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Pixelated text and symbols in pink and cyan on white background, with a cyan heart above the left text block.

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Pixelated text and symbols in pink and cyan on white background, with a cyan heart above the left text block.

Pixelated text and symbols in pink and cyan on white background, with a cyan heart above the left text block. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • heart above left block

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated text blocks side-by-side. Each contains 'lauren' in lowercase pink letters, followed by 'babee' in lowercase pink letters, then '<3' in pink pixels. Above the left text block is a cyan pixelated heart symbol. The right text block has no heart. Both text blocks use 8-bit style font with rounded edges and solid fill. Background is plain white.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols in pink and cyan on white background, with a cyan heart above the left text block.

Identity Hypotheses

  • lauren

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

  • lauren

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lauren babee <3
  • cyan heart pink text
  • pixelated lauren babee
  • <3 symbol cyan heart

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • lauren
  • babee
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • lauren

Wordwall

  • cyan heart
  • <3 symbol
  • pink lowercase letters
  • pixelated text
  • two identical text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071023175447473534768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
236 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/53/5361f1514ce7cdaa70b4631b68d2a8fec27ddf72bc8579d52b550a9ad9ceca9e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
5361f1514ce7cdaa
SHA-256
5361f1514ce7cdaa70b4631b68d2a8fec27ddf72bc8579d52b550a9ad9ceca9e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086529

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols in pink and cyan on white background, with a cyan heart above the left text block.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:20 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,077 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 565

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • rounded font (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • heart above left block

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated text blocks side-by-side. Each contains 'lauren' in lowercase pink letters, followed by 'babee' in lowercase pink letters, then '<3' in pink pixels. Above the left text block is a cyan pixelated heart symbol. The right text block has no heart. Both text blocks use 8-bit style font with rounded edges and solid fill. Background is plain white.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols in pink and cyan on white background, with a cyan heart above the left text block.

Identity Hypotheses

  • lauren

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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • lauren

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lauren babee <3
  • cyan heart pink text
  • pixelated lauren babee
  • <3 symbol cyan heart

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • rounded font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • lauren
  • babee
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • lauren

Wordwall

  • cyan heart
  • <3 symbol
  • pink lowercase letters
  • pixelated text
  • two identical text blocks
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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
20071023175447473534768
Archive entry
20071023175447473534768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071023175447473534768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071023175447473534768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016