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Pixelated buddy icon with 'mike' and '3.8.08.' text, pink heart symbol above left text.

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Pixelated buddy icon with 'mike' and '3.8.08.' text, pink heart symbol above left text.

Pixelated buddy icon with 'mike' and '3.8.08.' text, pink heart symbol above left text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no visible motion changes)

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • heart above left block

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated text blocks display 'mike' in lowercase letters followed by '3.8.08.' on a white background; the first block has a small pink heart symbol positioned directly above its top-left corner. Both text elements use black and gray pixels with visible dithering, characteristic of low-resolution digital graphics from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated buddy icon with 'mike' and '3.8.08.' text, pink heart symbol above left text.

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
  • 20080322122702156237788

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mike 3.8.08 pink heart
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • white background lowercase letters
  • heart symbol above text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • mike
  • 3.8.08.

Wordwall

  • mike
  • 3.8.08
  • pink heart
  • pixelated text
  • white background
  • lowercase letters
  • gray dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080322122702156237788
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
789 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3cf1410557bb9fd369e9c50a37a87e0ab63ef6c373716b4034f58aac9d8d41c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
b3cf1410557bb9fd
SHA-256
b3cf1410557bb9fd369e9c50a37a87e0ab63ef6c373716b4034f58aac9d8d41c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094533

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated buddy icon with 'mike' and '3.8.08.' text, pink heart symbol above left text.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:29 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,819 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 636

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • static image no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no visible motion changes)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • heart above left block

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated text blocks display 'mike' in lowercase letters followed by '3.8.08.' on a white background; the first block has a small pink heart symbol positioned directly above its top-left corner. Both text elements use black and gray pixels with visible dithering, characteristic of low-resolution digital graphics from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated buddy icon with 'mike' and '3.8.08.' text, pink heart symbol above left text.

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
  • 20080322122702156237788

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mike 3.8.08 pink heart
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • white background lowercase letters
  • heart symbol above text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • mike
  • 3.8.08.

Wordwall

  • mike
  • 3.8.08
  • pink heart
  • pixelated text
  • white background
  • lowercase letters
  • gray dithering
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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
20080322122702156237788
Archive entry
20080322122702156237788.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#20080322122702156237788.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080322122702156237788.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016