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Pixelated green text on black background with pink heart symbol above, displaying 'swiper is my hero.' and '<3' below.

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Pixelated green text on black background with pink heart symbol above, displaying 'swiper is my hero.' and '<3' below.

Pixelated green text on black background with pink heart symbol above, displaying 'swiper is my hero.' and '<3' below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below it, centered green pixelated text: "swiper" (first line), "is my" (second line), "hero." (third line). Below that, centered green pixelated "<3" symbol. All elements static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on black background with pink heart symbol above, displaying 'swiper is my hero.' and '<3' below.

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

  • swipe is my hero
  • green pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • swiper is my hero.
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • "swiper is my hero." text

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • green pixelated text
  • "swiper is my hero."

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711021711091718216260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
252 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8c0a11bc321b13c49c7837e3000baf41484e462ef2717a2bcbbd2a6e7fff129.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
f8c0a11bc321b13c
SHA-256
f8c0a11bc321b13c49c7837e3000baf41484e462ef2717a2bcbbd2a6e7fff129
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095499

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green text on black background with pink heart symbol above, displaying 'swiper is my hero.' and '<3' below.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:28 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,860 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 542

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Black background. Pink pixelated heart symbol at top center. Below it, centered green pixelated text: "swiper" (first line), "is my" (second line), "hero." (third line). Below that, centered green pixelated "<3" symbol. All elements static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on black background with pink heart symbol above, displaying 'swiper is my hero.' and '<3' below.

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swipe is my hero
  • green pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • swiper is my hero.
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • "swiper is my hero." text

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • green pixelated text
  • "swiper is my hero."
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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
200711021711091718216260
Archive entry
200711021711091718216260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200711021711091718216260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711021711091718216260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016