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Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with two heart shapes at the bottom.

Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with two heart shapes at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text block
  • two hearts below
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Pink background displays black pixelated text 'Sam' repeated three times vertically, each flanked by '<3' symbols. Two identical pixelated hearts appear below the text block: one solid filled center, one hollow outline. All elements are static in a grid-like composition with consistent spacing between rows and columns.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with two heart shapes at the bottom.

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 pixelated Sam hearts
  • Sam <3 two hearts
  • pixelated text pink heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined retrieval: Sam <3 two hearts grid layout

Visible Text

  • Sam
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sam

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'Sam'
  • <3 symbol
  • two heart shapes
  • solid heart
  • hollow heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071209164453883660451
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
207 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8e475f981e2fa9cded3ad2008eca5d02814ec3fc4f216fa76e60d98b2a2a1ecc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
8e475f981e2fa9cd
SHA-256
8e475f981e2fa9cded3ad2008eca5d02814ec3fc4f216fa76e60d98b2a2a1ecc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074365

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with two heart shapes at the bottom.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:48 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,849 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 534

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • composition (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text sam (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • vertical text block
  • two hearts below
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Pink background displays black pixelated text 'Sam' repeated three times vertically, each flanked by '<3' symbols. Two identical pixelated hearts appear below the text block: one solid filled center, one hollow outline. All elements are static in a grid-like composition with consistent spacing between rows and columns.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a pink background with two heart shapes at the bottom.

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
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background pixelated Sam hearts
  • Sam <3 two hearts
  • pixelated text pink heart symbols

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined retrieval: Sam <3 two hearts grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • composition

Subjects

  • text 'Sam'
  • <3 symbols
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • Sam
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sam

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'Sam'
  • <3 symbol
  • two heart shapes
  • solid heart
  • hollow heart
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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
20071209164453883660451
Archive entry
20071209164453883660451.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#20071209164453883660451.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071209164453883660451.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016