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Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above pink '<3' symbol on white background.

Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above pink '<3' symbol on white background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Composition

  • centered
  • text above symbol

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text in grayscale: 'less than three you' arranged in two lines. Below this text, there is a pink '<3' symbol composed of pixelated lines. The background is solid white. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics. The grayscale text uses varying shades of gray to form letters, while the '<3' symbol is a single bright pink color. The overall composition is centered with the text above the symbol.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above pink '<3' symbol 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • grayscale text
  • pixelated icon
  • text '<3' symbol
  • white background
  • digital graphics
  • centered composition

Visible Text

  • less than three you

Wordwall

  • grayscale text
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • solid white background
  • pixelated rendering
  • two-line text layout
  • centered composition
  • blocky digital style
  • text 'less than three you'
  • symbol '<3'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090115173224265176533
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40529fff59c08995d062c6f13b87033ee654351a7b747ada07f0a107b866acd7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
40529fff59c08995
SHA-256
40529fff59c08995d062c6f13b87033ee654351a7b747ada07f0a107b866acd7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088677

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above pink '<3' symbol on white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,736 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 664

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • text above symbol

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text in grayscale: 'less than three you' arranged in two lines. Below this text, there is a pink '<3' symbol composed of pixelated lines. The background is solid white. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics. The grayscale text uses varying shades of gray to form letters, while the '<3' symbol is a single bright pink color. The overall composition is centered with the text above the symbol.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above pink '<3' symbol 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • grayscale text
  • pixelated icon
  • text '<3' symbol
  • white background
  • digital graphics
  • centered composition

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • digital

Visible Text

  • less than three you

Wordwall

  • grayscale text
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • solid white background
  • pixelated rendering
  • two-line text layout
  • centered composition
  • blocky digital style
  • text 'less than three you'
  • symbol '<3'
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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
20090115173224265176533
Archive entry
20090115173224265176533.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090115173224265176533.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090115173224265176533.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016