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Light blue text reading 'Pls e <3' repeats across a white background with a blue pixelated border at the top and bottom.

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Light blue text reading 'Pls e <3' repeats across a white background with a blue pixelated border at the top and bottom.

Light blue text reading 'Pls e <3' repeats across a white background with a blue pixelated border at the top and bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • top and bottom borders
  • right-side partial obstruction

Dense Caption

Light blue text 'Pls e <3' repeats horizontally across a white background. A solid blue pixelated border runs along the top edge, featuring small white 'Y' shapes. A similar blue pixelated border runs along the bottom edge. The right side of the image is partially obscured by a gray rectangle. The text and borders are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Light blue text reading 'Pls e <3' repeats across a white background with a blue pixelated border at the top and 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue text 'Pls e <3'
  • blue pixelated border
  • white background
  • gray rectangle right side

Visible Text

  • Pls e <3

Wordwall

  • light blue text
  • 'Pls e <3'
  • white background
  • blue pixelated border
  • small white 'Y' shapes
  • gray rectangle obscures right side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906211420461336482790
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
964 bytes
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
96806fcd4ecca14f
SHA-256
96806fcd4ecca14ff6a7638d7193d7111d876356d2fa6a769e56c3320fcd2dfc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087948

OpenAI category scores

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Light blue text reading 'Pls e <3' repeats across a white background with a blue pixelated border at the top and bottom.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,531 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 632

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text repetition
  • top and bottom borders
  • right-side partial obstruction

Dense Caption

Light blue text 'Pls e <3' repeats horizontally across a white background. A solid blue pixelated border runs along the top edge, featuring small white 'Y' shapes. A similar blue pixelated border runs along the bottom edge. The right side of the image is partially obscured by a gray rectangle. The text and borders are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Light blue text reading 'Pls e <3' repeats across a white background with a blue pixelated border at the top and 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue text 'Pls e <3'
  • blue pixelated border
  • white background
  • gray rectangle right side

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • Pls e <3

Wordwall

  • light blue text
  • 'Pls e <3'
  • white background
  • blue pixelated border
  • small white 'Y' shapes
  • gray rectangle obscures right side
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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
200906211420461336482790
Archive entry
200906211420461336482790.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906211420461336482790.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906211420461336482790.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016