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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a black shirt featuring pink '<3' text against a light gradient background.

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a black shirt featuring pink '<3' text against a light gradient background.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • medium close-up
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated digital portrait. The subject has short brown hair and wears a black V-neck shirt. On the chest area of the shirt, there is bright pink text displaying '<3', which appears to be a stylized heart symbol. The background consists of a light-colored gradient with subtle variations in tone. The image exhibits low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a black shirt featuring pink '<3' text against a light gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801081730371764759237
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair black shirt pink <3
  • <3 symbol pixelated portrait
  • pixel art brown hair <3 text
  • black V-neck shirt pink heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • <3 text
  • black shirt
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • V-neck collar
  • light gradient background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801081730371764759237
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b64f5c0ef0612edcd2a816248028737119a69329dc47aa24ee278dc7bcb520b6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
b64f5c0ef0612edc
SHA-256
b64f5c0ef0612edcd2a816248028737119a69329dc47aa24ee278dc7bcb520b6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156128

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a black shirt featuring pink '<3' text against a light gradient background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,911 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 686

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital portrait (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • pink
  • light gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • medium close-up
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated digital portrait. The subject has short brown hair and wears a black V-neck shirt. On the chest area of the shirt, there is bright pink text displaying '<3', which appears to be a stylized heart symbol. The background consists of a light-colored gradient with subtle variations in tone. The image exhibits low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with brown hair wearing a black shirt featuring pink '<3' text against a light gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801081730371764759237
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair black shirt pink <3
  • <3 symbol pixelated portrait
  • pixel art brown hair <3 text
  • black V-neck shirt pink heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • digital portrait

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • <3 text
  • black shirt
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • V-neck collar
  • light gradient 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
200801081730371764759237
Archive entry
200801081730371764759237.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801081730371764759237.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801081730371764759237.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016