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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, overlaid with red text reading 'My lover <3' in a black rectangular banner.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, overlaid with red text reading 'My lover <3' in a black rectangular banner.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, overlaid with red text reading 'My lover <3' in a black rectangular banner. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • portrait
  • text banner top

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled in a side-parted cut, wearing a collared shirt with a dark tie. The person's face is centered in the frame with a neutral expression, eyes partially closed, and mouth slightly open. A black rectangular banner spans the top of the image containing red pixelated text that reads 'My lover <3'. The background is a light gray gradient. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The text banner is positioned horizontally across the upper portion of the portrait, overlapping the top of the head. The red text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font with a black outline. The <3 symbol is a stylized heart shape. The overall composition is centered with the subject's face as the focal point.

Description

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, overlaid with red text reading 'My lover <3' in a black rectangular banner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200905171358141946565138

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait red text My lover <3
  • person collared shirt dark tie
  • pixelated text banner top
  • neutral expression <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • grayscale conversion

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • My lover <3

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • dark hair
  • collared shirt
  • dark tie
  • neutral expression
  • partially closed eyes
  • slightly open mouth
  • red text
  • black banner
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated font
  • light gray background
  • centered composition
  • low-resolution pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905171358141946565138
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
59e8d9eb914f356d
SHA-256
59e8d9eb914f356d5e8da770533f76d9d23cb5c2ca2e14dcc9d013548b5f2580
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116849

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, overlaid with red text reading 'My lover <3' in a black rectangular banner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 907

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • black banner (object, 0.80)
  • collared shirt (object, 0.80)
  • dark tie (object, 0.80)
  • red text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • centered
  • portrait
  • text banner top

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled in a side-parted cut, wearing a collared shirt with a dark tie. The person's face is centered in the frame with a neutral expression, eyes partially closed, and mouth slightly open. A black rectangular banner spans the top of the image containing red pixelated text that reads 'My lover <3'. The background is a light gray gradient. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics. The text banner is positioned horizontally across the upper portion of the portrait, overlapping the top of the head. The red text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font with a black outline. The <3 symbol is a stylized heart shape. The overall composition is centered with the subject's face as the focal point.

Description

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair and a collared shirt, overlaid with red text reading 'My lover <3' in a black rectangular banner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200905171358141946565138

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait red text My lover <3
  • person collared shirt dark tie
  • pixelated text banner top
  • neutral expression <3 symbol

Objects

  • collared shirt
  • dark tie
  • black banner
  • red text

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • grayscale conversion

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • My lover <3

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • collared shirt
  • dark tie
  • neutral expression
  • partially closed eyes
  • slightly open mouth
  • red text
  • black banner
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated font
  • light gray background
  • centered composition
  • low-resolution pixelation
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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
200905171358141946565138
Archive entry
200905171358141946565138.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905171358141946565138.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905171358141946565138.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016