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Purple background with black text 'LEW' flanked by dark purple hearts, two red pixelated hearts below.

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Purple background with black text 'LEW' flanked by dark purple hearts, two red pixelated hearts below.

Purple background with black text 'LEW' flanked by dark purple hearts, two red pixelated hearts below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical heart placement
  • two hearts below

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Centered black text 'LEW' in blocky pixelated font. Left and right of 'LEW' are dark purple pixelated hearts. Below center, two red pixelated hearts: one centered, one right-aligned. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Purple background with black text 'LEW' flanked by dark purple hearts, two red pixelated hearts 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

  • purple background lew hearts
  • pixel art lew text
  • red hearts purple background
  • blocky font lew

Visible Text

  • LEW

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • black text
  • LEW
  • dark purple hearts
  • red pixelated hearts
  • blocky font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812121231011984193876
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
749 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/4340062aedce8f941a9c134e0b16d0f8cf06d3448e7e672c5471856631505825.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
4340062aedce8f94
SHA-256
4340062aedce8f941a9c134e0b16d0f8cf06d3448e7e672c5471856631505825
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004667

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Purple background with black text 'LEW' flanked by dark purple hearts, two red pixelated hearts below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,384 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • dark purple
  • red

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical heart placement
  • two hearts below

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Centered black text 'LEW' in blocky pixelated font. Left and right of 'LEW' are dark purple pixelated hearts. Below center, two red pixelated hearts: one centered, one right-aligned. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Purple background with black text 'LEW' flanked by dark purple hearts, two red pixelated hearts 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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background lew hearts
  • pixel art lew text
  • red hearts purple background
  • blocky font lew

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • LEW

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • black text
  • LEW
  • dark purple hearts
  • red pixelated hearts
  • blocky font
  • static image
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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
200812121231011984193876
Archive entry
200812121231011984193876.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812121231011984193876.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812121231011984193876.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016