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Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets, one with a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest.

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Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets, one with a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest.

Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets, one with a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • white background

Dense Caption

Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets. The figure on the left has a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest. Both figures have arms raised with fists clenched. The background is white. The image has a pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets, one with a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures cyan <3 symbol
  • gray V-neck black jackets
  • fists clenched white background
  • <3 symbol celebrities

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • dark curly hair
  • gray V-neck shirts
  • black jackets
  • cyan '<3' symbol
  • fists clenched
  • white background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809101857591568473450
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
b15e662dea901bd2
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets, one with a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,353 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 533

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  • fists clenched (action, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • fists clenched
  • arms raised

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  • cyan
  • gray
  • black
  • white

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  • two figures side-by-side
  • white background

Dense Caption

Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets. The figure on the left has a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest. Both figures have arms raised with fists clenched. The background is white. The image has a pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Two identical figures with dark curly hair wear gray V-neck shirts and black jackets, one with a cyan '<3' symbol on the chest.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • confident

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  • two figures cyan <3 symbol
  • gray V-neck black jackets
  • fists clenched white background
  • <3 symbol celebrities

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • two figures

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

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  • dark curly hair
  • gray V-neck shirts
  • black jackets
  • cyan '<3' symbol
  • fists clenched
  • white background
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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
200809101857591568473450
Archive entry
200809101857591568473450.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#200809101857591568473450.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809101857591568473450.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016