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<3 <3 <3 on bright green background with gray rectangle in bottom right corner.

<3 <3 <3 on bright green background with gray rectangle in bottom right corner. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • three <3 symbols
  • green background
  • gray rectangle in bottom right

Dense Caption

Bright green background occupies most of the image. Three identical black '<3' symbols are present: two horizontally aligned at top, one below left. Each symbol consists of a left-pointing chevron and number '3'. A solid gray rectangle fills the bottom-right quadrant. The symbols have rounded edges with slight pixelation. All elements maintain consistent size and spacing across visible portions.

Description

  • <3 <3 <3 on bright green background with gray rectangle in bottom right corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 green gray
  • <3 symbols bright green
  • green background <3 gray rectangle
  • pixelated <3 icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static content.

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints, but pixel evidence shows only a single static icon without supporting context for those claims.

Visible Text

  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbols

Wordwall

  • <3
  • green background
  • gray rectangle
  • chevron
  • number 3
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805231308152048264025
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7eb651409b61974f8cf3f81f816251118054ada5585c3504f2786d65604afeb0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
7eb651409b61974f
SHA-256
7eb651409b61974f8cf3f81f816251118054ada5585c3504f2786d65604afeb0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1087
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.061426

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.938574onnx/unsafe0.061426onnx/nsfw0.031199onnx/nsfl0.030227
Enrichment records (1)
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<3 <3 <3 on bright green background with gray rectangle in bottom right corner.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:22 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,561 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 601

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simple (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • bright green
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three <3 symbols
  • green background
  • gray rectangle in bottom right

Dense Caption

Bright green background occupies most of the image. Three identical black '<3' symbols are present: two horizontally aligned at top, one below left. Each symbol consists of a left-pointing chevron and number '3'. A solid gray rectangle fills the bottom-right quadrant. The symbols have rounded edges with slight pixelation. All elements maintain consistent size and spacing across visible portions.

Description

  • <3 <3 <3 on bright green background with gray rectangle in bottom right corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • animated
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 green gray
  • <3 symbols bright green
  • green background <3 gray rectangle
  • pixelated <3 icons

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; source metadata claims 'animated' but pixels show static content.

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints, but pixel evidence shows only a single static icon without supporting context for those claims.

Style

  • pixelated
  • simple
  • text-based

Subjects

  • <3 symbols

Visible Text

  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbols

Wordwall

  • <3
  • green background
  • gray rectangle
  • chevron
  • number 3
  • pixelated
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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
200805231308152048264025
Archive entry
200805231308152048264025.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#200805231308152048264025.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805231308152048264025.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016