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Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a

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Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a

Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

Green heart shape with solid fill; black pixelated text "Alex<3" centered within each heart. Background is uniform bright orange. Four hearts positioned in two rows and two columns. All four icons display identical visual content without variation across observations. Text uses lowercase letters except for the capital 'A' in "Alex", followed by '<3'.

Description

  • Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a

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

Named Entities

  • Alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green heart Alex<3 orange
  • Alex<3 hearts
  • pixelated Alex<3 green hearts
  • text Alex<3 four hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Alex<3 hearts 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Alex<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • green heart shape
  • black text Alex<3
  • orange background

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712251859131030905228
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
b8a38d49df2ec9d3
SHA-256
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July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,346 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 551

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • green
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

Green heart shape with solid fill; black pixelated text "Alex<3" centered within each heart. Background is uniform bright orange. Four hearts positioned in two rows and two columns. All four icons display identical visual content without variation across observations. Text uses lowercase letters except for the capital 'A' in "Alex", followed by '<3'.

Description

  • Four identical green heart-shaped icons with black text "Alex<3" on an orange background, arranged in a

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Alex

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green heart Alex<3 orange
  • Alex<3 hearts
  • pixelated Alex<3 green hearts
  • text Alex<3 four hearts

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Alex<3 hearts 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • simple

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • Alex<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • green heart shape
  • black text Alex<3
  • orange 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
200712251859131030905228
Archive entry
200712251859131030905228.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712251859131030905228.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712251859131030905228.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016