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Pixelated text 'Uncle Gary <3' on cyan background with a white heart symbol replacing the letter 'u' in 'Uncle'.

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Pixelated text 'Uncle Gary <3' on cyan background with a white heart symbol replacing the letter 'u' in 'Uncle'.

Pixelated text 'Uncle Gary <3' on cyan background with a white heart symbol replacing the letter 'u' in 'Uncle'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned text
  • single-line layout
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Black pixelated sans-serif text: 'Uncle' (with first character replaced by white heart), 'Gary', and '<3'. The heart is composed of solid white pixels forming an outline shape, positioned where the 'u' would be in 'Uncle'. All text elements are left-aligned on a flat cyan background with no additional visual effects.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Uncle Gary <3' on cyan background with a white heart symbol replacing the letter 'u' in 'Uncle'.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Uncle Gary

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

Named Entities

  • Uncle Gary

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • uncle gary heart
  • cyan background text
  • pixelated uncle gary <3
  • heart symbol replacing u

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Uncle Gary <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Uncle Gary

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • white heart symbol
  • <3 emoticon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801011807201246593674
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
854 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
521f5f11d234a2a4
SHA-256
521f5f11d234a2a4eb36ccf1ade2bb5da81977124b760ce32d09eda7165facf1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119294

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'Uncle Gary <3' on cyan background with a white heart symbol replacing the letter 'u' in 'Uncle'.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,263 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 555

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 emoticon (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • sans serif text (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • left-aligned text
  • single-line layout
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Cyan background. Black pixelated sans-serif text: 'Uncle' (with first character replaced by white heart), 'Gary', and '<3'. The heart is composed of solid white pixels forming an outline shape, positioned where the 'u' would be in 'Uncle'. All text elements are left-aligned on a flat cyan background with no additional visual effects.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'Uncle Gary <3' on cyan background with a white heart symbol replacing the letter 'u' in 'Uncle'.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Uncle Gary

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Uncle Gary

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • uncle gary heart
  • cyan background text
  • pixelated uncle gary <3
  • heart symbol replacing u

Objects

  • <3 emoticon

Style

  • pixelated
  • sans-serif text
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Uncle Gary <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Uncle Gary

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • white heart symbol
  • <3 emoticon
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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
200801011807201246593674
Archive entry
200801011807201246593674.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200801011807201246593674.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801011807201246593674.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016