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Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: two 'i' characters, a heart, a '<3' symbol, and the word 'bret' in lowercase.

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Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: two 'i' characters, a heart, a '<3' symbol, and the word 'bret' in lowercase.

Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: two 'i' characters, a heart, a '<3' symbol, and the word 'bret' in lowercase. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical side-by-side sections

Dense Caption

Pink background with white pixelated text and symbols. Left side: top 'i', center '<3', bottom 'bret'. Right side: top 'i', center '<3', bottom 'bret'. Center top: pink heart symbol. All elements are static. Text is lowercase except for 'i' and '<3'.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: two 'i' characters, a heart, a '<3' symbol, and the word 'bret' in lowercase.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text
  • i <3 bret
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical sections
  • lowercase bret
  • white i characters

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • bret

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • i characters
  • <3 symbols
  • bret text
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • static
  • lowercase text
  • two identical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080618164556811944198
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
208 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/856ab68d2e2a44754f8e5d356717172c10db61110dc3ad7044aca99dc3efa125.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
856ab68d2e2a4475
SHA-256
856ab68d2e2a44754f8e5d356717172c10db61110dc3ad7044aca99dc3efa125
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:52 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080416

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: two 'i' characters, a heart, a '<3' symbol, and the word 'bret' in lowercase.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,195 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 576

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical side-by-side sections

Dense Caption

Pink background with white pixelated text and symbols. Left side: top 'i', center '<3', bottom 'bret'. Right side: top 'i', center '<3', bottom 'bret'. Center top: pink heart symbol. All elements are static. Text is lowercase except for 'i' and '<3'.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white text and symbols: two 'i' characters, a heart, a '<3' symbol, and the word 'bret' in lowercase.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text
  • i <3 bret
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • symmetrical layout
  • two identical sections
  • lowercase bret
  • white i characters

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • bret

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • i characters
  • <3 symbols
  • bret text
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • static
  • lowercase text
  • two identical sections
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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
20080618164556811944198
Archive entry
20080618164556811944198.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#20080618164556811944198.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080618164556811944198.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016