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Pixelated buddy icon with teal mermaid tail, pink heart, green leaf, and black text boxes reading "i love you brendan" on left and "always baby! <3" on right.

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Pixelated buddy icon with teal mermaid tail, pink heart, green leaf, and black text boxes reading "i love you brendan" on left and "always baby! <3" on right.

Pixelated buddy icon with teal mermaid tail, pink heart, green leaf, and black text boxes reading "i love you brendan" on left and "always baby! <3" on right. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • scattered pixel clusters
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated text blocks on a white background. Left block: black rectangular text boxes with white pixelated text "i love you brendan"; above it a teal mermaid tail with two fins, a pink heart, and scattered gray pixel clusters. Right block: black rectangular text boxes with white pixelated text "always baby! <3"; above it a teal mermaid tail with two fins, a pink heart, and scattered gray pixel clusters. Both blocks have green leaf shapes below the text. The right block's text is slightly more pixelated than the left block's text. Gray pixel clusters are scattered around both blocks.

Description

Pixelated buddy icon with teal mermaid tail, pink heart, green leaf, and black text boxes reading "i love you brendan" on left and "always baby! <3" on right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • brendan

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brendan mermaid heart
  • always baby <3
  • i love you brendan
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • teal mermaid tail
  • pink heart
  • green leaf
  • buddy icon text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

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

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • i love you brendan
  • always baby! <3

Wordwall

  • teal mermaid tail
  • pink heart
  • green leaf
  • black text boxes
  • white pixelated text
  • gray pixel clusters
  • pixelated text
  • two text blocks
  • white background
  • "i love you brendan"
  • "always baby! <3"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810061229471431050064
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810061229481367931302
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/61dec15029919c0b707c37666c73d6d5b3ef6e3231f0bb2e5823c2fe32b333d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
61dec15029919c0b
SHA-256
61dec15029919c0b707c37666c73d6d5b3ef6e3231f0bb2e5823c2fe32b333d5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079690

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922796onnx/unsafe0.079690onnx/nsfw0.045921onnx/nsfl0.033769
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated buddy icon with teal mermaid tail, pink heart, green leaf, and black text boxes reading "i love you brendan" on left and "always baby! <3" on right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,795 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,193, response 827

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text boxes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • leaf (subject, 0.80)
  • mermaid tail (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • teal
  • pink
  • green
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • scattered pixel clusters
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated text blocks on a white background. Left block: black rectangular text boxes with white pixelated text "i love you brendan"; above it a teal mermaid tail with two fins, a pink heart, and scattered gray pixel clusters. Right block: black rectangular text boxes with white pixelated text "always baby! <3"; above it a teal mermaid tail with two fins, a pink heart, and scattered gray pixel clusters. Both blocks have green leaf shapes below the text. The right block's text is slightly more pixelated than the left block's text. Gray pixel clusters are scattered around both blocks.

Description

Pixelated buddy icon with teal mermaid tail, pink heart, green leaf, and black text boxes reading "i love you brendan" on left and "always baby! <3" on right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • brendan

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brendan mermaid heart
  • always baby <3
  • i love you brendan
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • teal mermaid tail
  • pink heart
  • green leaf
  • buddy icon text

Objects

  • text boxes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • buddy icon
  • text-based

Subjects

  • mermaid tail
  • heart
  • leaf

Visible Text

  • i love you brendan
  • always baby! <3

Wordwall

  • teal mermaid tail
  • pink heart
  • green leaf
  • black text boxes
  • white pixelated text
  • gray pixel clusters
  • pixelated text
  • two text blocks
  • white background
  • "i love you brendan"
  • "always baby! <3"
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Full source records (2)

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
200810061229471431050064
Archive entry
200810061229471431050064.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810061229471431050064.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810061229471431050064.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200810061229481367931302
Archive entry
200810061229481367931302.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810061229481367931302.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810061229481367931302.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016