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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on black background.

Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above two side-by-side text lines

Dense Caption

Black background with a red pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it are two identical horizontal lines of white pixelated text reading "NiKKi<3" in a monospaced font, each line containing 7 characters including the '<3' emoticon. The left and right instances of the text appear to be static side-by-side with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on black background.

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

  • NiKKi <3 icon
  • red heart white text black background
  • pixelated NiKKi emoticon
  • <3 symbol with text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • NiKKi<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • NiKKi
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • NiKKi<3
  • <3 emoticon
  • monospaced font
  • two identical text lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081111153330176665094
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
753 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dc55a74bd80580468c4ccc8c55b1a80f477e850ed9ef8890c6f233db68ac5471.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
dc55a74bd8058046
SHA-256
dc55a74bd80580468c4ccc8c55b1a80f477e850ed9ef8890c6f233db68ac5471
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095996

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,836 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 566

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered heart above two side-by-side text lines

Dense Caption

Black background with a red pixelated heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it are two identical horizontal lines of white pixelated text reading "NiKKi<3" in a monospaced font, each line containing 7 characters including the '<3' emoticon. The left and right instances of the text appear to be static side-by-side with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on black background.

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
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • NiKKi <3 icon
  • red heart white text black background
  • pixelated NiKKi emoticon
  • <3 symbol with text

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced text
  • static image

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • NiKKi<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • NiKKi
  • <3

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • NiKKi<3
  • <3 emoticon
  • monospaced font
  • two identical text lines
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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
20081111153330176665094
Archive entry
20081111153330176665094.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081111153330176665094.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081111153330176665094.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016