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Blue text 'Mark <3' repeated across a black background with red heart and arrow symbols appearing in different positions.

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Blue text 'Mark <3' repeated across a black background with red heart and arrow symbols appearing in different positions.

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Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • symbol placement in
  • partial gray rectangle obscuring bottom-left corner

Dense Caption

The image shows multiple instances of blue pixelated text reading "Mark <3" on a solid black background. Red pixelated symbols include hearts (❤️) positioned above the middle row, downward-pointing arrows (▼) below the middle row, and one rightward arrow (▶) in the top-right corner. The bottom-left section is partially obscured by a light gray rectangle. All text and symbols are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue text 'Mark <3' repeated across a black background with red heart and arrow symbols appearing in different positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue Mark <3 text
  • red heart arrows black background
  • pixelated blue red symbols
  • gray rectangle bottom left

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symbol placement in rows

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • Mark <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mark

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • <3 symbol
  • red heart symbol
  • downward arrows
  • right arrow
  • black background
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801031817141842750496
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
812 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/14f5fbcff57d6d780a46ec8a49676fa4c09d82aeb3a75d6d912e66d98b3a3288.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
14f5fbcff57d6d78
SHA-256
14f5fbcff57d6d780a46ec8a49676fa4c09d82aeb3a75d6d912e66d98b3a3288
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.147817

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Blue text 'Mark <3' repeated across a black background with red heart and arrow symbols appearing in different positions.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:25 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,755 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 588

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • arrows (object, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
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  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text mark (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • symbol placement in
  • partial gray rectangle obscuring bottom-left corner

Dense Caption

The image shows multiple instances of blue pixelated text reading "Mark <3" on a solid black background. Red pixelated symbols include hearts (❤️) positioned above the middle row, downward-pointing arrows (▼) below the middle row, and one rightward arrow (▶) in the top-right corner. The bottom-left section is partially obscured by a light gray rectangle. All text and symbols are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue text 'Mark <3' repeated across a black background with red heart and arrow symbols appearing in different positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue Mark <3 text
  • red heart arrows black background
  • pixelated blue red symbols
  • gray rectangle bottom left

Objects

  • hearts
  • arrows

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symbol placement in rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text 'Mark'
  • heart symbols
  • arrow symbols

Visible Text

  • Mark <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mark

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • <3 symbol
  • red heart symbol
  • downward arrows
  • right arrow
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
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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
200801031817141842750496
Archive entry
200801031817141842750496.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801031817141842750496.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801031817141842750496.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016