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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair against pink and dark background, next to cyan text on black.

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair against pink and dark background, next to cyan text on black.

Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair against pink and dark background, next to cyan text on black. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with light brown tousled hair, blue eyes, neutral expression, wearing dark clothing. Right side has cyan pixelated text: "I believe in a thing called love." followed by heart symbol <3 on solid black background. Left background is pinkish-red gradient fading to dark gray. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair against pink and dark background, next to cyan text on black.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair blue eyes
  • cyan text black background
  • heart symbol <3
  • pixel art figure
  • split composition

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible animation changes detected

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 believe in a thing called love. <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark clothing
  • cyan text
  • <3 symbol
  • black background
  • pinkish-red gradient

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711051600061080159250
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3e105c662aea73412b0c183e17077b4ef495713896ce718189d4ea311c19803.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
a3e105c662aea734
SHA-256
a3e105c662aea73412b0c183e17077b4ef495713896ce718189d4ea311c19803
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107253

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair against pink and dark background, next to cyan text on black.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,723 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 666

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • blue
  • dark gray
  • cyan
  • black
  • pinkish-red

Composition

  • split composition
  • left figure
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure with light brown tousled hair, blue eyes, neutral expression, wearing dark clothing. Right side has cyan pixelated text: "I believe in a thing called love." followed by heart symbol <3 on solid black background. Left background is pinkish-red gradient fading to dark gray. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with light brown hair against pink and dark background, next to cyan text on black.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair blue eyes
  • cyan text black background
  • heart symbol <3
  • pixel art figure
  • split composition

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible animation changes detected

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

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I believe in a thing called love. <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • blue eyes
  • neutral expression
  • dark clothing
  • cyan text
  • <3 symbol
  • black background
  • pinkish-red gradient
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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
200711051600061080159250
Archive entry
200711051600061080159250.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711051600061080159250.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711051600061080159250.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016