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Green square icon with pink border displaying 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' text; top-right corner has a pink heart, bottom-right corner has a pink starburst.

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Green square icon with pink border displaying 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' text; top-right corner has a pink heart, bottom-right corner has a pink starburst.

Green square icon with pink border displaying 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' text; top-right corner has a pink heart, bottom-right corner has a pink starburst. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart appears in top-right corner
  • starburst appears in bottom-right corner

Animation Summary

  • Heart appears in top-right corner, starburst appears in bottom-right corner.

Composition

  • four-line text layout
  • top-right heart
  • bottom-right starburst

Dense Caption

Green square background with bright pink border. White pixelated text reads 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' in four lines. Top-right corner contains a solid pink heart. Bottom-right corner contains a pink starburst with four points. All elements are static except for the heart and starburst which appear in different frames.

Description

Green square icon with pink border displaying 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' text; top-right corner has a pink heart, bottom-right corner has a pink starburst.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20091219093951204559388

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mel Mike 12.31.03 green pink heart starburst
  • green square pink border Mel Mike 12.31.03
  • pixel art Mel Mike 12.31.03 heart starburst
  • green background pink border Mel & Mike 12.31.03

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Visible Text

  • Mel
  • &
  • Mike
  • 12.31.03

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pink border
  • white pixelated text
  • Mel & Mike
  • 12.31.03
  • pink heart
  • pink starburst
  • pixel art style
  • static text
  • four-line layout

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091219093951204559388
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
358 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
ff3b31f9672ab4bf
SHA-256
ff3b31f9672ab4bf625f8d495087480d3a36f9274ba85298e28e5c183696cf2c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080306

OpenAI category scores

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Green square icon with pink border displaying 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' text; top-right corner has a pink heart, bottom-right corner has a pink starburst.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,617 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 733

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • heart appears in top right corner (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • mel (subject, 0.80)
  • mike (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart appears in top-right corner
  • starburst appears in bottom-right corner

Animation Summary

  • Heart appears in top-right corner, starburst appears in bottom-right corner.

Colors

  • green
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • four-line text layout
  • top-right heart
  • bottom-right starburst

Dense Caption

Green square background with bright pink border. White pixelated text reads 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' in four lines. Top-right corner contains a solid pink heart. Bottom-right corner contains a pink starburst with four points. All elements are static except for the heart and starburst which appear in different frames.

Description

Green square icon with pink border displaying 'Mel & Mike 12.31.03' text; top-right corner has a pink heart, bottom-right corner has a pink starburst.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20091219093951204559388

Mood

  • celebratory
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • green square pink border Mel Mike 12.31.03
  • pixel art Mel Mike 12.31.03 heart starburst
  • green background pink border Mel & Mike 12.31.03

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  • starburst

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  • Mike

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  • &
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Wordwall

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  • pink border
  • white pixelated text
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  • 12.31.03
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  • pink starburst
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  • static text
  • four-line layout
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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
20091219093951204559388
Archive entry
20091219093951204559388.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091219093951204559388.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091219093951204559388.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016