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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol in top center, two identical side-by-side layouts.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol in top center, two identical side-by-side layouts.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol in top center, two identical side-by-side layouts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left frame shows cyan heart symbol; right frame lacks cyan heart symbol

Animation Summary

  • Left frame contains cyan heart symbol above 'Dot'; right frame lacks this symbol.

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • top-center cyan heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: 'Dot' at top left, 'KiCkLiNe' below it, '2008' beneath that, '<3' at bottom. Cyan heart symbol appears above and to the right of 'Dot'. Right layout mirrors left but lacks cyan heart. All elements are low-resolution pixels with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol in top center, two identical side-by-side layouts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart text 2008
  • pixelated dot kickline <3
  • black background white text cyan heart

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Dot
  • KiCkLiNe
  • 2008
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan heart symbol
  • pixelated white text
  • 'Dot'
  • 'KiCkLiNe'
  • '2008'
  • '<3'
  • low-resolution pixels
  • dithered rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801041830062017561930
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2033d02e2e1d83417eeedf202e73d1d5ed6f5bf5d4fe212245ed8a4091cfe4e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
d2033d02e2e1d834
SHA-256
d2033d02e2e1d83417eeedf202e73d1d5ed6f5bf5d4fe212245ed8a4091cfe4e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088555

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917643onnx/unsafe0.088555onnx/nsfl0.045903onnx/nsfw0.042652
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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol in top center, two identical side-by-side layouts.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,826 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 624

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cyan heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • dithered rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • left frame shows cyan heart symbol; right frame lacks cyan heart symbol

Animation Summary

  • Left frame contains cyan heart symbol above 'Dot'; right frame lacks this symbol.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • two identical side-by-side layouts
  • top-center cyan heart

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: 'Dot' at top left, 'KiCkLiNe' below it, '2008' beneath that, '<3' at bottom. Cyan heart symbol appears above and to the right of 'Dot'. Right layout mirrors left but lacks cyan heart. All elements are low-resolution pixels with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with cyan heart symbol in top center, two identical side-by-side layouts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart text 2008
  • pixelated dot kickline <3
  • black background white text cyan heart

Objects

  • cyan heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered rendering

Subjects

  • text elements
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Dot
  • KiCkLiNe
  • 2008
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan heart symbol
  • pixelated white text
  • 'Dot'
  • 'KiCkLiNe'
  • '2008'
  • '<3'
  • low-resolution pixels
  • dithered rendering
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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
200801041830062017561930
Archive entry
200801041830062017561930.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801041830062017561930.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801041830062017561930.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016