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A static image of a cartoon character with a white head and pink cheeks, surrounded by pink hearts, with text phrases above and below.

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A static image of a cartoon character with a white head and pink cheeks, surrounded by pink hearts, with text phrases above and below.

A static image of a cartoon character with a white head and pink cheeks, surrounded by pink hearts, with text phrases above and below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above and below character
  • repeating character

Dense Caption

A cartoon character with a white rounded head, small black eyes, and a pink cheek mark stands on a dark gray platform. Pink hearts float near the character. Above the character, text reads "i love you" on the left, "<3" in the center, and "i need you" on the right. Below the character, text reads "be mine all over" on the left, "all over" in the center, and "again" on the right. The background is white with vertical gray lines. The character's head is slightly tilted, and the text changes across the image.

Description

  • A static image of a cartoon character with a white head and pink cheeks, surrounded by pink hearts, with text phrases above and 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character pink hearts
  • i love you i need you
  • be mine all over again
  • text phrases cartoon character
  • pink cheeks white head
  • gray platform vertical lines
  • affectionate romantic mood
  • pixelated cartoon style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • i love you
  • <3
  • i need you
  • be mine all over
  • all over
  • again

Wordwall

  • cartoon character
  • white head
  • pink cheeks
  • pink hearts
  • text phrases
  • gray platform
  • vertical lines background
  • tilted head
  • small black eyes
  • pink cheek mark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811011932041404335797
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b24e9263cb750d4ad9115cce069c8c44e7612011a4502a7d3814a37f64d3c24.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
3b24e9263cb750d4
SHA-256
3b24e9263cb750d4ad9115cce069c8c44e7612011a4502a7d3814a37f64d3c24
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 10:35 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000819

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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
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A static image of a cartoon character with a white head and pink cheeks, surrounded by pink hearts, with text phrases above and below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,112 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,171, response 745

Review tags

  • floating hearts (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • floating hearts

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • text above and below character
  • repeating character

Dense Caption

A cartoon character with a white rounded head, small black eyes, and a pink cheek mark stands on a dark gray platform. Pink hearts float near the character. Above the character, text reads "i love you" on the left, "<3" in the center, and "i need you" on the right. Below the character, text reads "be mine all over" on the left, "all over" in the center, and "again" on the right. The background is white with vertical gray lines. The character's head is slightly tilted, and the text changes across the image.

Description

  • A static image of a cartoon character with a white head and pink cheeks, surrounded by pink hearts, with text phrases above and 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character pink hearts
  • i love you i need you
  • be mine all over again
  • text phrases cartoon character
  • pink cheeks white head
  • gray platform vertical lines
  • affectionate romantic mood
  • pixelated cartoon style

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • text-based

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • i love you
  • <3
  • i need you
  • be mine all over
  • all over
  • again

Wordwall

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  • white head
  • pink cheeks
  • pink hearts
  • text phrases
  • gray platform
  • vertical lines background
  • tilted head
  • small black eyes
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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
200811011932041404335797
Archive entry
200811011932041404335797.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811011932041404335797.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811011932041404335797.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016