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Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with a large head and small body, positioned above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with a large head and small body, positioned above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with a large head and small body, positioned above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character above symbol
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image consists of two distinct sections: an upper grayscale pixelated section and a lower pink section. The upper section contains a cartoon character with a large head, small body, and visible facial features including eyes and a mouth, rendered in shades of gray. The lower section displays a pink '<3' symbol, where the '<' is a left-pointing arrow and the '3' is a stylized number, both composed of pixelated dots. The background is solid white. The character's expression appears neutral. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with a large head and small body, positioned above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070813202048198261276

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale cartoon character pink <3
  • pixelated <3 symbol
  • neutral expression cartoon character
  • white background <3 symbol

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • grayscale cartoon character
  • large head
  • small body
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • pixelated dots
  • white background
  • neutral expression
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070813202048198261276
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1013 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8e7a7dddb3bf0a40c0e8e1b46205811d339e321987e281542632b28543390bb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
a8e7a7dddb3bf0a4
SHA-256
a8e7a7dddb3bf0a40c0e8e1b46205811d339e321987e281542632b28543390bb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084870

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with a large head and small body, positioned above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,345 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 727

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • character above symbol
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image consists of two distinct sections: an upper grayscale pixelated section and a lower pink section. The upper section contains a cartoon character with a large head, small body, and visible facial features including eyes and a mouth, rendered in shades of gray. The lower section displays a pink '<3' symbol, where the '<' is a left-pointing arrow and the '3' is a stylized number, both composed of pixelated dots. The background is solid white. The character's expression appears neutral. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with a large head and small body, positioned above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070813202048198261276

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale cartoon character pink <3
  • pixelated <3 symbol
  • neutral expression cartoon character
  • white background <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • grayscale cartoon character
  • large head
  • small body
  • pink '<3' symbol
  • pixelated dots
  • white background
  • neutral expression
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:32 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070813202048198261276
Archive entry
20070813202048198261276.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070813202048198261276.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070813202048198261276.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016