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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with flowing hair and a blurred background, overlaid with a black rectangular bar containing pink text.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with flowing hair and a blurred background, overlaid with a black rectangular bar containing pink text.

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with flowing hair and a blurred background, overlaid with a black rectangular bar containing pink text. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • bottom text bar

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated static icon. The background consists of abstract grayscale tones with dark and light patches. A central figure with indistinct features and flowing hair is visible. At the bottom, a solid black rectangular bar spans the width of the icon. Inside the bar, the text 'love<3' is rendered in bright pink pixelated letters, with the '<3' symbol representing a heart. The overall style is retro digital with heavy pixelation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with flowing hair and a blurred background, overlaid with a black rectangular bar containing pink 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 2008090116394898684349

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love<3 pixelated icon
  • pink text heart symbol
  • grayscale figure icon
  • retro digital buddy icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • love<3

Wordwall

  • grayscale background
  • flowing hair
  • black bar
  • pink text
  • love<3
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • heart symbol
  • central figure
  • abstract tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008090116394898684349
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af8ff96f5d66f1f79316221db5be4cf384ce00f4ac1702ca59b3cb5c65920230.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
af8ff96f5d66f1f7
SHA-256
af8ff96f5d66f1f79316221db5be4cf384ce00f4ac1702ca59b3cb5c65920230
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 22:36 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.242150

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with flowing hair and a blurred background, overlaid with a black rectangular bar containing pink text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,797 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 753

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • central figure
  • bottom text bar

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution pixelated static icon. The background consists of abstract grayscale tones with dark and light patches. A central figure with indistinct features and flowing hair is visible. At the bottom, a solid black rectangular bar spans the width of the icon. Inside the bar, the text 'love<3' is rendered in bright pink pixelated letters, with the '<3' symbol representing a heart. The overall style is retro digital with heavy pixelation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image of a figure with flowing hair and a blurred background, overlaid with a black rectangular bar containing pink 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 2008090116394898684349

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love<3 pixelated icon
  • pink text heart symbol
  • grayscale figure icon
  • retro digital buddy icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • love<3

Wordwall

  • grayscale background
  • flowing hair
  • black bar
  • pink text
  • love<3
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  • central figure
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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
2008090116394898684349
Archive entry
2008090116394898684349.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#2008090116394898684349.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008090116394898684349.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016