Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair, wearing a white top against black background; text above head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'.

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Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair, wearing a white top against black background; text above head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'.

Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair, wearing a white top against black background; text above head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation

  • text changes from 'Alex' to '<3'
  • no other motion

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text above head

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has light skin tone, dark brown hair styled in an updo with visible strands framing the sides of the face, and is wearing a white top. The background is solid black. In the left frame (first observation), white pixelated text above the head reads 'Alex'. In the right frame (second observation), this text changes to '<3', while all other visual elements including facial expression, pose, clothing, hair, and background remain identical between frames.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair, wearing a white top against black background; text above head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person brown hair white top black background
  • text Alex text <3 animation
  • buddy icon pixel art

Visible Text

  • Alex
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • white top
  • black background
  • text 'Alex'
  • text '<3'

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071012202716843751052
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47a39d880b26749e0020cf7713c58052149c2b6665600ba3c60c3f9b4cd27f8f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
47a39d880b26749e
SHA-256
47a39d880b26749e0020cf7713c58052149c2b6665600ba3c60c3f9b4cd27f8f
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 09:42 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000819

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 10:11 UTC
Run
1196
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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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 (1)
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Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair, wearing a white top against black background; text above head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:35 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,623 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 624

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no other motion (other, 0.80)
  • text changes from alex to 3 (other, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from 'Alex' to '<3'
  • no other motion

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light brown
  • beige

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text above head

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has light skin tone, dark brown hair styled in an updo with visible strands framing the sides of the face, and is wearing a white top. The background is solid black. In the left frame (first observation), white pixelated text above the head reads 'Alex'. In the right frame (second observation), this text changes to '<3', while all other visual elements including facial expression, pose, clothing, hair, and background remain identical between frames.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with light skin and brown hair, wearing a white top against black background; text above head changes from 'Alex' to '<3'.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • text Alex text <3 animation
  • buddy icon pixel art

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • buddy-icon style

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Alex
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • white top
  • black background
  • text 'Alex'
  • text '<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
20071012202716843751052
Archive entry
20071012202716843751052.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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