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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background: 'I' above a heart, then 'LOVE COLIN LEE', with repeating '<3' at bottom.

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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background: 'I' above a heart, then 'LOVE COLIN LEE', with repeating '<3' at bottom.

Red pixelated text and symbols on black background: 'I' above a heart, then 'LOVE COLIN LEE', with repeating '<3' at bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical alignment of text
  • repeating bottom

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: top-left has vertical line 'I' next to red heart symbol; below is 'LOVE' in uppercase, followed by 'COLIN' and 'LEE' each on separate lines. Bottom row shows repeated sequence of '<3' symbols. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on black background: 'I' above a heart, then 'LOVE COLIN LEE', with repeating '<3' at bottom.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Colin Lee

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

Named Entities

  • Colin Lee

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Colin Lee
  • red pixelated heart text
  • <3 repeating symbols
  • LOVE COLIN LEE text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating bottom row

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • COLIN
  • LEE
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Colin Lee

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • I above heart symbol
  • LOVE COLIN LEE text
  • <3 repeating at bottom

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080507121346962981644
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
922 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 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
a69f7a15cd2d2732
SHA-256
a69f7a15cd2d27322e043a87e5b90ba04bc22e3e8c489f8bd8146bfe0352d989
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
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1284
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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Red pixelated text and symbols on black background: 'I' above a heart, then 'LOVE COLIN LEE', with repeating '<3' at bottom.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 566

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • vertical alignment of text
  • repeating bottom

Dense Caption

Black background. Red pixelated text: top-left has vertical line 'I' next to red heart symbol; below is 'LOVE' in uppercase, followed by 'COLIN' and 'LEE' each on separate lines. Bottom row shows repeated sequence of '<3' symbols. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on black background: 'I' above a heart, then 'LOVE COLIN LEE', with repeating '<3' at bottom.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Colin Lee

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

  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • Colin Lee

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I love Colin Lee
  • red pixelated heart text
  • <3 repeating symbols
  • LOVE COLIN LEE text

Objects

  • <3 symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating bottom row

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • COLIN
  • LEE
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Colin Lee

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • I above heart symbol
  • LOVE COLIN LEE text
  • <3 repeating at bottom
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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
20080507121346962981644
Archive entry
20080507121346962981644.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080507121346962981644.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080507121346962981644.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016