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<3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration, surrounded by four text fragments: 'less', 'less', 'than', 'three' on white background.

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<3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration, surrounded by four text fragments: 'less', 'less', 'than', 'three' on white background.

<3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration, surrounded by four text fragments: 'less', 'less', 'than', 'three' on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left symbol
  • bottom-right three
  • bottom-left than
  • middle-left less
  • middle-right less

Dense Caption

<3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration; four text fragments: 'less' (top-right), 'less' (middle-left), 'less' (middle-right), 'than' (bottom-left), 'three' (bottom-right); white background; pixelated rendering; no visible motion; text fragments arranged in a 2x2 grid with the symbol in the top-left; 'less' appears twice; 'than' and 'three' are partial text fragments; blue and orange chromatic aberration on the symbol's edges.

Description

  • <3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration, surrounded by four text fragments: 'less', 'less', 'than', 'three' on white 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbol less than three
  • less less than three
  • chromatic aberration <3
  • pixelated less than three
  • blue orange <3
  • text fragments less than three
  • less than three
  • white background <3 less than three

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid less than three

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • less
  • than
  • three

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • blue chromatic aberration
  • orange chromatic aberration
  • white background
  • text fragments
  • less
  • than
  • three
  • pixelated
  • top-left symbol
  • bottom-right three
  • bottom-left than
  • middle-left less
  • middle-right less

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708311341401065693336
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ce/ce679bc8beb90cd53d1d2fe078644864ce0384c675ef65c106fb6bbe4fdd6de4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
ce679bc8beb90cd5
SHA-256
ce679bc8beb90cd53d1d2fe078644864ce0384c675ef65c106fb6bbe4fdd6de4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095123

OpenAI category scores

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

<3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration, surrounded by four text fragments: 'less', 'less', 'than', 'three' on white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,469 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 688

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • chromatic aberration (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text fragments (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • orange

Composition

  • top-left symbol
  • bottom-right three
  • bottom-left than
  • middle-left less
  • middle-right less

Dense Caption

<3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration; four text fragments: 'less' (top-right), 'less' (middle-left), 'less' (middle-right), 'than' (bottom-left), 'three' (bottom-right); white background; pixelated rendering; no visible motion; text fragments arranged in a 2x2 grid with the symbol in the top-left; 'less' appears twice; 'than' and 'three' are partial text fragments; blue and orange chromatic aberration on the symbol's edges.

Description

  • <3 symbol with blue and orange chromatic aberration, surrounded by four text fragments: 'less', 'less', 'than', 'three' on white 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbol less than three
  • less less than three
  • chromatic aberration <3
  • pixelated less than three
  • blue orange <3
  • text fragments less than three
  • less than three
  • white background <3 less than three

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid less than three

Style

  • pixelated
  • chromatic aberration

Subjects

  • <3 symbol
  • text fragments

Visible Text

  • less
  • than
  • three

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • blue chromatic aberration
  • orange chromatic aberration
  • white background
  • text fragments
  • less
  • than
  • three
  • pixelated
  • top-left symbol
  • bottom-right three
  • bottom-left than
  • middle-left less
  • middle-right less
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:47 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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708311341401065693336
Archive entry
200708311341401065693336.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708311341401065693336.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708311341401065693336.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016