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Four identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying '<3 CANDY' text with a vertical line above the heart symbol.

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Four identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying '<3 CANDY' text with a vertical line above the heart symbol.

Four identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying '<3 CANDY' text with a vertical line above the heart symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • horizontal light pink bar appears in top-left and bottom-left positions across observations

Animation Summary

  • Horizontal light pink bar appears in top-left and bottom-left positions across observations.

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • text centered on icons

Dense Caption

<3 CANDY text in white pixelated font; four instances arranged in 2x2 grid; bright pink solid background; light pink rectangular bar appears at top-left and bottom-left positions across observations; vertical white line positioned directly above '<3' on all icons; each icon's layout is identical except for the presence of a horizontal bar in two corners.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying '<3 CANDY' text with a vertical line above the heart symbol.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802031631301262116209

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 candy pixelated
  • pink background white text
  • light pink bar animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3
  • CANDY

Wordwall

  • <3 CANDY
  • white text
  • pink background
  • pixelated font
  • vertical line
  • light pink bar

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802031631301262116209
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/65033a7c54a9a3aea52e7f15903b16fefd5259f5a6c2472c291732d44e559104.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
65033a7c54a9a3ae
SHA-256
65033a7c54a9a3aea52e7f15903b16fefd5259f5a6c2472c291732d44e559104
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116617

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying '<3 CANDY' text with a vertical line above the heart symbol.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,651 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 666

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • horizontal light pink bar (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • candy text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • horizontal light pink bar appears in top-left and bottom-left positions across observations

Animation Summary

  • Horizontal light pink bar appears in top-left and bottom-left positions across observations.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • white
  • light pink

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • text centered on icons

Dense Caption

<3 CANDY text in white pixelated font; four instances arranged in 2x2 grid; bright pink solid background; light pink rectangular bar appears at top-left and bottom-left positions across observations; vertical white line positioned directly above '<3' on all icons; each icon's layout is identical except for the presence of a horizontal bar in two corners.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying '<3 CANDY' text with a vertical line above the heart symbol.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802031631301262116209

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 candy pixelated
  • pink background white text
  • light pink bar animation

Objects

  • horizontal light pink bar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • <3 symbol
  • CANDY text

Visible Text

  • <3
  • CANDY

Wordwall

  • <3 CANDY
  • white text
  • pink background
  • pixelated font
  • vertical line
  • light pink bar
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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
200802031631301262116209
Archive entry
200802031631301262116209.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802031631301262116209.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802031631301262116209.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016