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

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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

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart symbol top center
  • text strings below
  • horizontal alignment
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below, two identical white text strings "Melly Mel" rendered in pixelated font. Background is solid black. Text strings are horizontally aligned and spaced apart. Each "Melly Mel" consists of two words with a single space between them. The heart symbol is composed of red pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a monospaced pixel art style. No animation changes observed.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red heart pixel art
  • Melly Mel text
  • black background pixel art
  • white pixelated text
  • two identical text strings
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • monospaced text
  • Melly Mel red heart

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Melly Mel

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated heart
  • black background
  • white text
  • Melly Mel text
  • two identical text strings
  • pixelated font
  • monospaced text
  • horizontal alignment
  • single space between words

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812300923292137682996
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
217 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 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
e31a87ec54c6110f
SHA-256
e31a87ec54c6110f8117c4932b2ca9ccf562a573a6ed3809ed8912813aea4b7c
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 23, 2026 at 09:46 UTC
Run
1324
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000046

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
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Red pixelated heart symbol above two identical white text strings on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,444 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • heart symbol top center
  • text strings below
  • horizontal alignment
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below, two identical white text strings "Melly Mel" rendered in pixelated font. Background is solid black. Text strings are horizontally aligned and spaced apart. Each "Melly Mel" consists of two words with a single space between them. The heart symbol is composed of red pixels forming a stylized heart shape. The text uses a monospaced pixel art style. No animation changes observed.

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

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  • red heart pixel art
  • Melly Mel text
  • black background pixel art
  • white pixelated text
  • two identical text strings
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • monospaced text
  • Melly Mel red heart

Style

  • pixel art
  • monospaced

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • Melly Mel

Wordwall

  • red heart symbol
  • pixelated heart
  • black background
  • white text
  • Melly Mel text
  • two identical text strings
  • pixelated font
  • monospaced text
  • horizontal alignment
  • single space between words
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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
200812300923292137682996
Archive entry
200812300923292137682996.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812300923292137682996.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812300923292137682996.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016