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Pixelated text 'Mike<3' on bright pink background with cyan and purple star-like symbols below.

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Pixelated text 'Mike<3' on bright pink background with cyan and purple star-like symbols below.

Pixelated text 'Mike<3' on bright pink background with cyan and purple star-like symbols below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical symbol

Dense Caption

Bright magenta-pink solid background. Centered white pixelated sans-serif text reads "Mike<3" in two identical horizontal rows. Below the text, a row of five small star-shaped symbols: first three are cyan, fourth is purple, fifth is cyan. Left-side version has second symbol as cyan and third as purple; right-side version swaps these positions (second symbol purple, third cyan). All elements maintain consistent pixelated rendering with no visible motion or additional details.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Mike<3' on bright pink background with cyan and purple star-like symbols below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mike

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

Named Entities

  • Mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta pink Mike star symbols
  • Mike<3 cyan purple stars
  • pixelated Mike text magenta background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symmetrical symbol row

Visible Text

  • Mike<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mike

Wordwall

  • "Mike<3" text
  • magenta-pink background
  • cyan star symbols
  • purple star symbol
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080217131439938792763
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
254 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d0937d139da0ec854daa70f8bb5c9327b43d507f7f97951ef00150b089e999f8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
d0937d139da0ec85
SHA-256
d0937d139da0ec854daa70f8bb5c9327b43d507f7f97951ef00150b089e999f8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.064021

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'Mike<3' on bright pink background with cyan and purple star-like symbols below.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 23:20 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,669 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 573

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta-pink
  • white
  • cyan
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical symbol

Dense Caption

Bright magenta-pink solid background. Centered white pixelated sans-serif text reads "Mike<3" in two identical horizontal rows. Below the text, a row of five small star-shaped symbols: first three are cyan, fourth is purple, fifth is cyan. Left-side version has second symbol as cyan and third as purple; right-side version swaps these positions (second symbol purple, third cyan). All elements maintain consistent pixelated rendering with no visible motion or additional details.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Mike<3' on bright pink background with cyan and purple star-like symbols below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mike

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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta pink Mike star symbols
  • Mike<3 cyan purple stars
  • pixelated Mike text magenta background

Objects

  • star symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symmetrical symbol row

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • Mike<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mike

Wordwall

  • "Mike<3" text
  • magenta-pink background
  • cyan star symbols
  • purple star symbol
  • pixelated 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
20080217131439938792763
Archive entry
20080217131439938792763.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080217131439938792763.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080217131439938792763.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016