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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on a blue background with pink text and heart symbols.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on a blue background with pink text and heart symbols.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on a blue background with pink text and heart symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text and symbols on right
  • solid blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on the left side against a blue background. On the right side, there are multiple pink '<3' symbols arranged vertically. Below the portrait, the word 'heart' appears in pink text, and to the right of that, the word 'you' appears in pink text. The entire composition is set on a solid blue background with no additional elements or motion.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on a blue background with pink text and heart symbols.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair gray shirt blue background
  • pink text heart you
  • <3 symbols blue background
  • pixelated portrait pink text

Visible Text

  • <3
  • i
  • heart
  • you

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • gray shirt
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • heart symbols
  • pixelated portrait
  • text 'heart'
  • text 'you'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070828152550532264547
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/ae5a2a75d40a86c1aac72ee8d6eca2e49100929ce8a1703527cf29ef62558035.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
ae5a2a75d40a86c1
SHA-256
ae5a2a75d40a86c1aac72ee8d6eca2e49100929ce8a1703527cf29ef62558035
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128867

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on a blue background with pink text and heart symbols.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,843 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 680

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • text heart (object, 0.80)
  • text you (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • text and symbols on right
  • solid blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated portrait of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on the left side against a blue background. On the right side, there are multiple pink '<3' symbols arranged vertically. Below the portrait, the word 'heart' appears in pink text, and to the right of that, the word 'you' appears in pink text. The entire composition is set on a solid blue background with no additional elements or motion.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair and a gray shirt on a blue background with pink text and heart symbols.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair gray shirt blue background
  • pink text heart you
  • <3 symbols blue background
  • pixelated portrait pink text

Objects

  • <3 symbols
  • text 'heart'
  • text 'you'

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • <3
  • i
  • heart
  • you

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • gray shirt
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • heart symbols
  • pixelated portrait
  • text 'heart'
  • text 'you'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:28 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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070828152550532264547
Archive entry
20070828152550532264547.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070828152550532264547.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070828152550532264547.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016