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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with pink footwear, next to pink text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background.

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Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with pink footwear, next to pink text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background.

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with pink footwear, next to pink text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically; the left side shows a pixelated figure in dark clothing with light-colored hair, wearing pink footwear, against a dark background. The right side has pink pixelated text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background. The figure's pose is seated or crouched. The image uses a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style with a limited color palette of dark grays, light grays, and pink. The text is vertically aligned on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with pink footwear, next to pink text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071124162951573448793

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure pink footwear
  • i luv yew <3
  • vertical split black background
  • low-resolution affectionate text
  • pink text dark clothing
  • seated pose pixelated
  • buddy icon humor
  • franksicons 2007

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • i
  • luv
  • yew
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • dark clothing
  • pink footwear
  • black background
  • pink text
  • i luv yew
  • <3
  • vertical split
  • low-resolution
  • seated pose
  • light-colored hair
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071124162951573448793
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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/80/8042d167d5c9c01f74f1b66aee566e59ee53619d0b187f82d84e55c538eaece9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
8042d167d5c9c01f
SHA-256
8042d167d5c9c01f74f1b66aee566e59ee53619d0b187f82d84e55c538eaece9
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with pink footwear, next to pink text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,609 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 812

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • footwear (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • black

Composition

  • vertical split
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically; the left side shows a pixelated figure in dark clothing with light-colored hair, wearing pink footwear, against a dark background. The right side has pink pixelated text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background. The figure's pose is seated or crouched. The image uses a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style with a limited color palette of dark grays, light grays, and pink. The text is vertically aligned on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person in dark clothing with pink footwear, next to pink text reading 'i luv yew <3' on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071124162951573448793

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated figure pink footwear
  • i luv yew <3
  • vertical split black background
  • low-resolution affectionate text
  • pink text dark clothing
  • seated pose pixelated
  • buddy icon humor
  • franksicons 2007

Objects

  • footwear

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
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Subjects

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Visible Text

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  • yew
  • <3

Wordwall

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  • pink text
  • i luv yew
  • <3
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  • light-colored hair
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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
20071124162951573448793
Archive entry
20071124162951573448793.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071124162951573448793.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071124162951573448793.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016