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Yellow background with pink heart shapes and blue text reading "I <3 NE" in pixelated style.

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Yellow background with pink heart shapes and blue text reading "I <3 NE" in pixelated style.

Yellow background with pink heart shapes and blue text reading "I <3 NE" in pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered hearts
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

Yellow background with scattered pink heart shapes. Blue pixelated text "I <3 NE" appears in four locations. The text and hearts are static. The heart shapes are solid pink with no internal details. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The heart shapes vary slightly in size and position. The overall style is simple and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Yellow background with pink heart shapes and blue text reading "I <3 NE" in pixelated style.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background pink hearts blue text
  • I <3 NE pixelated
  • retro digital hearts
  • four text instances

Visible Text

  • I <3 NE

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink heart shapes
  • blue text
  • I <3 NE
  • pixelated style
  • scattered hearts
  • blocky font
  • solid pink hearts
  • retro digital
  • four text instances

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090306171807282411190
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b0014eead2d4ab3fd8dafc0b5e57fbda615f61a18fa8a64f8f109de0afe2060f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
b0014eead2d4ab3f
SHA-256
b0014eead2d4ab3fd8dafc0b5e57fbda615f61a18fa8a64f8f109de0afe2060f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102738

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with pink heart shapes and blue text reading "I <3 NE" in pixelated style.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 560

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • scattered hearts
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

Yellow background with scattered pink heart shapes. Blue pixelated text "I <3 NE" appears in four locations. The text and hearts are static. The heart shapes are solid pink with no internal details. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The heart shapes vary slightly in size and position. The overall style is simple and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Yellow background with pink heart shapes and blue text reading "I <3 NE" in pixelated style.

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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background pink hearts blue text
  • I <3 NE pixelated
  • retro digital hearts
  • four text instances

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • I <3 NE

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink heart shapes
  • blue text
  • I <3 NE
  • pixelated style
  • scattered hearts
  • blocky font
  • solid pink hearts
  • retro digital
  • four text instances
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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
20090306171807282411190
Archive entry
20090306171807282411190.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090306171807282411190.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090306171807282411190.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016