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Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on white background.

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Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on white background.

Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Composition

  • text above symbol
  • two-line text
  • left-right alignment
  • centered symbol

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text in grayscale: 'less than three you' arranged in two lines. The top line reads 'less than' with 'less' left-aligned and 'than' right-aligned. The bottom line reads 'three you' with 'three' left-aligned and 'you' right-aligned. Below the text, there is a pink '<3' symbol composed of pixelated lines. The background is solid white. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • grayscale text
  • pixelated icon
  • text and symbol
  • two-line text
  • left-right alignment
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • less than three you

Wordwall

  • grayscale text
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • solid white background
  • pixelated rendering
  • two-line text layout
  • left-aligned 'less' and 'three'
  • right-aligned 'than' and 'you'
  • <3 symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708090801522133039820
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90e24e33204693e86268845b4b15a671c0f0327d725071a155d1dcd8cfac27c1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
90e24e33204693e8
SHA-256
90e24e33204693e86268845b4b15a671c0f0327d725071a155d1dcd8cfac27c1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092649

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

Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,584 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 638

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • gray
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • text above symbol
  • two-line text
  • left-right alignment
  • centered symbol

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text in grayscale: 'less than three you' arranged in two lines. The top line reads 'less than' with 'less' left-aligned and 'than' right-aligned. The bottom line reads 'three you' with 'three' left-aligned and 'you' right-aligned. Below the text, there is a pink '<3' symbol composed of pixelated lines. The background is solid white. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • grayscale text
  • pixelated icon
  • text and symbol
  • two-line text
  • left-right alignment
  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • less than three you

Wordwall

  • grayscale text
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • solid white background
  • pixelated rendering
  • two-line text layout
  • left-aligned 'less' and 'three'
  • right-aligned 'than' and 'you'
  • <3 symbol
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:58 UTC
Run
52
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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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708090801522133039820
Archive entry
200708090801522133039820.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708090801522133039820.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708090801522133039820.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016