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Pixelated icon with bright pink background, blue hearts, and black text elements including 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' arranged in repeating patterns.

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Pixelated icon with bright pink background, blue hearts, and black text elements including 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' arranged in repeating patterns.

Pixelated icon with bright pink background, blue hearts, and black text elements including 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' arranged in repeating patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; the icon appears static with consistent pixel patterns throughout all frames.

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • full-frame

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with blue pixelated hearts. Black text elements include 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' in a repeating pattern. The text 'i' appears above '<3', which appears above 'pencil'. Some hearts are solid blue, others are blurred or partially obscured. The icon has a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style. The text and heart patterns repeat across the entire visible area. The icon is static with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

Pixelated icon with bright pink background, blue hearts, and black text elements including 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' arranged in repeating patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue hearts i <3 pencil
  • pixelated i <3 pencil hearts
  • blue hearts pink background text
  • retro digital i <3 pencil
  • repeating pattern blue hearts pink
  • low-resolution i <3 pencil hearts
  • pixel art blue hearts pink background
  • i <3 pencil blue hearts pink

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • pencil

Wordwall

  • blue hearts
  • pink background
  • black text
  • i <3 pencil
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • solid hearts
  • blurred hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001310528452075792764
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
9fcb2267450917f6
SHA-256
9fcb2267450917f6b92c2727c1285516cc24b2513a6f6502429c679aade2fe73
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090101

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with bright pink background, blue hearts, and black text elements including 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' arranged in repeating patterns.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,545 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 768

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; the icon appears static with consistent pixel patterns throughout all frames.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • full-frame

Dense Caption

Bright pink background filled with blue pixelated hearts. Black text elements include 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' in a repeating pattern. The text 'i' appears above '<3', which appears above 'pencil'. Some hearts are solid blue, others are blurred or partially obscured. The icon has a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style. The text and heart patterns repeat across the entire visible area. The icon is static with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

Pixelated icon with bright pink background, blue hearts, and black text elements including 'i', '<3', and 'pencil' arranged in repeating patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue hearts i <3 pencil
  • pixelated i <3 pencil hearts
  • blue hearts pink background text
  • retro digital i <3 pencil
  • repeating pattern blue hearts pink
  • low-resolution i <3 pencil hearts
  • pixel art blue hearts pink background
  • i <3 pencil blue hearts pink

Objects

  • hearts

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • pencil

Wordwall

  • blue hearts
  • pink background
  • black text
  • i <3 pencil
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • solid hearts
  • blurred hearts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:04 UTC
Run
61
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)
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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
201001310528452075792764
Archive entry
201001310528452075792764.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201001310528452075792764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001310528452075792764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016