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A static image with a cyan background featuring two identical pixelated text blocks and one pink heart symbol.

A static image with a cyan background featuring two identical pixelated text blocks and one pink heart symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above two text blocks
  • left-aligned text blocks

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Two identical left-aligned pixelated text blocks: 'John' in magenta-pink, below it '<333' in blue-purple. One small pink heart symbol above center-left. All elements are static; no animation observed. Text uses a retro digital font with visible dithering.

Description

  • A static image with a cyan background featuring two identical pixelated text blocks and one pink heart symbol.

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
  • 20071004160241421432382

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background magenta pink text
  • blue purple <333 John
  • pixelated heart cyan
  • retro digital font <333

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • John
  • <333

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • magenta-pink text
  • blue-purple text
  • retro digital font
  • pixelated heart
  • <333
  • John
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071004160241421432382
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
748 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c516a9e752492da54e0a79ab0d441cca71c6b68a99445d41fbd5b74c7469eb5d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
c516a9e752492da5
SHA-256
c516a9e752492da54e0a79ab0d441cca71c6b68a99445d41fbd5b74c7469eb5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102043

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a cyan background featuring two identical pixelated text blocks and one pink heart symbol.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,484 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 613

Review tags

  • blue purple (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta-pink
  • blue-purple

Composition

  • centered heart above two text blocks
  • left-aligned text blocks

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Two identical left-aligned pixelated text blocks: 'John' in magenta-pink, below it '<333' in blue-purple. One small pink heart symbol above center-left. All elements are static; no animation observed. Text uses a retro digital font with visible dithering.

Description

  • A static image with a cyan background featuring two identical pixelated text blocks and one pink heart symbol.

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
  • 20071004160241421432382

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background magenta pink text
  • blue purple <333 John
  • pixelated heart cyan
  • retro digital font <333

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • John
  • <333

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • magenta-pink text
  • blue-purple text
  • retro digital font
  • pixelated heart
  • <333
  • John
  • 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
20071004160241421432382
Archive entry
20071004160241421432382.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20071004160241421432382.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071004160241421432382.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016