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A static pixel art image with a pink heart symbol above digital text displaying '3.26.08 <3' on a black background.

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A static pixel art image with a pink heart symbol above digital text displaying '3.26.08 <3' on a black background.

A static pixel art image with a pink heart symbol above digital text displaying '3.26.08 <3' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered horizontal layout
  • single line of text above heart symbol

Dense Caption

Black background displays a single row of white pixelated numerals and symbols: '3.26.08 <3'. Above this line, centered horizontally, is a solid bright pink heart symbol composed of blocky pixels. The text uses a digital font style with rounded edges on the numbers and less distinct <3 character. All elements are static; no animation or motion changes observed.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a pink heart symbol above digital text displaying '3.26.08 <3' on a black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 3.26.08 <3
  • pink heart digital text
  • black background pixel art
  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all elements static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • 3.26.08 <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • date '3.26.08'
  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • white pixelated numerals
  • '3.26.08' text
  • '<3' symbol
  • digital font style
  • centered composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803280644061026986068
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
783 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5d37e59c1e0825721863625b4dc3e12c0a3e3040d4b8536e9bc1878755a8061a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
5d37e59c1e082572
SHA-256
5d37e59c1e0825721863625b4dc3e12c0a3e3040d4b8536e9bc1878755a8061a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081185

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with a pink heart symbol above digital text displaying '3.26.08 <3' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:39 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,958 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,151, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • digital font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • centered horizontal layout
  • single line of text above heart symbol

Dense Caption

Black background displays a single row of white pixelated numerals and symbols: '3.26.08 <3'. Above this line, centered horizontally, is a solid bright pink heart symbol composed of blocky pixels. The text uses a digital font style with rounded edges on the numbers and less distinct <3 character. All elements are static; no animation or motion changes observed.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a pink heart symbol above digital text displaying '3.26.08 <3' on a black background.

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
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 3.26.08 <3
  • pink heart digital text
  • black background pixel art
  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all elements static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only

Style

  • pixel art
  • digital font
  • static image

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • 3.26.08 <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • date '3.26.08'
  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink heart symbol
  • white pixelated numerals
  • '3.26.08' text
  • '<3' symbol
  • digital font style
  • centered composition
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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
200803280644061026986068
Archive entry
200803280644061026986068.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803280644061026986068.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803280644061026986068.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016