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Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol; first frame shows 'pete' text overlay, second frame removes text, third frame shows full symbol on white background.

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Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol; first frame shows 'pete' text overlay, second frame removes text, third frame shows full symbol on white background.

Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol; first frame shows 'pete' text overlay, second frame removes text, third frame shows full symbol on white background. Animated 50×50…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • text overlay

Animation

  • text appears
  • text disappears

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay 'pete' appears in first frame, disappears in second frame, and the symbol remains visible in all frames.

Composition

  • <3 symbol
  • text overlay
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol. First frame (top-left) shows 'pete' text in white lowercase letters with black outline overlaid on the symbol. Second frame (top-right) shows the symbol without text. Third frame (bottom-left) shows the symbol on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. The symbol consists of a left-pointing chevron and a curved '3' shape. The text 'pete' is positioned horizontally across the chevron and '3' in the first frame. The symbol appears to be rendered with a pixelated or low-resolution style.

Description

Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol; first frame shows 'pete' text overlay, second frame removes text, third frame shows full 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

  • pete text <3 symbol
  • <3 symbol text overlay
  • text removed <3 symbol
  • pete <3 symbol
  • text overlay <3 symbol
  • text removed <3
  • pete <3
  • text overlay <3

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • pete

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • pete text
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
  • text overlay
  • chevron shape
  • curved 3 shape
  • black and white
  • lowercase letters
  • black outline
  • no text
  • text removed
  • symbol only
  • pixelated
  • chevron
  • curved 3
  • lowercase

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911141520231252159326
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47379a072607df76b77464ef03bcc689892b225a7e2d2e806c8e45e226a08bd9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
47379a072607df76
SHA-256
47379a072607df76b77464ef03bcc689892b225a7e2d2e806c8e45e226a08bd9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074057

OpenAI category scores

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Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol; first frame shows 'pete' text overlay, second frame removes text, third frame shows full symbol on white background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 839

Review tags

  • text overlay (action, 0.80)
  • text removal (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text appears (other, 0.80)
  • text disappears (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text overlay
  • text removal

Animation

  • text appears
  • text disappears

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay 'pete' appears in first frame, disappears in second frame, and the symbol remains visible in all frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • <3 symbol
  • text overlay
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol. First frame (top-left) shows 'pete' text in white lowercase letters with black outline overlaid on the symbol. Second frame (top-right) shows the symbol without text. Third frame (bottom-left) shows the symbol on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. The symbol consists of a left-pointing chevron and a curved '3' shape. The text 'pete' is positioned horizontally across the chevron and '3' in the first frame. The symbol appears to be rendered with a pixelated or low-resolution style.

Description

Black and white icon with stylized '<3' symbol; first frame shows 'pete' text overlay, second frame removes text, third frame shows full 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

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  • <3 symbol text overlay
  • text removed <3 symbol
  • pete <3 symbol
  • text overlay <3 symbol
  • text removed <3
  • pete <3
  • text overlay <3

Objects

  • <3 symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • <3 symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • pete

Wordwall

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  • pete text
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
  • text overlay
  • chevron shape
  • curved 3 shape
  • black and white
  • lowercase letters
  • black outline
  • no text
  • text removed
  • symbol only
  • pixelated
  • chevron
  • curved 3
  • lowercase
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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
200911141520231252159326
Archive entry
200911141520231252159326.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911141520231252159326.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911141520231252159326.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016