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Pixelated icon with brown heart outlines, gray text reading 'I LOVE ALEX', and a '<3' symbol on white background.

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Pixelated icon with brown heart outlines, gray text reading 'I LOVE ALEX', and a '<3' symbol on white background.

Pixelated icon with brown heart outlines, gray text reading 'I LOVE ALEX', and a '<3' symbol on white background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical alignment of text
  • symmetrical heart placement
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Brown pixelated heart outline forms left side of composition; another brown pixelated heart outline forms right side. Gray blocky text reads "I" above "LOVE", which sits above "ALEX". Below "ALEX" is gray pixelated "<3" symbol. Background is solid white with scattered light beige pixels near bottom-left. All elements are static, no animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with brown heart outlines, gray text reading 'I LOVE ALEX', and a '<3' symbol on white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Alex (person)

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803081936241356717379
  • 200803081936251435094713

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown heart love icon
  • I LOVE ALEX pixel art
  • <3 text symbol
  • gray blocky text white background

Objects

  • symbol

Subjects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • ALEX
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • brown heart outlines
  • gray text 'I LOVE ALEX'
  • <3 symbol
  • white background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803081936241356717379
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803081936251435094713
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
933 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c9f01d1e50782df120558ed01debce48becef53e5b3d430b64ca0701f8701f9e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
c9f01d1e50782df1
SHA-256
c9f01d1e50782df120558ed01debce48becef53e5b3d430b64ca0701f8701f9e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075439

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with brown heart outlines, gray text reading 'I LOVE ALEX', and a '<3' symbol on white background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:39 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,822 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,135, response 655

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personalized (mood, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • symbol (object, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • light beige

Composition

  • vertical alignment of text
  • symmetrical heart placement
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Brown pixelated heart outline forms left side of composition; another brown pixelated heart outline forms right side. Gray blocky text reads "I" above "LOVE", which sits above "ALEX". Below "ALEX" is gray pixelated "<3" symbol. Background is solid white with scattered light beige pixels near bottom-left. All elements are static, no animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with brown heart outlines, gray text reading 'I LOVE ALEX', and a '<3' symbol on white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Alex (person)

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803081936241356717379
  • 200803081936251435094713

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personalized

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown heart love icon
  • I LOVE ALEX pixel art
  • <3 text symbol
  • gray blocky text white background

Objects

  • hearts
  • text characters
  • symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • heart shapes
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • ALEX
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • brown heart outlines
  • gray text 'I LOVE ALEX'
  • <3 symbol
  • white background
  • pixelated rendering
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Full source records (2)

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
200803081936241356717379
Archive entry
200803081936241356717379.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803081936241356717379.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803081936241356717379.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200803081936251435094713
Archive entry
200803081936251435094713.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803081936251435094713.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803081936251435094713.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016