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Pixelated pink text 'nickk' with '<3' below it on dark red background, two heart symbols at bottom right corners.

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Pixelated pink text 'nickk' with '<3' below it on dark red background, two heart symbols at bottom right corners.

Pixelated pink text 'nickk' with '<3' below it on dark red background, two heart symbols at bottom right corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side text
  • bottom-right hearts

Dense Caption

Dark red background with two identical side-by-side pixelated pink text elements reading 'nickk' in lowercase. Below each 'nickk' is a pixelated pink '<3' symbol. Two pixelated pink heart symbols appear at the bottom right corners of the frame. The left heart is solid while the right heart has a small pixel missing from its top-right section. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution 8-bit style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'nickk' with '<3' below it on dark red background, two heart symbols at bottom right corners.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nickk <3 hearts
  • pink text dark red background
  • pixelated hearts
  • 8-bit style nickk

Visible Text

  • nickk
  • <3

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • pixelated pink text
  • lowercase 'nickk'
  • '<3' symbol
  • two hearts
  • solid heart
  • heart with missing pixel
  • 8-bit style
  • low-resolution
  • side-by-side text
  • bottom-right hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902081843001261903081
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
199 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba4112f9d0765b032517948bfc63184ed21b978a300c4ed63ca1a2857f0ee3ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
ba4112f9d0765b03
SHA-256
ba4112f9d0765b032517948bfc63184ed21b978a300c4ed63ca1a2857f0ee3ab
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070663

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink text 'nickk' with '<3' below it on dark red background, two heart symbols at bottom right corners.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,859 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 670

Review tags

  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark red
  • pink

Composition

  • side-by-side text
  • bottom-right hearts

Dense Caption

Dark red background with two identical side-by-side pixelated pink text elements reading 'nickk' in lowercase. Below each 'nickk' is a pixelated pink '<3' symbol. Two pixelated pink heart symbols appear at the bottom right corners of the frame. The left heart is solid while the right heart has a small pixel missing from its top-right section. All elements are rendered in a low-resolution 8-bit style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'nickk' with '<3' below it on dark red background, two heart symbols at bottom right corners.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nickk <3 hearts
  • pink text dark red background
  • pixelated hearts
  • 8-bit style nickk

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • nickk
  • <3

Wordwall

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  • pixelated pink text
  • lowercase 'nickk'
  • '<3' symbol
  • two hearts
  • solid heart
  • heart with missing pixel
  • 8-bit style
  • low-resolution
  • side-by-side text
  • bottom-right hearts
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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
200902081843001261903081
Archive entry
200902081843001261903081.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902081843001261903081.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902081843001261903081.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016