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Green pixelated heart symbol above two identical dark blue text strings reading 'Maddy<3<' on a solid pink background.

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Green pixelated heart symbol above two identical dark blue text strings reading 'Maddy<3<' on a solid pink background.

Green pixelated heart symbol above two identical dark blue text strings reading 'Maddy<3<' on a solid pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above centered text
  • horizontal symmetry between two text instances

Dense Caption

Solid pink background. At the top center, a green pixelated heart shape composed of blocky pixels. Below it, centered horizontally and positioned in the middle third of the image, are two identical instances of dark blue pixelated text: 'Maddy<3<'. Each instance consists of capital M, lowercase a, d, d, y, followed by less-than sign, number 3, less-than sign. The heart is static; both text strings remain unchanged across all observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated heart symbol above two identical dark blue text strings reading 'Maddy<3<' on a solid pink background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Maddy

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

Named Entities

  • Maddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • maddy 3 heart
  • pink background maddy text
  • green pixelated heart maddy
  • maddy <3< pink

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Maddy<3<

Visually Supported Entities

  • Maddy

Wordwall

  • green pixelated heart
  • pink background
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • Maddy<3<
  • two identical text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080611180932910292376
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
223 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 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
f5dc71c14d96e45b
SHA-256
f5dc71c14d96e45bf57264d4c467ac233ce45ac3fef73617eb4fd8eb88a07194
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077629

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated heart symbol above two identical dark blue text strings reading 'Maddy<3<' on a solid pink background.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 20:51 UTC
Run
60
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,209 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 605

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky pixels (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • dark blue

Composition

  • centered heart above centered text
  • horizontal symmetry between two text instances

Dense Caption

Solid pink background. At the top center, a green pixelated heart shape composed of blocky pixels. Below it, centered horizontally and positioned in the middle third of the image, are two identical instances of dark blue pixelated text: 'Maddy<3<'. Each instance consists of capital M, lowercase a, d, d, y, followed by less-than sign, number 3, less-than sign. The heart is static; both text strings remain unchanged across all observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated heart symbol above two identical dark blue text strings reading 'Maddy<3<' on a solid pink background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Maddy

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Maddy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • maddy 3 heart
  • pink background maddy text
  • green pixelated heart maddy
  • maddy <3< pink

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky pixels

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • Maddy<3<

Visually Supported Entities

  • Maddy

Wordwall

  • green pixelated heart
  • pink background
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • Maddy<3<
  • two identical text instances
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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
20080611180932910292376
Archive entry
20080611180932910292376.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#20080611180932910292376.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080611180932910292376.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016