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A split-screen icon with four quadrants displaying 'i love mike' text and star symbols on black, purple, pink, and dark purple backgrounds.

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A split-screen icon with four quadrants displaying 'i love mike' text and star symbols on black, purple, pink, and dark purple backgrounds.

A split-screen icon with four quadrants displaying 'i love mike' text and star symbols on black, purple, pink, and dark purple backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant split
  • text centered in each quadrant
  • star symbols positioned below text

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background with cyan pixelated text 'i love mike' (lowercase 'i', lowercase 'love', lowercase 'mike') and a small bright pink star symbol below the text. Top-right quadrant: solid purple background with identical cyan pixelated text 'i love mike'. Bottom-left quadrant: solid bright pink background with identical cyan pixelated text 'i love mike' and a small black star symbol below the text. Bottom-right quadrant: dark purple background with identical cyan pixelated text 'i love mike'. All text uses a retro 8-bit font style. The star symbols differ in color (pink vs. black) between top-left and bottom-left quadrants.

Description

  • A split-screen icon with four quadrants displaying 'i love mike' text and star symbols on black, purple, pink, and dark purple backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712121725332127025879

Named Entities

  • mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love mike cyan text
  • four quadrant star icon
  • retro 8-bit i love mike
  • cyan pixelated 'i love mike' with stars

Visible Text

  • i love mike

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (as text subject)

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • 'i love mike'
  • retro 8-bit font
  • four quadrants
  • black background
  • purple background
  • bright pink background
  • dark purple background
  • small star symbol
  • pink star
  • black star

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712121725332127025879
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
575 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f451f1c12e07b96a246e5ed0a959e917928f0e176b1f2e085bcf151866a393cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
f451f1c12e07b96a
SHA-256
f451f1c12e07b96a246e5ed0a959e917928f0e176b1f2e085bcf151866a393cb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115386

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen icon with four quadrants displaying 'i love mike' text and star symbols on black, purple, pink, and dark purple backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,010 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 762

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text i love mike (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • purple
  • bright pink
  • dark purple

Composition

  • four-quadrant split
  • text centered in each quadrant
  • star symbols positioned below text

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background with cyan pixelated text 'i love mike' (lowercase 'i', lowercase 'love', lowercase 'mike') and a small bright pink star symbol below the text. Top-right quadrant: solid purple background with identical cyan pixelated text 'i love mike'. Bottom-left quadrant: solid bright pink background with identical cyan pixelated text 'i love mike' and a small black star symbol below the text. Bottom-right quadrant: dark purple background with identical cyan pixelated text 'i love mike'. All text uses a retro 8-bit font style. The star symbols differ in color (pink vs. black) between top-left and bottom-left quadrants.

Description

  • A split-screen icon with four quadrants displaying 'i love mike' text and star symbols on black, purple, pink, and dark purple backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712121725332127025879

Named Entities

  • mike

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love mike cyan text
  • four quadrant star icon
  • retro 8-bit i love mike
  • cyan pixelated 'i love mike' with stars

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro 8-bit

Subjects

  • text 'i love mike'
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • i love mike

Visually Supported Entities

  • mike (as text subject)

Wordwall

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  • 'i love mike'
  • retro 8-bit font
  • four quadrants
  • black background
  • purple background
  • bright pink background
  • dark purple background
  • small star symbol
  • pink star
  • black star
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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
200712121725332127025879
Archive entry
200712121725332127025879.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#200712121725332127025879.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712121725332127025879.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016