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small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font

small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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About this icon

Animation

static
no visible motion

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes; the image appears static with consistent text and across all observations

Composition

central text overlay
repeated icon patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of small, colorful pixelated icons arranged in rows and columns. Overlaid in the center is bold, black-outlined white text reading 'i<3u', with the '3' stylized as a heart symbol. The text appears in a pixelated font consistent with early digital graphics. The grid background consists of various small icons with diverse colors including red, green, blue, yellow, and pink. The bottom-left corner features a separate instance of the 'i<3u' text with a smaller '3' and a period. The overall composition is dense with repeated icon patterns and the central text overlay.

Description

small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font

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

Metadata Only Entities

franksicons
2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

i<3u
pixelated i<3u text
buddy
heart symbol text
early internet
repeated icon patterns
black outlined white text
nostalgic digital graphics

Objects

text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

no animation detected
text appears consistent across all frames
quarantined description: A grid of small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font.
quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; the image appears static with consistent text and icon grid across all observations.
quarantined wordwall: grid of small pixelated icons
quarantined subjects: icon grid
quarantined objects: icon grid
quarantined composition: grid layout
quarantined retrieval: early internet icon grid
quarantined retrieval: buddy icon grid
quarantined retrieval: i<3u icon grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

provenance era: 2007
provenance era: 2016
provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
provenance collection-attribute: aim
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
provenance topic-coverage: anime
provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
provenance topic-coverage: games

Visible Text

i<3u

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small pixelated icons
central text overlay
i<3u text
heart symbol in '3'
black-outlined white text
diverse icon colors
red green blue yellow pink icons
bottom-left text instance
pixelated font style
repeated icon patterns

Source & archive date

Added to archive: July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title: 20080915123355180525726
Era: Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title: 20080915123357840370764
Era: Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details

Format: GIF
Dimensions: 48×48 pixels
File size: 4.3 KB
Motion: Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive: July 12, 2026
Relative path: icons/9e/9ea0d4259fdffcc6849d9e7f6090d40a74ce0c45977745a745c589d0e77b3121.gif
Media type: image/gif
Scanner metadata: v1
Animation inspected: July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID: 9ea0d4259fdffcc6
SHA-256: 9ea0d4259fdffcc6849d9e7f6090d40a74ce0c45977745a745c589d0e77b3121

Content-safety assessments (2)

openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow

Assessed: August 9, 2026 at 10:44 UTC
Run: 1278
Input: image+text
Preprocessing: contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label: not-flagged
Overall score: 0.010153

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad

Assessed: July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run: 1135
Input: image
Preprocessing: four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label: sfw
Overall score: 0.202994

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)

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small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font

Reviewed: August 18, 2026 at 00:21 UTC
Run: 61
Version: v5
Elapsed: 10,900 ms
Tokens: prompt 2,155, response 907

Animation

static
no visible motion

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes; the image appears static with consistent text and across all observations

Colors

black
white
red
green
blue
yellow
pink

Composition

central text overlay
repeated icon patterns

Dense Caption

Description

small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font

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

Metadata Only Entities

franksicons
2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

nostalgic
playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

i<3u
pixelated i<3u text
buddy
heart symbol text
early internet
repeated icon patterns
black outlined white text
nostalgic digital graphics

Objects

text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

no animation detected
text appears consistent across all frames
quarantined description: A grid of small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font.
quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; the image appears static with consistent text and icon grid across all observations.
quarantined wordwall: grid of small pixelated icons
quarantined subjects: icon grid
quarantined objects: icon grid
quarantined composition: grid layout
quarantined retrieval: early internet icon grid
quarantined retrieval: buddy icon grid
quarantined retrieval: i<3u icon grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

provenance era: 2007
provenance era: 2016
provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
provenance collection-attribute: aim
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
provenance topic-coverage: anime
provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

pixelated
digital graphics
early internet

Subjects

text

Visible Text

i<3u

Wordwall

small pixelated icons
central text overlay
i<3u text
heart symbol in '3'
black-outlined white text
diverse icon colors
red green blue yellow pink icons
bottom-left text instance
pixelated font style
repeated icon patterns

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Full source records (2)

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: 20080915123355180525726
Archive entry: 20080915123355180525726.gif
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080915123355180525726.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080915123355180525726.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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: 20080915123357840370764
Archive entry: 20080915123357840370764.gif
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080915123357840370764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080915123357840370764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

small icons with a central text overlay showing 'i<3u' in bold black and white pixelated font

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