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Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee', 'iss', 'mee', 'see', '<33' repeated on both sides and a pink pixelated heart symbol in the center.

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Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee', 'iss', 'mee', 'see', '<33' repeated on both sides and a pink pixelated heart symbol in the center.

Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee', 'iss', 'mee', 'see', '<33' repeated on both sides and a pink pixelated heart symbol in the center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Composition

  • centered heart
  • vertical text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee' at top, 'iss' below it, 'mee' below 'iss', 'see' below 'mee', '<33' at bottom on both left and right sides. Centered pink pixelated heart symbol between text columns. Text is vertically aligned, each word on its own line. All text and symbol are rendered in 8-bit pixel art style. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee', 'iss', 'mee', 'see', '<33' repeated on both sides and a pink pixelated heart symbol in the center.

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

  • red background blue text heart symbol
  • pixel art text heart
  • 8-bit text repeated heart
  • blue text pink heart red background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art text columns heart

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • tee
  • iss
  • mee
  • see
  • <33

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • vertical text alignment
  • 8-bit pixel art style
  • repeated text
  • text: tee
  • text: iss
  • text: mee
  • text: see
  • text: <33

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807021903162127398677
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
243 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/516fdad5d87933b63f59a449d99a0f3b4e6baf3a9e48f9d080cecb43b6b768aa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
516fdad5d87933b6
SHA-256
516fdad5d87933b63f59a449d99a0f3b4e6baf3a9e48f9d080cecb43b6b768aa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078868

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee', 'iss', 'mee', 'see', '<33' repeated on both sides and a pink pixelated heart symbol in the center.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,674 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 661

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • vertical text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee' at top, 'iss' below it, 'mee' below 'iss', 'see' below 'mee', '<33' at bottom on both left and right sides. Centered pink pixelated heart symbol between text columns. Text is vertically aligned, each word on its own line. All text and symbol are rendered in 8-bit pixel art style. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Red background with blue pixelated text 'tee', 'iss', 'mee', 'see', '<33' repeated on both sides and a pink pixelated heart symbol in the center.

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

  • red background blue text heart symbol
  • pixel art text heart
  • 8-bit text repeated heart
  • blue text pink heart red background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art text columns heart

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • tee
  • iss
  • mee
  • see
  • <33

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • vertical text alignment
  • 8-bit pixel art style
  • repeated text
  • text: tee
  • text: iss
  • text: mee
  • text: see
  • text: <33
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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
200807021903162127398677
Archive entry
200807021903162127398677.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807021903162127398677.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807021903162127398677.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016