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Pixelated text 'three <3' repeated across black background with red heart symbols below each instance, gray rectangle partially obscuring bottom-right corner.

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Pixelated text 'three <3' repeated across black background with red heart symbols below each instance, gray rectangle partially obscuring bottom-right corner.

Pixelated text 'three <3' repeated across black background with red heart symbols below each instance, gray rectangle partially obscuring bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • arrangement
  • repeated elements
  • partial cropping

Dense Caption

Black background displays three rows of white pixelated text 'three <3' (each 'three' is lowercase, '<3' is a heart symbol). Red pixelated heart symbols appear directly below each 'three <3' text instance. The bottom-right corner shows a solid gray rectangle obscuring part of the third row's rightmost heart. Text and hearts are arranged in a grid-like pattern with consistent spacing. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

Pixelated text 'three <3' repeated across black background with red heart symbols below each instance, gray rectangle partially obscuring bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three <3 pixel art
  • red heart text icon
  • black background text icon
  • gray rectangle obscured icon
  • repeated three <3 text
  • pixelated heart symbol icon
  • low-resolution text icon
  • arrangement text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: grid arrangement text icon

Subjects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • three <3

Wordwall

  • three <3 text
  • red heart symbols
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • arrangement
  • low-resolution art
  • repeated text
  • heart symbol
  • solid gray shape

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809261253221810317191
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
810 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
50c27b8ac4a596f9
SHA-256
50c27b8ac4a596f92e77e1289ace08886419f0b263d3b133af38f2974ea3c841
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073560

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Pixelated text 'three <3' repeated across black background with red heart symbols below each instance, gray rectangle partially obscuring bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 676

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray

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  • arrangement
  • repeated elements
  • partial cropping

Dense Caption

Black background displays three rows of white pixelated text 'three <3' (each 'three' is lowercase, '<3' is a heart symbol). Red pixelated heart symbols appear directly below each 'three <3' text instance. The bottom-right corner shows a solid gray rectangle obscuring part of the third row's rightmost heart. Text and hearts are arranged in a grid-like pattern with consistent spacing. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

Pixelated text 'three <3' repeated across black background with red heart symbols below each instance, gray rectangle partially obscuring bottom-right corner.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

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  • low-resolution text icon
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  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: grid arrangement text icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • three <3

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  • red heart symbols
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • arrangement
  • low-resolution art
  • repeated text
  • heart symbol
  • solid gray shape
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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
200809261253221810317191
Archive entry
200809261253221810317191.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809261253221810317191.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809261253221810317191.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016