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Pixelated cyan and white icon with heart symbol, two 'i' characters, '<3' symbols, and 'tyler' text on black background.

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Pixelated cyan and white icon with heart symbol, two 'i' characters, '<3' symbols, and 'tyler' text on black background.

Pixelated cyan and white icon with heart symbol, two 'i' characters, '<3' symbols, and 'tyler' text on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top : two 'i' characters flanking heart
  • middle : two '<3' symbols
  • bottom : two 'tyler' text strings
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan and white pixelated elements. Top row: two cyan 'i' characters flanking a white heart symbol. Middle row: two cyan '<3' symbols. Bottom row: two cyan 'tyler' text strings. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. The heart symbol is formed by white pixels in a blocky, retro style. The '<3' symbols use cyan pixels with a slightly blurred appearance. The 'tyler' text is rendered in a pixelated cyan font with consistent letter spacing. The icon has no visible motion or frame transitions.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and white icon with heart symbol, two 'i' characters, '<3' symbols, and 'tyler' text on black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart icon
  • i i tyler
  • i i <3
  • tyler <3
  • cyan pixelated heart
  • i heart i
  • tyler <3 <3
  • i <3 tyler

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: bottom row: two 'tyler' text strings
  • quarantined composition: middle row: two '<3' symbols
  • quarantined composition: top row: two 'i' characters flanking heart

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • tyler

Wordwall

  • cyan and white pixelated elements
  • black background
  • two 'i' characters
  • white heart symbol
  • '<3' symbols
  • 'tyler' text
  • static icon
  • retro blocky style
  • consistent letter spacing
  • no visible motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708101826171042090127
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
716 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c6913889acab11ec4b3dc3c873a415241e2a7069a4005e8b1580eb2b5702dd88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
c6913889acab11ec
SHA-256
c6913889acab11ec4b3dc3c873a415241e2a7069a4005e8b1580eb2b5702dd88
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086026

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cyan and white icon with heart symbol, two 'i' characters, '<3' symbols, and 'tyler' text on black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,458 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 763

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • i characters (subject, 0.80)
  • tyler text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • top : two 'i' characters flanking heart
  • middle : two '<3' symbols
  • bottom : two 'tyler' text strings
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan and white pixelated elements. Top row: two cyan 'i' characters flanking a white heart symbol. Middle row: two cyan '<3' symbols. Bottom row: two cyan 'tyler' text strings. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. The heart symbol is formed by white pixels in a blocky, retro style. The '<3' symbols use cyan pixels with a slightly blurred appearance. The 'tyler' text is rendered in a pixelated cyan font with consistent letter spacing. The icon has no visible motion or frame transitions.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and white icon with heart symbol, two 'i' characters, '<3' symbols, and 'tyler' text on black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan heart icon
  • i i tyler
  • i i <3
  • tyler <3
  • cyan pixelated heart
  • i heart i
  • tyler <3 <3
  • i <3 tyler

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: bottom row: two 'tyler' text strings
  • quarantined composition: middle row: two '<3' symbols
  • quarantined composition: top row: two 'i' characters flanking heart

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • blocky

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • 'i' characters
  • '<3' symbols
  • 'tyler' text

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • tyler

Wordwall

  • cyan and white pixelated elements
  • black background
  • two 'i' characters
  • white heart symbol
  • '<3' symbols
  • 'tyler' text
  • static icon
  • retro blocky style
  • consistent letter spacing
  • no visible motion
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:11 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708101826171042090127
Archive entry
200708101826171042090127.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708101826171042090127.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708101826171042090127.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016