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A pixelated image of two people in a close embrace, with text changing across frames from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'.

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A pixelated image of two people in a close embrace, with text changing across frames from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'.

A pixelated image of two people in a close embrace, with text changing across frames from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3' while the image remains static.

Composition

  • centered subjects
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows two people in a close embrace, both wearing white tops. The person on the left has long brown hair with bangs, and the person on the right has short light brown hair. The background is blurred green foliage. The image is pixelated. Text appears in the lower center: 'little' in the first frame, 'lovers' in the second frame, and '<3' in the third frame. The text changes sequentially across the frames.

Description

  • A pixelated image of two people in a close embrace, with text changing across frames from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'.

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

  • two people embrace
  • text little lovers
  • text little lovers <3
  • affectionate pixelated image
  • white tops brown hair
  • blurred green background
  • text changes little lovers
  • text changes little lovers <3

Visible Text

  • little
  • lovers
  • <3

Wordwall

  • two people
  • close embrace
  • white tops
  • long brown hair
  • short light brown hair
  • blurred green foliage
  • pixelated
  • text changes
  • little
  • lovers
  • <3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711271349091254331883
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9a603f19c62f4ae94f93a51bbca25e0dfb403acb617eb1e048e439426cdf2f40.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
9a603f19c62f4ae9
SHA-256
9a603f19c62f4ae94f93a51bbca25e0dfb403acb617eb1e048e439426cdf2f40
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122136

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated image of two people in a close embrace, with text changing across frames from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,161 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 713

Review tags

  • embrace (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes from little to lovers to 3 (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embrace

Animation

  • text changes from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3' while the image remains static.

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • green

Composition

  • centered subjects
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image shows two people in a close embrace, both wearing white tops. The person on the left has long brown hair with bangs, and the person on the right has short light brown hair. The background is blurred green foliage. The image is pixelated. Text appears in the lower center: 'little' in the first frame, 'lovers' in the second frame, and '<3' in the third frame. The text changes sequentially across the frames.

Description

  • A pixelated image of two people in a close embrace, with text changing across frames from 'little' to 'lovers' to '<3'.

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

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people embrace
  • text little lovers
  • text little lovers <3
  • affectionate pixelated image
  • white tops brown hair
  • blurred green background
  • text changes little lovers
  • text changes little lovers <3

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • two people

Visible Text

  • little
  • lovers
  • <3

Wordwall

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  • close embrace
  • white tops
  • long brown hair
  • short light brown hair
  • blurred green foliage
  • pixelated
  • text changes
  • little
  • lovers
  • <3
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Run
53
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)
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
200711271349091254331883
Archive entry
200711271349091254331883.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711271349091254331883.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711271349091254331883.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016