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Pixelated pink background with white text 'mr. varner' and '<3' symbols above, two cyan heart icons at bottom center-right.

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Pixelated pink background with white text 'mr. varner' and '<3' symbols above, two cyan heart icons at bottom center-right.

Pixelated pink background with white text 'mr. varner' and '<3' symbols above, two cyan heart icons at bottom center-right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical text layout
  • two hearts at bottom

Dense Caption

<3 symbol appears in top-left and top-right corners; 'mr.' text is centered horizontally below each <3 symbol; 'varner' text is centered horizontally below 'mr.' with a period after 'mr'; all text uses white pixelated font on pink background; two cyan heart icons are positioned at bottom center and bottom right, both rendered in 8x8 pixel grid style; no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white text 'mr. varner' and '<3' symbols above, two cyan heart icons at bottom center-right.

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

  • <3 mr. varner cyan hearts
  • pink background pixel art
  • 8-bit text hearts
  • mr. varner <3 cyan

Visible Text

  • <3
  • mr.
  • varner

Visually Supported Entities

  • mr. varner

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • mr. varner text
  • cyan hearts
  • pink background
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803271000102109460014
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
757 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c7eb9aae4699341f12fe7fc3a9fac905ccb3339e6d68a1ae81700577f1daf09.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
9c7eb9aae4699341
SHA-256
9c7eb9aae4699341f12fe7fc3a9fac905ccb3339e6d68a1ae81700577f1daf09
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.060039

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink background with white text 'mr. varner' and '<3' symbols above, two cyan heart icons at bottom center-right.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:25 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,813 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 565

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • symmetrical text layout
  • two hearts at bottom

Dense Caption

<3 symbol appears in top-left and top-right corners; 'mr.' text is centered horizontally below each <3 symbol; 'varner' text is centered horizontally below 'mr.' with a period after 'mr'; all text uses white pixelated font on pink background; two cyan heart icons are positioned at bottom center and bottom right, both rendered in 8x8 pixel grid style; no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with white text 'mr. varner' and '<3' symbols above, two cyan heart icons at bottom center-right.

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 mr. varner cyan hearts
  • pink background pixel art
  • 8-bit text hearts
  • mr. varner <3 cyan

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • <3
  • mr.
  • varner

Visually Supported Entities

  • mr. varner

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • mr. varner text
  • cyan hearts
  • pink background
  • pixelated font
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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
200803271000102109460014
Archive entry
200803271000102109460014.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803271000102109460014.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803271000102109460014.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016