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A pixelated digital image displays blue text and a red heart symbol on black background, with identical mirrored sections of text and symbols.

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A pixelated digital image displays blue text and a red heart symbol on black background, with identical mirrored sections of text and symbols.

A pixelated digital image displays blue text and a red heart symbol on black background, with identical mirrored sections of text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image with mirrored text and symbol layout.

Composition

  • mirrored horizontal segments
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical horizontal segments mirror each other left-to-right. Each segment contains: top row - 'RYAN' in large blue pixels; middle row - 'SHECKLERSHECKLER' in large blue pixels (partially cut off on right); bottom row - '<3' in blue pixels. Above the left segment, a red pixelated heart symbol is present. All text and symbols are rendered with blocky 8-bit style. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

A pixelated digital image displays blue text and a red heart symbol on black background, with identical mirrored sections of text and symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080118143125276730011
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ryan shecklersheckler <3 pixelated blue red heart
  • blue text black background ryan shecklersheckler
  • mirrored pixel art ryan sheckler <3
  • 8-bit style ryan shecklersheckler heart symbol

Visible Text

  • RYAN
  • SHECKLERSHECKLER
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • mirrored segments
  • pixelated style
  • blocky rendering
  • 'RYAN' text
  • 'SHECKLERSHECKLER' text
  • '<3' symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080118143125276730011
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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/ec/ec7ed89c7e51e8f8f32a1003adbeb6faa69034f8c238ba83d06644c53d62c59a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
ec7ed89c7e51e8f8
SHA-256
ec7ed89c7e51e8f8f32a1003adbeb6faa69034f8c238ba83d06644c53d62c59a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.235184

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated digital image displays blue text and a red heart symbol on black background, with identical mirrored sections of text and symbols.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:13 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,316 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 610

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image with mirrored text and symbol layout.

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • mirrored horizontal segments
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical horizontal segments mirror each other left-to-right. Each segment contains: top row - 'RYAN' in large blue pixels; middle row - 'SHECKLERSHECKLER' in large blue pixels (partially cut off on right); bottom row - '<3' in blue pixels. Above the left segment, a red pixelated heart symbol is present. All text and symbols are rendered with blocky 8-bit style. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

A pixelated digital image displays blue text and a red heart symbol on black background, with identical mirrored sections of text and symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080118143125276730011
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ryan shecklersheckler <3 pixelated blue red heart
  • blue text black background ryan shecklersheckler
  • mirrored pixel art ryan sheckler <3
  • 8-bit style ryan shecklersheckler heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • 8-bit

Visible Text

  • RYAN
  • SHECKLERSHECKLER
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • red heart symbol
  • black background
  • mirrored segments
  • pixelated style
  • blocky rendering
  • 'RYAN' text
  • 'SHECKLERSHECKLER' text
  • '<3' symbol
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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
20080118143125276730011
Archive entry
20080118143125276730011.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#20080118143125276730011.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080118143125276730011.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016