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Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center.

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Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center.

Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • static image

Composition

  • central face
  • bottom center symbol

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center. The character's face is the central focus, with a dark brown background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance. The red '<3' symbol is positioned below the character's chin. The character's expression is cheerful and friendly.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709012253521724076024

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character smiling red <3 symbol
  • light brown hair white top
  • pixelated retro digital
  • cheerful friendly mood

Objects

  • <3 symbol

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • white top
  • smiling
  • eyes closed
  • red <3 symbol
  • dark brown background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709012253521724076024
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/6450a18c9ceedf6aa6fc6e04bd81a0c3466085edf9075c1753cec8ba3bd18e0c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
6450a18c9ceedf6a
SHA-256
6450a18c9ceedf6aa6fc6e04bd81a0c3466085edf9075c1753cec8ba3bd18e0c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072655

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,766 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 652

Review tags

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  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • smiling

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • static image

Colors

  • light brown
  • white
  • red
  • dark brown

Composition

  • central face
  • bottom center symbol

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center. The character's face is the central focus, with a dark brown background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance. The red '<3' symbol is positioned below the character's chin. The character's expression is cheerful and friendly.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with light brown hair and a white top, smiling with eyes closed, red '<3' symbol at bottom center.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709012253521724076024

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character smiling red <3 symbol
  • light brown hair white top
  • pixelated retro digital
  • cheerful friendly mood

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

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  • white top
  • smiling
  • eyes closed
  • red <3 symbol
  • dark brown background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:55 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200709012253521724076024
Archive entry
200709012253521724076024.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709012253521724076024.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709012253521724076024.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016