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Pixelated cyan text 'summer of '08 <9' on black background with white heart outline above, two identical static frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated cyan text 'summer of '08 <9' on black background with white heart outline above, two identical static frames side-by-side.

Pixelated cyan text 'summer of '08 <9' on black background with white heart outline above, two identical static frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical side-by-side layouts

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixel-art heart outline at top center. Below it, cyan blocky text: 'summer' (two lines), then 'of', then ''08', then '<9'. Two identical copies of this layout displayed side by side horizontally. Text uses a retro 8-bit font style with visible pixelation. Cyan color is consistent across all text elements. No animation or motion observed in the static frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text 'summer of '08 <9' on black background with white heart outline above, two identical static frames side-by-side.

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

  • summer 2008 heart
  • cyan text summer of 08
  • pixel art summer '08 <9
  • <9 heart outline

Subjects

  • heart outline

Visible Text

  • summer
  • of
  • '08
  • <9

Visually Supported Entities

  • summer of '08 <9

Wordwall

  • white heart outline
  • cyan blocky text
  • 'summer' on two lines
  • 'of'
  • '08'
  • <9
  • black background
  • retro 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806121207121909462977
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
798 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
ce400a0a729217d4
SHA-256
ce400a0a729217d488e50268223c9685c8036d7e84c89a677bf7c7dbb6cd46b7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107383

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Pixelated cyan text 'summer of '08 <9' on black background with white heart outline above, two identical static frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,476 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 597

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

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  • white
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • two identical side-by-side layouts

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixel-art heart outline at top center. Below it, cyan blocky text: 'summer' (two lines), then 'of', then ''08', then '<9'. Two identical copies of this layout displayed side by side horizontally. Text uses a retro 8-bit font style with visible pixelation. Cyan color is consistent across all text elements. No animation or motion observed in the static frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text 'summer of '08 <9' on black background with white heart outline above, two identical static frames side-by-side.

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

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • summer 2008 heart
  • cyan text summer of 08
  • pixel art summer '08 <9
  • <9 heart outline

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro 8-bit

Subjects

  • heart outline
  • text

Visible Text

  • summer
  • of
  • '08
  • <9

Visually Supported Entities

  • summer of '08 <9

Wordwall

  • white heart outline
  • cyan blocky text
  • 'summer' on two lines
  • 'of'
  • '08'
  • <9
  • black background
  • retro 8-bit font
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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
200806121207121909462977
Archive entry
200806121207121909462977.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806121207121909462977.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806121207121909462977.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016