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Pixelated blue text on bright pink background reads 'i <3 u', 'hope u <3 me!', and 'your cool doug!' in a static layout.

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Pixelated blue text on bright pink background reads 'i <3 u', 'hope u <3 me!', and 'your cool doug!' in a static layout.

Pixelated blue text on bright pink background reads 'i <3 u', 'hope u <3 me!', and 'your cool doug!' in a static layout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of 'i <3 u' and 'hope u <3' on left/right

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background with pixelated blue text. Top row: 'i <3 u' (left) and 'i <3 u' (right). Middle row: 'hope u <3' (left), 'hope u <3' (right). Bottom rows: 'me!' (centered below middle), 'your cool doug!' (bottom center). Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. No animation or additional visual elements present.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on bright pink background reads 'i <3 u', 'hope u <3 me!', and 'your cool doug!' in a static layout.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20071118111324380401595
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20071118111324380401595
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071118111324380401595

Named Entities

  • doug

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue text
  • <3 symbol affectionate message
  • your cool doug! text
  • i <3 u hope u <3 me!
  • pixelated low-resolution font
  • symmetrical text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with identical content across all observations

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • i <3 u
  • hope u <3 me!
  • your cool doug!

Visually Supported Entities

  • doug

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue text
  • <3 symbol
  • i <3 u
  • hope u <3 me!
  • your cool doug!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071118111324380401595
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
994 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a0751be269365f399d005d967e225ae5538d8285cb7226dd32982ff57798a325.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
a0751be269365f39
SHA-256
a0751be269365f399d005d967e225ae5538d8285cb7226dd32982ff57798a325
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
0.138770

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue text on bright pink background reads 'i <3 u', 'hope u <3 me!', and 'your cool doug!' in a static layout.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,432 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 841

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement of 'i <3 u' and 'hope u <3' on left/right

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background with pixelated blue text. Top row: 'i <3 u' (left) and 'i <3 u' (right). Middle row: 'hope u <3' (left), 'hope u <3' (right). Bottom rows: 'me!' (centered below middle), 'your cool doug!' (bottom center). Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. No animation or additional visual elements present.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on bright pink background reads 'i <3 u', 'hope u <3 me!', and 'your cool doug!' in a static layout.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20071118111324380401595
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20071118111324380401595
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071118111324380401595

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • doug

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue text
  • <3 symbol affectionate message
  • your cool doug! text
  • i <3 u hope u <3 me!
  • pixelated low-resolution font
  • symmetrical text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with identical content across all observations

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • i <3 u
  • hope u <3 me!
  • your cool doug!

Visually Supported Entities

  • doug

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue text
  • <3 symbol
  • i <3 u
  • hope u <3 me!
  • your cool doug!
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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
20071118111324380401595
Archive entry
20071118111324380401595.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#20071118111324380401595.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071118111324380401595.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016