointed) symbol above the text; bottom-left section has a pink dotted circular pattern above the text; bottom-right section has no symbol above the text. All sections share identical text and layout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with black background, white text 'ilysm' and 'Nick<333', pink heart and starburst symbols above.

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

  • ilysm Nick<333 black background
  • pink heart white text
  • pink starburst white text
  • pink dotted circle white text

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • ilysm
  • Nick<333

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'ilysm'
  • text 'Nick<333'

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'ilysm' text
  • 'Nick<333' text
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • pink dotted circle
  • four identical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803151144321441111029
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
325 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b20e275dfc8cfc1f20ad9e427f626a9d94fdac4fd13af49adae009e867c48e9b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
b20e275dfc8cfc1f
SHA-256
b20e275dfc8cfc1f20ad9e427f626a9d94fdac4fd13af49adae009e867c48e9b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108008

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon with black background, white text 'ilysm' and 'Nick<333', pink heart and starburst symbols above.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,938 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 695

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted circle (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in top-left section
  • starburst symbol appears in top-right section
  • dotted circle symbol appears in bottom-left section
  • no symbol in bottom-right section

Animation Summary

The icon shows four identical text sections; the top-left section has a solid pink heart symbol, the top-right has a pink starburst symbol, and the bottom-left has a pink dotted circle symbol.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • four sections
  • symmetrical text placement

Dense Caption

Black background displays four identical pixelated sections. Each section contains white text: 'ilysm' on top line, 'Nick<333' below it. Top-left section has a solid pink heart symbol above the text; top-right section has a pink starburst (eight-pointed) symbol above the text; bottom-left section has a pink dotted circular pattern above the text; bottom-right section has no symbol above the text. All sections share identical text and layout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with black background, white text 'ilysm' and 'Nick<333', pink heart and starburst symbols above.

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

  • ilysm Nick<333 black background
  • pink heart white text
  • pink starburst white text
  • pink dotted circle white text

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst
  • dotted circle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • ilysm
  • Nick<333

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'ilysm'
  • text 'Nick<333'

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'ilysm' text
  • 'Nick<333' text
  • pink heart symbol
  • pink starburst symbol
  • pink dotted circle
  • four identical sections
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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
200803151144321441111029
Archive entry
200803151144321441111029.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803151144321441111029.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803151144321441111029.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016