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A static image with a bright pink background featuring vertical white text on both sides and a red pixelated heart symbol in the center.

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A static image with a bright pink background featuring vertical white text on both sides and a red pixelated heart symbol in the center.

A static image with a bright pink background featuring vertical white text on both sides and a red pixelated heart symbol in the center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • vertical text alignment
  • centered heart symbol

Dense Caption

The image has a solid bright pink background. On the left side, there is vertically aligned white pixelated text reading 'KIAH' followed by '<3'. The same text appears mirrored on the right side. In the horizontal center above the vertical text alignment, there is a red pixelated heart symbol composed of blocky pixels with an open top and bottom. All elements are static.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring vertical white text on both sides and a red pixelated heart symbol in the center.

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

  • pink background heart text
  • KIAH mirrored <3
  • red pixelated heart pink
  • vertical white text KIAH

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • K
  • I
  • A
  • H
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • KIAH

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • vertical white text
  • 'KIAH' text
  • <3 symbol
  • red pixelated heart
  • mirrored text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080601113348427760731
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
214 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/dbf2b5c73c1125b6813293d0cf697458c5b509297a54ebc29f4411fac45ce473.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
dbf2b5c73c1125b6
SHA-256
dbf2b5c73c1125b6813293d0cf697458c5b509297a54ebc29f4411fac45ce473
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067511

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a bright pink background featuring vertical white text on both sides and a red pixelated heart symbol in the center.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 21:17 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,167 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 600

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • vertical text alignment
  • centered heart symbol

Dense Caption

The image has a solid bright pink background. On the left side, there is vertically aligned white pixelated text reading 'KIAH' followed by '<3'. The same text appears mirrored on the right side. In the horizontal center above the vertical text alignment, there is a red pixelated heart symbol composed of blocky pixels with an open top and bottom. All elements are static.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring vertical white text on both sides and a red pixelated heart symbol in the center.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background heart text
  • KIAH mirrored <3
  • red pixelated heart pink
  • vertical white text KIAH

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • static

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • K
  • I
  • A
  • H
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • KIAH

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • vertical white text
  • 'KIAH' text
  • <3 symbol
  • red pixelated heart
  • mirrored text layout
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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
20080601113348427760731
Archive entry
20080601113348427760731.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080601113348427760731.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080601113348427760731.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016