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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: lowercase 'i', heart symbol, '<3' emoticon, and 'tyree' in blocky font.

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: lowercase 'i', heart symbol, '<3' emoticon, and 'tyree' in blocky font.

Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: lowercase 'i', heart symbol, '<3' emoticon, and 'tyree' in blocky font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three- layout
  • vertical alignment of elements

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated elements. Top row contains a single lowercase 'i' on left, a heart-shaped outline composed of pixels in the center, and another lowercase 'i' on right. Middle row shows a '<3' emoticon (less-than sign followed by number 3) centered below each top element. Bottom row displays the word 'tyree' in blocky pixelated font across all three columns. The leftmost column includes an additional heart symbol above the '<3' emoticon.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: lowercase 'i', heart symbol, '<3' emoticon, and 'tyree' in blocky font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i heart tyree
  • tyree i <3
  • <3 tyree
  • pixelated i heart tyree

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three-column layout

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • tyree

Visually Supported Entities

  • tyree

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixels
  • lowercase i
  • heart outline
  • <3 emoticon
  • tyree text
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710261813082053681146
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
204 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3dba44df534beaad500fdfb8e86d9437af9a3845596efd2942397d64e223eb56.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
3dba44df534beaad
SHA-256
3dba44df534beaad500fdfb8e86d9437af9a3845596efd2942397d64e223eb56
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084090

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: lowercase 'i', heart symbol, '<3' emoticon, and 'tyree' in blocky font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:55 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,163 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 587

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 emoticon (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three- layout
  • vertical alignment of elements

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated elements. Top row contains a single lowercase 'i' on left, a heart-shaped outline composed of pixels in the center, and another lowercase 'i' on right. Middle row shows a '<3' emoticon (less-than sign followed by number 3) centered below each top element. Bottom row displays the word 'tyree' in blocky pixelated font across all three columns. The leftmost column includes an additional heart symbol above the '<3' emoticon.

Description

  • Pixelated white text and symbols on black background: lowercase 'i', heart symbol, '<3' emoticon, and 'tyree' in blocky font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i heart tyree
  • tyree i <3
  • <3 tyree
  • pixelated i heart tyree

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 emoticon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three-column layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • tyree

Visually Supported Entities

  • tyree

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixels
  • lowercase i
  • heart outline
  • <3 emoticon
  • tyree text
  • blocky font
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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
200710261813082053681146
Archive entry
200710261813082053681146.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710261813082053681146.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710261813082053681146.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016