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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair on left, blue background with 'LOVE' text and heart symbols below.

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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair on left, blue background with 'LOVE' text and heart symbols below.

Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair on left, blue background with 'LOVE' text and heart symbols below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • vertical text
  • horizontal text

Dense Caption

Left side shows partial view of person with light skin tone, long straight brown hair, dark eyes looking downward, wearing white top. Right side has vertical column of blue pixelated hearts above 'U', horizontal row of blue 'LOVE' text at bottom flanked by three blue heart symbols on each side. Background is solid bright cyan. All text and symbols are rendered in blocky 8-bit style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair on left, blue background with 'LOVE' text and heart symbols below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long brown hair cyan background
  • LOVE hearts U text
  • pixelated blue hearts
  • white top person

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal text row
  • quarantined composition: vertical text column

Visible Text

  • LOVE
  • U

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • person
  • long brown hair
  • white top
  • cyan background
  • blue hearts
  • LOVE text
  • U symbol
  • pixelated

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071029200907141223617
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c7ae63525b1053eb5cf9b6f9d44cf1d99ffdc1a8b25ea1b4069f001b6e7a691c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
c7ae63525b1053eb
SHA-256
c7ae63525b1053eb5cf9b6f9d44cf1d99ffdc1a8b25ea1b4069f001b6e7a691c
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 14:25 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010392

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July 23, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
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Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair on left, blue background with 'LOVE' text and heart symbols below.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:48 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,159 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 574

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • left-right split
  • vertical text
  • horizontal text

Dense Caption

Left side shows partial view of person with light skin tone, long straight brown hair, dark eyes looking downward, wearing white top. Right side has vertical column of blue pixelated hearts above 'U', horizontal row of blue 'LOVE' text at bottom flanked by three blue heart symbols on each side. Background is solid bright cyan. All text and symbols are rendered in blocky 8-bit style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with long brown hair on left, blue background with 'LOVE' text and heart symbols below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long brown hair cyan background
  • LOVE hearts U text
  • pixelated blue hearts
  • white top person

Objects

  • hearts
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal text row
  • quarantined composition: vertical text column

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • LOVE
  • U

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • person
  • long brown hair
  • white top
  • cyan background
  • blue hearts
  • LOVE text
  • U symbol
  • pixelated
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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
20071029200907141223617
Archive entry
20071029200907141223617.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071029200907141223617.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071029200907141223617.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016