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A bright green background displays a pink pixelated heart above two identical blue text strings reading "mike<8".

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A bright green background displays a pink pixelated heart above two identical blue text strings reading "mike<8".

A bright green background displays a pink pixelated heart above two identical blue text strings reading "mike<8". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • center-left text
  • center-right text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Bright green solid background. Top-center: single-pixel pink heart shape with visible outline and internal negative space, rendered in 8-bit style. Below center-left: blue pixelated text "mike<8"; below center-right: identical blue pixelated text "mike<8". All elements are static on a flat green field.

Description

  • A bright green background displays a pink pixelated heart above two identical blue text strings reading "mike<8".

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
  • 200712151232221561035141

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart green background blue text
  • mike<8 pixelated icon
  • heart text green background
  • blue text pink heart

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • mike<8

Wordwall

  • pink heart
  • green background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • mike<8

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712151232221561035141
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
477 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be4eba15e87362c10dcbd30046dc04ddf4c34cf8647d1370301f324ba6f04540.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
be4eba15e87362c1
SHA-256
be4eba15e87362c10dcbd30046dc04ddf4c34cf8647d1370301f324ba6f04540
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.181554

OpenAI category scores

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A bright green background displays a pink pixelated heart above two identical blue text strings reading "mike<8".

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:10 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,346 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 600

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • center-left text
  • center-right text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Bright green solid background. Top-center: single-pixel pink heart shape with visible outline and internal negative space, rendered in 8-bit style. Below center-left: blue pixelated text "mike<8"; below center-right: identical blue pixelated text "mike<8". All elements are static on a flat green field.

Description

  • A bright green background displays a pink pixelated heart above two identical blue text strings reading "mike<8".

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
  • 200712151232221561035141

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart green background blue text
  • mike<8 pixelated icon
  • heart text green background
  • blue text pink heart

Objects

  • heart
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart
  • text

Visible Text

  • mike<8

Wordwall

  • pink heart
  • green background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • mike<8
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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
200712151232221561035141
Archive entry
200712151232221561035141.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#200712151232221561035141.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712151232221561035141.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016