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Pixelated green text on cyan background reads 'i love Alec<3 10/30/08' with two pink heart icons below.

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Pixelated green text on cyan background reads 'i love Alec<3 10/30/08' with two pink heart icons below.

Pixelated green text on cyan background reads 'i love Alec<3 10/30/08' with two pink heart icons below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered
  • hearts bottom-aligned

Dense Caption

Cyan background with green pixelated text: 'i' at top center, 'love' below it, 'Alec<3' below 'love', '10/30/08' at bottom. Two pink pixelated heart icons at bottom center and bottom right. Text is monospaced, blocky, and rendered in a retro digital style. The heart icons are identical in shape and color. The text 'Alec<3' includes a left-pointing angle bracket and a number three. The date '10/30/08' uses forward slashes. All text and icons are static.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on cyan background reads 'i love Alec<3 10/30/08' with two pink heart icons 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Alec 10/30/08
  • i love Alec 10/30/08
  • Alec<3 10/30/08
  • cyan green pink hearts
  • pixelated i love Alec
  • 10/30/08 hearts
  • Alec<3 hearts
  • i love Alec hearts

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • Alec<3
  • 10/30/08

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green pixelated text
  • i love Alec<3
  • 10/30/08
  • two pink hearts
  • retro digital style
  • monospaced text
  • left-pointing angle bracket
  • forward slashes
  • blocky rendering

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081216164155492600234
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
250 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
d6d434388f85be2a
SHA-256
d6d434388f85be2a8d76be491405f9b88368e6c90238663334d201210ef62ce7
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Pixelated green text on cyan background reads 'i love Alec<3 10/30/08' with two pink heart icons below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,761 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 787

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • text centered
  • hearts bottom-aligned

Dense Caption

Cyan background with green pixelated text: 'i' at top center, 'love' below it, 'Alec<3' below 'love', '10/30/08' at bottom. Two pink pixelated heart icons at bottom center and bottom right. Text is monospaced, blocky, and rendered in a retro digital style. The heart icons are identical in shape and color. The text 'Alec<3' includes a left-pointing angle bracket and a number three. The date '10/30/08' uses forward slashes. All text and icons are static.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on cyan background reads 'i love Alec<3 10/30/08' with two pink heart icons 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • nostalgic

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  • i love Alec 10/30/08
  • Alec<3 10/30/08
  • cyan green pink hearts
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  • 10/30/08 hearts
  • Alec<3 hearts
  • i love Alec hearts

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  • hearts

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  • i
  • love
  • Alec<3
  • 10/30/08

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  • i love Alec<3
  • 10/30/08
  • two pink hearts
  • retro digital style
  • monospaced text
  • left-pointing angle bracket
  • forward slashes
  • blocky rendering
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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
20081216164155492600234
Archive entry
20081216164155492600234.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081216164155492600234.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081216164155492600234.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016