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Pixelated text 'be yourself' with a heart symbol above and '<3' below, displayed in two identical static frames.

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Pixelated text 'be yourself' with a heart symbol above and '<3' below, displayed in two identical static frames.

Pixelated text 'be yourself' with a heart symbol above and '<3' below, displayed in two identical static frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart above text
  • <3 below text

Dense Caption

The image shows pixelated black text reading 'be yourself' on a white background. Above the word 'yourself', there is a pink pixelated heart symbol. Below the text, there is a pixelated '<3' symbol. The same visual content appears in both left and right sections of the frame. All elements are rendered with low-resolution blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'be yourself' with a heart symbol above and '<3' below, displayed in two identical static frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709241429521915201840

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be yourself pixel art
  • pink heart text icon
  • <3 symbol pixelated
  • low-resolution 'be yourself' graphic

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • be yourself
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • 'be yourself'
  • <3 symbol
  • pink heart
  • white background
  • low-resolution pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709241429521915201840
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
829 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
a016c79174a1afda
SHA-256
a016c79174a1afda6c9471a7284eab59c77ba9bbd66e9a2f41742a16b657a05b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000484

OpenAI category scores

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'be yourself' with a heart symbol above and '<3' below, displayed in two identical static frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,808 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 573

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affirming (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • heart above text
  • <3 below text

Dense Caption

The image shows pixelated black text reading 'be yourself' on a white background. Above the word 'yourself', there is a pink pixelated heart symbol. Below the text, there is a pixelated '<3' symbol. The same visual content appears in both left and right sections of the frame. All elements are rendered with low-resolution blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'be yourself' with a heart symbol above and '<3' below, displayed in two identical static frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709241429521915201840

Mood

  • affirming
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be yourself pixel art
  • pink heart text icon
  • <3 symbol pixelated
  • low-resolution 'be yourself' graphic

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • be yourself
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • 'be yourself'
  • <3 symbol
  • pink heart
  • white background
  • low-resolution pixels
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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
200709241429521915201840
Archive entry
200709241429521915201840.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709241429521915201840.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709241429521915201840.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016