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A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red with black text reading "I <3 you"

A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red with black text reading "I <3 you". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left: person close-up
  • right: solid color

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically into two sections. The left section shows a pixelated close-up of a person with long light brown hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression, wearing a dark top against a blurred greenish-brown background. The right section is a solid bright red rectangle with black pixelated text reading "I <3 you" in a retro digital font. The left section has visible pixelation and low resolution, while the right section is a flat color with no texture. The text uses a less-than symbol followed by a heart symbol to represent "love".

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red with black text reading "I <3 you"

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with long brown hair
  • I love you text
  • red background text
  • pixelated close-up
  • split composition
  • retro digital font
  • heart symbol text
  • closed eyes person

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red panel with black text reading "I <3 you".
  • quarantined wordwall: red panel
  • quarantined composition: right: solid color panel

Visible Text

  • I <3 you

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • long brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark top
  • blurred background
  • red
  • black text
  • I <3 you
  • retro digital font
  • split composition
  • low resolution
  • solid color background
  • heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805132641461359801
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7bfa582ee10a6482b6117f15d2dae7d1e66036b1c1a58c5ec390b760bdf4698f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
7bfa582ee10a6482
SHA-256
7bfa582ee10a6482b6117f15d2dae7d1e66036b1c1a58c5ec390b760bdf4698f
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 11:52 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016086

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
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1074
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red with black text reading "I <3 you"

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,831 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 728

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • split composition (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • brown
  • green
  • beige

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left: person close-up
  • right: solid color

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically into two sections. The left section shows a pixelated close-up of a person with long light brown hair, closed eyes, and a neutral expression, wearing a dark top against a blurred greenish-brown background. The right section is a solid bright red rectangle with black pixelated text reading "I <3 you" in a retro digital font. The left section has visible pixelation and low resolution, while the right section is a flat color with no texture. The text uses a less-than symbol followed by a heart symbol to represent "love".

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red with black text reading "I <3 you"

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person with long brown hair
  • I love you text
  • red background text
  • pixelated close-up
  • split composition
  • retro digital font
  • heart symbol text
  • closed eyes person

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A pixelated image of a person with long brown hair against a blurred background, next to a red panel with black text reading "I <3 you".
  • quarantined wordwall: red panel
  • quarantined composition: right: solid color panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • split composition

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I <3 you

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • long brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark top
  • blurred background
  • red
  • black text
  • I <3 you
  • retro digital font
  • split composition
  • low resolution
  • solid color background
  • heart symbol
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:28 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070805132641461359801
Archive entry
20070805132641461359801.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070805132641461359801.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805132641461359801.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016