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A pixelated digital image with blue text and a red heart symbol on dark background, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

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A pixelated digital image with blue text and a red heart symbol on dark background, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

A pixelated digital image with blue text and a red heart symbol on dark background, showing two identical static frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • centered heart between

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. Two identical vertical columns of light blue pixelated text: top row "I", second row "love", third row "Nick", fourth row "<3" (heart symbol), fifth row "2.5.08". Between the two columns, a red pixelated heart outline is visible in the upper center. The image has no motion; both sides are identical.

Description

  • A pixelated digital image with blue text and a red heart symbol on dark background, showing 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

Named Entities

  • Nick

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Nick <3 2.5.08
  • pixelated heart text
  • blue background red heart
  • <3 symbol date

Objects

  • heart outline

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: centered heart between columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Nick
  • <3
  • 2.5.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nick

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • light blue text
  • red heart outline
  • two vertical
  • <3 symbol
  • 2.5.08 date
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804111738561165541856
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
250 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d3/d38a05645dacd597ef68b373e04fd39a0eff3d02e97a7b86557258440b2cc4ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
d38a05645dacd597
SHA-256
d38a05645dacd597ef68b373e04fd39a0eff3d02e97a7b86557258440b2cc4ab
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075367

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated digital image with blue text and a red heart symbol on dark background, showing two identical static frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,604 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 584

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • heart outline (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • red

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • centered heart between

Dense Caption

Dark blue background. Two identical vertical columns of light blue pixelated text: top row "I", second row "love", third row "Nick", fourth row "<3" (heart symbol), fifth row "2.5.08". Between the two columns, a red pixelated heart outline is visible in the upper center. The image has no motion; both sides are identical.

Description

  • A pixelated digital image with blue text and a red heart symbol on dark background, showing 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

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Nick

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Nick <3 2.5.08
  • pixelated heart text
  • blue background red heart
  • <3 symbol date

Objects

  • heart outline

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: centered heart between columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • Nick
  • <3
  • 2.5.08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nick

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • light blue text
  • red heart outline
  • two vertical
  • <3 symbol
  • 2.5.08 date
  • pixelated style
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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
200804111738561165541856
Archive entry
200804111738561165541856.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#200804111738561165541856.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804111738561165541856.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016