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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a light-colored sweater, next to purple text reading 'I Love Tyler <33' on a black background.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a light-colored sweater, next to purple text reading 'I Love Tyler <33' on a black background.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a light-colored sweater, next to purple text reading 'I Love Tyler <33' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • portrait on left

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated portrait shows a person with brown hair partially covering their eyes, wearing a light-colored sweater with a textured collar. The right section has a solid black background with purple pixelated text: 'I' on the top line, 'Love' on the second line, 'Tyler' on the third line, and '<33' on the bottom line. The text is vertically aligned to the right. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a light-colored sweater, next to purple text reading 'I Love Tyler <33' on a black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Tyler

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Tyler

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tyler <33
  • I Love Tyler
  • purple text black background
  • brown hair light sweater

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Tyler
  • <33

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tyler

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light-colored sweater
  • black background
  • purple text
  • pixelated
  • I Love Tyler
  • <33
  • vertical text alignment
  • textured collar
  • hair covering eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824082307430906476
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40a5fd963eaae9609bf3e6dcc203646847a76500241ae187634445a4e9d8f19c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
40a5fd963eaae960
SHA-256
40a5fd963eaae9609bf3e6dcc203646847a76500241ae187634445a4e9d8f19c
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1355
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002851

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
1258
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a light-colored sweater, next to purple text reading 'I Love Tyler <33' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,857 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 750

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light-colored
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • portrait on left

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a pixelated portrait shows a person with brown hair partially covering their eyes, wearing a light-colored sweater with a textured collar. The right section has a solid black background with purple pixelated text: 'I' on the top line, 'Love' on the second line, 'Tyler' on the third line, and '<33' on the bottom line. The text is vertically aligned to the right. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a light-colored sweater, next to purple text reading 'I Love Tyler <33' on a black background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Tyler

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Tyler

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Tyler <33
  • I Love Tyler
  • purple text black background
  • brown hair light sweater

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Tyler
  • <33

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tyler

Wordwall

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  • light-colored sweater
  • black background
  • purple text
  • pixelated
  • I Love Tyler
  • <33
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:50 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070824082307430906476
Archive entry
20070824082307430906476.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070824082307430906476.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824082307430906476.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016