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Pixelated pink text 'i love tom m<3' on purple background with cyan heart and starburst icons above the text in two variations.

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Pixelated pink text 'i love tom m<3' on purple background with cyan heart and starburst icons above the text in two variations.

Pixelated pink text 'i love tom m<3' on purple background with cyan heart and starburst icons above the text in two variations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • icon changes from heart to starburst between observations

Animation Summary

The cyan icon above the text changes from a solid heart to a starburst of scattered dots between observations; all other visual elements remain static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • icon above text

Dense Caption

Purple background. Pink pixelated text reads 'i love tom m<3' across three lines: 'i', then '[ove' (with left bracket), then 'tom m<3'. Two distinct cyan icon variations appear above the text: top-left shows a solid heart, top-right and bottom-center show a starburst of scattered dots. All elements are static except for the icon change between observations. Text uses lowercase letters with brackets and symbols; no other visual details present.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'i love tom m<3' on purple background with cyan heart and starburst icons above the text in two variations.

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
  • 20080219143258558483785

Named Entities

  • tom m

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 'i love tom m<3' pixel art
  • purple background pink text cyan icons
  • heart and starburst icon variations

Objects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • i
  • [ove
  • tom m<3

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink pixelated text
  • 'i love tom m<3'
  • cyan heart icon
  • cyan starburst icon
  • two icon variations
  • lowercase 'i'
  • bracketed '[ove'
  • m<3 symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080219143258558483785
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
973 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1e/1e8add66cca9892137468b71ab48050abca75d126b11d4fc8a14fea8ceb33788.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
1e8add66cca98921
SHA-256
1e8add66cca9892137468b71ab48050abca75d126b11d4fc8a14fea8ceb33788
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078075

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink text 'i love tom m<3' on purple background with cyan heart and starburst icons above the text in two variations.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 00:20 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,822 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 632

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart icon (object, 0.80)
  • starburst icon (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • icon changes from heart to starburst between observations

Animation Summary

The cyan icon above the text changes from a solid heart to a starburst of scattered dots between observations; all other visual elements remain static.

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered text
  • icon above text

Dense Caption

Purple background. Pink pixelated text reads 'i love tom m<3' across three lines: 'i', then '[ove' (with left bracket), then 'tom m<3'. Two distinct cyan icon variations appear above the text: top-left shows a solid heart, top-right and bottom-center show a starburst of scattered dots. All elements are static except for the icon change between observations. Text uses lowercase letters with brackets and symbols; no other visual details present.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'i love tom m<3' on purple background with cyan heart and starburst icons above the text in two variations.

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
  • 20080219143258558483785

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • tom m

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 'i love tom m<3' pixel art
  • purple background pink text cyan icons
  • heart and starburst icon variations

Objects

  • heart icon
  • starburst icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i
  • [ove
  • tom m<3

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink pixelated text
  • 'i love tom m<3'
  • cyan heart icon
  • cyan starburst icon
  • two icon variations
  • lowercase 'i'
  • bracketed '[ove'
  • m<3 symbol
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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
20080219143258558483785
Archive entry
20080219143258558483785.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080219143258558483785.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080219143258558483785.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016