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A static pixel art image featuring a pink heart-shaped icon above two identical black text strings on a light background.

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A static pixel art image featuring a pink heart-shaped icon above two identical black text strings on a light background.

A static pixel art image featuring a pink heart-shaped icon above two identical black text strings on a light background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart, two horizontal text strings below

Dense Caption

The image displays a single static composition with a solid off-white background. At the top center, there is a small 10x12 pixel pink heart shape made of blocky pixels; it has an open left side and a closed right side forming a partial outline. Below this icon are two identical black text strings positioned horizontally apart from each other: '<3kev<3'. Each string consists of six characters rendered in a bold, pixelated font with rounded edges. The first character is a less-than sign '<', followed by the lowercase letters 'k', 'e', 'v', then another less-than sign '<', and finally the number '3'. All text elements are horizontally centered relative to their respective positions.

Description

  • A static pixel art image featuring a pink heart-shaped icon above two identical black text strings on a light 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart icon <3kev<3
  • <3kev<3 pixel art
  • heart icon text string
  • off-white background pink black

Objects

  • heart icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 10x12 pixel heart

Subjects

  • heart icon

Visible Text

  • <3kev<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • kev

Wordwall

  • pink heart icon
  • <3kev<3 text
  • off-white background
  • pixelated font
  • two identical text strings
  • pixel heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811231242551816197100
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
211 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d04e119d5a857a988b87a0e6f9e2b5ba527b96a60284d4bbc8b4d90da6f3a57f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
d04e119d5a857a98
SHA-256
d04e119d5a857a988b87a0e6f9e2b5ba527b96a60284d4bbc8b4d90da6f3a57f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090302

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image featuring a pink heart-shaped icon above two identical black text strings on a light background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,893 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 649

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • off white (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart icon (subject, 0.80)
  • text string (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • off-white

Composition

  • top-center heart, two horizontal text strings below

Dense Caption

The image displays a single static composition with a solid off-white background. At the top center, there is a small 10x12 pixel pink heart shape made of blocky pixels; it has an open left side and a closed right side forming a partial outline. Below this icon are two identical black text strings positioned horizontally apart from each other: '<3kev<3'. Each string consists of six characters rendered in a bold, pixelated font with rounded edges. The first character is a less-than sign '<', followed by the lowercase letters 'k', 'e', 'v', then another less-than sign '<', and finally the number '3'. All text elements are horizontally centered relative to their respective positions.

Description

  • A static pixel art image featuring a pink heart-shaped icon above two identical black text strings on a light 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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink heart icon <3kev<3
  • <3kev<3 pixel art
  • heart icon text string
  • off-white background pink black

Objects

  • heart icon
  • text string

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 10x12 pixel heart

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart icon
  • text string

Visible Text

  • <3kev<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • kev

Wordwall

  • pink heart icon
  • <3kev<3 text
  • off-white background
  • pixelated font
  • two identical text strings
  • pixel heart
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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
200811231242551816197100
Archive entry
200811231242551816197100.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811231242551816197100.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811231242551816197100.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016