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Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a pattern

Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mi…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three of <3GEM<3 text
  • one heart per segment
  • gray rectangle in lower-right corner

Dense Caption

<3GEM<3 appears three times per row across the top, middle, and bottom rows. Each <3GEM<3 is positioned above a single pixelated heart symbol. The hearts are consistently yellow and appear as hollow outlines. The background color is solid pink. In the lower-right corner of the image, there is a gray rectangular area that partially overlaps with the last row's rightmost heart. This gray rectangle does not contain any visible text or symbols.

Description

  • Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a pattern

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090724191901315941784

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3GEM<3 hearts pink background
  • <3GEM<3 yellow heart
  • pink gray rectangle <3GEM<3
  • pixelated <3GEM<3 hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: one heart per row segment
  • quarantined composition: three rows of <3GEM<3 text
  • quarantined retrieval: <3GEM<3 yellow heart grid

Visible Text

  • <3GEM<3

Wordwall

  • <3GEM<3
  • yellow hearts
  • pink background
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090724191901315941784
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
654 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b03714bd5f5ec331efdc16fc09d51d3e044f3e2832dcb303f7526ab146d19211.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
b03714bd5f5ec331
SHA-256
b03714bd5f5ec331efdc16fc09d51d3e044f3e2832dcb303f7526ab146d19211
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
0.063658

OpenAI category scores

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Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,640 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 640

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 3gem 3 (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • three of <3GEM<3 text
  • one heart per segment
  • gray rectangle in lower-right corner

Dense Caption

<3GEM<3 appears three times per row across the top, middle, and bottom rows. Each <3GEM<3 is positioned above a single pixelated heart symbol. The hearts are consistently yellow and appear as hollow outlines. The background color is solid pink. In the lower-right corner of the image, there is a gray rectangular area that partially overlaps with the last row's rightmost heart. This gray rectangle does not contain any visible text or symbols.

Description

  • Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a pattern

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090724191901315941784

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3GEM<3 hearts pink background
  • <3GEM<3 yellow heart
  • pink gray rectangle <3GEM<3
  • pixelated <3GEM<3 hearts

Objects

  • <3GEM<3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pink background with yellow text and heart symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: one heart per row segment
  • quarantined composition: three rows of <3GEM<3 text
  • quarantined retrieval: <3GEM<3 yellow heart grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • hearts

Visible Text

  • <3GEM<3

Wordwall

  • <3GEM<3
  • yellow hearts
  • pink background
  • gray rectangle
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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
20090724191901315941784
Archive entry
20090724191901315941784.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090724191901315941784.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090724191901315941784.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016