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Yellow pixelated text on teal background with pink heart symbol replacing 'd' in 'Melissa' on left side, static text on right side.

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Yellow pixelated text on teal background with pink heart symbol replacing 'd' in 'Melissa' on left side, static text on right side.

Yellow pixelated text on teal background with pink heart symbol replacing 'd' in 'Melissa' on left side, static text on right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Source terms

Composition

  • two-side layout
  • text-based
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Teal background with yellow pixelated text. Left side shows 'Melissa' with 'd' replaced by a pink heart symbol, below which is '61893'. Right side shows 'Melissa' with 'd' as a pixelated 'o', below which is '61893'. Bottom row shows 'Love aint easy' on both sides. Text is rendered in a retro pixel art style with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on teal background with pink heart symbol replacing 'd' in 'Melissa' on left side, static text on right 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal background yellow text pink heart
  • Melissa 61893 Love aint easy
  • pixel art heart symbol
  • retro text design

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Melissa
  • 61893
  • Love aint easy

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • 61893
  • Love aint easy
  • retro pixel art
  • Melissa

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812081636201387581795
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
281 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 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
e648f1c1496fd9fb
SHA-256
e648f1c1496fd9fbe21699baf66d56bea9fd280c51e18ac55d620d7aa0f5b240
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083023

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Yellow pixelated text on teal background with pink heart symbol replacing 'd' in 'Melissa' on left side, static text on right side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,000 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 640

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • two-side layout
  • text-based
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Teal background with yellow pixelated text. Left side shows 'Melissa' with 'd' replaced by a pink heart symbol, below which is '61893'. Right side shows 'Melissa' with 'd' as a pixelated 'o', below which is '61893'. Bottom row shows 'Love aint easy' on both sides. Text is rendered in a retro pixel art style with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on teal background with pink heart symbol replacing 'd' in 'Melissa' on left side, static text on right 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal background yellow text pink heart
  • Melissa 61893 Love aint easy
  • pixel art heart symbol
  • retro text design

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Melissa
  • 61893
  • Love aint easy

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • 61893
  • Love aint easy
  • retro pixel art
  • Melissa
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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
200812081636201387581795
Archive entry
200812081636201387581795.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812081636201387581795.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812081636201387581795.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016