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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and side-swept bangs, wearing a gray collared shirt against a white background.

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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and side-swept bangs, wearing a gray collared shirt against a white background.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes: 'PETE' → 'WENTZ' → five '<3' symbols vertically aligned on left face

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'PETE' to 'WENTZ', then transitions to five vertical '<3' symbols on the left side of the face.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid background
  • text positioned above or to the side of head

Dense Caption

The icon shows a single individual with short dark brown hair styled in side-swept bangs. The subject wears a light gray collared shirt. In the top-left view, yellow text 'PETE' appears above the head; in the top-right view, yellow text 'WENTZ' appears above the head; in the bottom-left view, five vertical yellow '<3' symbols appear on the left side of the face. The background is solid white with slight pixelation artifacts. All views share identical facial features and clothing.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and side-swept bangs, wearing a gray collared shirt against a white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • <3

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712280919251299150210
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pete wentz <3
  • <3 pete wentz
  • buddy icon with text change
  • yellow text pete wentz

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • PETE
  • WENTZ
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3

Wordwall

  • <3
  • PETE
  • WENTZ

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712280919251299150210
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/9604b6b7c5d0451fb341d8aa9104888d5849b13a288dccb1534d2faeb6ff7b2a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
9604b6b7c5d0451f
SHA-256
9604b6b7c5d0451fb341d8aa9104888d5849b13a288dccb1534d2faeb6ff7b2a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075371

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and side-swept bangs, wearing a gray collared shirt against a white background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,534 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 676

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes: 'PETE' → 'WENTZ' → five '<3' symbols vertically aligned on left face

Animation Summary

  • Text above the head changes from 'PETE' to 'WENTZ', then transitions to five vertical '<3' symbols on the left side of the face.

Colors

  • yellow
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid background
  • text positioned above or to the side of head

Dense Caption

The icon shows a single individual with short dark brown hair styled in side-swept bangs. The subject wears a light gray collared shirt. In the top-left view, yellow text 'PETE' appears above the head; in the top-right view, yellow text 'WENTZ' appears above the head; in the bottom-left view, five vertical yellow '<3' symbols appear on the left side of the face. The background is solid white with slight pixelation artifacts. All views share identical facial features and clothing.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with dark hair and side-swept bangs, wearing a gray collared shirt against a white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • <3

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712280919251299150210
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pete wentz <3
  • <3 pete wentz
  • buddy icon with text change
  • yellow text pete wentz

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • PETE
  • WENTZ
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3

Wordwall

  • <3
  • PETE
  • WENTZ
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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
200712280919251299150210
Archive entry
200712280919251299150210.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712280919251299150210.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712280919251299150210.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016