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Red background with white pixelated text reading 'I Was To Late </3' and a pink heart symbol above the text.

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Red background with white pixelated text reading 'I Was To Late </3' and a pink heart symbol above the text.

Red background with white pixelated text reading 'I Was To Late </3' and a pink heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • centered text
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: 'I' at top, 'Was' below, 'To' below 'Was', 'Late' below 'To', and '</3' at bottom. A pink heart symbol appears above the text. The text and heart are static. The image uses a retro pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated text reading 'I Was To Late </3' and a pink heart symbol above the text.

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

  • red background white text heart
  • I Was To Late </3 pixel art
  • retro pixel art apology
  • heart symbol white text red background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • Was
  • To
  • Late
  • </3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • I Was To Late </3
  • vertical text layout
  • retro pixel art style
  • limited color palette
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810211256171950111979
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
243 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
a181b2738606a55a
SHA-256
a181b2738606a55a656c6b616cc2c44fda1597ff4093c14d05cd86dee235c4f2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074110

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Red background with white pixelated text reading 'I Was To Late </3' and a pink heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,972 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 567

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • apologetic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • centered text
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: 'I' at top, 'Was' below, 'To' below 'Was', 'Late' below 'To', and '</3' at bottom. A pink heart symbol appears above the text. The text and heart are static. The image uses a retro pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated text reading 'I Was To Late </3' and a pink heart symbol above the text.

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

  • apologetic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text heart
  • I Was To Late </3 pixel art
  • retro pixel art apology
  • heart symbol white text red background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Visible Text

  • I
  • Was
  • To
  • Late
  • </3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • pink heart symbol
  • I Was To Late </3
  • vertical text layout
  • retro pixel art style
  • limited color palette
  • static image
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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
200810211256171950111979
Archive entry
200810211256171950111979.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810211256171950111979.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810211256171950111979.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016