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Pixelated orange background with white text "I LUV CARSON" and a purple heart symbol above the text.

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Pixelated orange background with white text "I LUV CARSON" and a purple heart symbol above the text.

Pixelated orange background with white text "I LUV CARSON" and a purple heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • vertical text alignment
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid orange background. Centered at the top is a purple pixelated heart symbol. Below the heart, white pixelated text reads "I" on the first line, "LUV" on the second line, and "CARSON" on the third line. The text is arranged in a vertical stack. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated orange background with white text "I LUV CARSON" and a purple 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LUV CARSON
  • purple heart orange background
  • pixelated text heart
  • orange background white text
  • heart symbol I LUV CARSON
  • white text orange background
  • I LUV CARSON purple heart
  • CARSON LUV I

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • LUV
  • CARSON

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • purple heart symbol
  • white pixelated text
  • I LUV CARSON
  • vertical text stack
  • solid color background
  • pixelated rendering
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070813204221385231247
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
228 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac842acdff7b8a6cca7b65c0343732695a8024148a889f98ddc5fedd48bed80f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
ac842acdff7b8a6c
SHA-256
ac842acdff7b8a6cca7b65c0343732695a8024148a889f98ddc5fedd48bed80f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078454

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated orange background with white text "I LUV CARSON" and a purple heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,295 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 669

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • centered heart
  • vertical text alignment
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid orange background. Centered at the top is a purple pixelated heart symbol. Below the heart, white pixelated text reads "I" on the first line, "LUV" on the second line, and "CARSON" on the third line. The text is arranged in a vertical stack. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated orange background with white text "I LUV CARSON" and a purple 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I LUV CARSON
  • purple heart orange background
  • pixelated text heart
  • orange background white text
  • heart symbol I LUV CARSON
  • white text orange background
  • I LUV CARSON purple heart
  • CARSON LUV I

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • I
  • LUV
  • CARSON

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • purple heart symbol
  • white pixelated text
  • I LUV CARSON
  • vertical text stack
  • solid color background
  • pixelated rendering
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:33 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
20070813204221385231247
Archive entry
20070813204221385231247.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#20070813204221385231247.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070813204221385231247.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016