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A grayscale buddy icon featuring a stylized figure with a heart symbol and the letters 'ILY' in a pixelated outline style.

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A grayscale buddy icon featuring a stylized figure with a heart symbol and the letters 'ILY' in a pixelated outline style.

A grayscale buddy icon featuring a stylized figure with a heart symbol and the letters 'ILY' in a pixelated outline style. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure with outstretched arms
  • heart shape on left arm
  • ILY text below heart
  • small black rectangle in bottom right

Dense Caption

The icon is a grayscale image with a white background. It contains a stylized figure with a circular head and outstretched arms. The figure's left arm forms a heart shape. Below the heart, the letters 'I', 'L', and 'Y' are arranged vertically and horizontally to spell 'ILY'. The figure's right arm extends to the right, forming a curved shape. The bottom right corner has a small black rectangular shape. The image is pixelated with visible dithering patterns.

Description

  • A grayscale buddy icon featuring a stylized figure with a heart symbol and the letters 'ILY' in a pixelated outline style.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale ILY heart figure
  • ILY text heart symbol
  • stylized figure heart ILY
  • grayscale pixelated ILY

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ILY

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • white background
  • stylized figure
  • circular head
  • heart shape
  • ILY text
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • small black rectangle
  • outstretched arms

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090220094851782314429
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d53aa86733f6e43a1e1ae5b5bddd633c5751a5b9af7686683fc7adc3630fea92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
d53aa86733f6e43a
SHA-256
d53aa86733f6e43a1e1ae5b5bddd633c5751a5b9af7686683fc7adc3630fea92
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074606

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale buddy icon featuring a stylized figure with a heart symbol and the letters 'ILY' in a pixelated outline style.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,361 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 689

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ily text (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized outline (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • figure with outstretched arms
  • heart shape on left arm
  • ILY text below heart
  • small black rectangle in bottom right

Dense Caption

The icon is a grayscale image with a white background. It contains a stylized figure with a circular head and outstretched arms. The figure's left arm forms a heart shape. Below the heart, the letters 'I', 'L', and 'Y' are arranged vertically and horizontally to spell 'ILY'. The figure's right arm extends to the right, forming a curved shape. The bottom right corner has a small black rectangular shape. The image is pixelated with visible dithering patterns.

Description

  • A grayscale buddy icon featuring a stylized figure with a heart symbol and the letters 'ILY' in a pixelated outline style.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale ILY heart figure
  • ILY text heart symbol
  • stylized figure heart ILY
  • grayscale pixelated ILY

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • ILY text

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • stylized outline

Subjects

  • stylized figure
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ILY

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • white background
  • stylized figure
  • circular head
  • heart shape
  • ILY text
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • small black rectangle
  • outstretched arms
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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
20090220094851782314429
Archive entry
20090220094851782314429.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090220094851782314429.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090220094851782314429.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016