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<3 icon with three red hearts above black '<3' text on white background.

<3 icon with three red hearts above black '<3' text on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three hearts above text
  • centered composition
  • no borders or background elements

Dense Caption

Three overlapping red heart outlines in varying shades of pink and light red, positioned above a solid dark brown or black '<3' symbol. The hearts are arranged left-to-right: small heart at bottom-left, medium heart top-left, large heart center-top. All elements sit on a plain white background with no additional details or borders.

Description

  • <3 icon with three red hearts above black '<3' text on white background.

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

  • three red hearts <3
  • <3 heart icon
  • red hearts white background
  • affectionate text icon

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • three hearts
  • <3 text
  • red hearts
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080419111603246916772
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/309e68cc7e1f4ced88f6154753219cdfc536ef815b7b2b1ea1a2be6259810237.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
309e68cc7e1f4ced
SHA-256
309e68cc7e1f4ced88f6154753219cdfc536ef815b7b2b1ea1a2be6259810237
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093615

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<3 icon with three red hearts above black '<3' text on white background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:57 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,366 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 531

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light red (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
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  • simple (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • light red
  • dark brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three hearts above text
  • centered composition
  • no borders or background elements

Dense Caption

Three overlapping red heart outlines in varying shades of pink and light red, positioned above a solid dark brown or black '<3' symbol. The hearts are arranged left-to-right: small heart at bottom-left, medium heart top-left, large heart center-top. All elements sit on a plain white background with no additional details or borders.

Description

  • <3 icon with three red hearts above black '<3' text on white background.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three red hearts <3
  • <3 heart icon
  • red hearts white background
  • affectionate text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • simple
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • hearts
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • three hearts
  • <3 text
  • red hearts
  • white background
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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
20080419111603246916772
Archive entry
20080419111603246916772.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080419111603246916772.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080419111603246916772.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016