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Pixelated white text '3M!Ly' and '<3' above red pixel hearts on black background, with identical left and right sides.

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Pixelated white text '3M!Ly' and '<3' above red pixel hearts on black background, with identical left and right sides.

Pixelated white text '3M!Ly' and '<3' above red pixel hearts on black background, with identical left and right sides. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical sections side-by-side
  • text above hearts

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical side-by-side sections each contain white pixelated text: '3M!Ly' in a blocky font at the top, followed by '<3' below it. Each section has one red pixel heart beneath its lower text. The hearts are solid red with black interior pixels forming their shape. All elements use 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated white text '3M!Ly' and '<3' above red pixel hearts on black background, with identical left and right sides.

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
  • 200803251123091912107007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 3M!Ly <3 hearts
  • pixelated 3M!Ly hearts
  • white text red hearts black background
  • symmetrical pixel hearts

Visible Text

  • 3M!Ly
  • <3

Wordwall

  • white text
  • '3M!Ly'
  • '<3'
  • red pixel hearts
  • black background
  • identical left and right sections
  • blocky font
  • solid red hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803251123091912107007
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
207 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
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 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
701dc18b561e2a7b
SHA-256
701dc18b561e2a7b497580142f49bb3cf9a4b9e840abc246bd2efa24b07c3072
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089836

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text '3M!Ly' and '<3' above red pixel hearts on black background, with identical left and right sides.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 10:16 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,978 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical sections side-by-side
  • text above hearts

Dense Caption

Black background. Two identical side-by-side sections each contain white pixelated text: '3M!Ly' in a blocky font at the top, followed by '<3' below it. Each section has one red pixel heart beneath its lower text. The hearts are solid red with black interior pixels forming their shape. All elements use 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated white text '3M!Ly' and '<3' above red pixel hearts on black background, with identical left and right sides.

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
  • 200803251123091912107007

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 3M!Ly <3 hearts
  • pixelated 3M!Ly hearts
  • white text red hearts black background
  • symmetrical pixel hearts

Objects

  • text
  • hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • 3M!Ly
  • <3

Wordwall

  • white text
  • '3M!Ly'
  • '<3'
  • red pixel hearts
  • black background
  • identical left and right sections
  • blocky font
  • solid red hearts
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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
200803251123091912107007
Archive entry
200803251123091912107007.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#200803251123091912107007.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803251123091912107007.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016