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Pixelated icon of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes, featuring a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol in the center.

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Pixelated icon of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes, featuring a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol in the center.

Pixelated icon of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes, featuring a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol in the center. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered '<3' symbol
  • horizontal stripes on rounded object

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated, static image of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes. The object has a textured appearance with varying shades of brown and beige. In the center, there is a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol, where the '<' is a left-pointing arrow and the '3' is a stylized number. The background is white, and the icon has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes, featuring a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol in the center.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbol
  • pink arrow 3
  • light brown striped object
  • pixelated retro icon

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 200912302034381508637538
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light brown
  • rounded object
  • horizontal stripes
  • black-outlined
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • left-pointing arrow
  • stylized '3'
  • white background
  • retro digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912302034381508637538
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d3da1e7c85c2ccf8836ed34f29460f18dd9b31d8fbb58e29376dc36393558c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
8d3da1e7c85c2ccf
SHA-256
8d3da1e7c85c2ccf8836ed34f29460f18dd9b31d8fbb58e29376dc36393558c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067382

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes, featuring a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol in the center.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,365 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 758

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • rounded object (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • beige
  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered '<3' symbol
  • horizontal stripes on rounded object

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated, static image of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes. The object has a textured appearance with varying shades of brown and beige. In the center, there is a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol, where the '<' is a left-pointing arrow and the '3' is a stylized number. The background is white, and the icon has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a light brown, rounded object with horizontal stripes, featuring a black-outlined pink '<3' symbol in the center.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbol
  • pink arrow 3
  • light brown striped object
  • pixelated retro icon

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 2007-2016
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: 200912302034381508637538
  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • rounded object
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

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  • light brown
  • rounded object
  • horizontal stripes
  • black-outlined
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • left-pointing arrow
  • stylized '3'
  • white background
  • retro digital art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:50 UTC
Run
61
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
200912302034381508637538
Archive entry
200912302034381508637538.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912302034381508637538.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912302034381508637538.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016