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Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with white text "LUV ALEX" on a bright pink background, each featuring a small vertical line above the heart.

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Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with white text "LUV ALEX" on a bright pink background, each featuring a small vertical line above the heart.

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with white text "LUV ALEX" on a bright pink background, each featuring a small vertical line above the heart. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered hearts
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Four identical blue hearts arranged in 2x2 grid. Each heart has white pixelated text: top row reads "LUV", bottom row reads "ALEX". Small white vertical line centered above each heart. All four icons display exact same visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with white text "LUV ALEX" on a bright pink background, each featuring a small vertical line above the heart.

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

Named Entities

  • ALEX

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart luv alex
  • pink background pixelated text
  • hearts
  • white line above heart

Objects

  • line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid hearts

Visible Text

  • LUV
  • ALEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALEX

Wordwall

  • blue hearts
  • pink background
  • white text
  • "LUV ALEX"
  • pixelated font
  • vertical line above heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071031121038656070278
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
e8ebe577874f0484
SHA-256
e8ebe577874f04847d99f4d4f54edfa0030f2a52d7b83ab00052c3768f524de2
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090311

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Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with white text "LUV ALEX" on a bright pink background, each featuring a small vertical line above the heart.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:00 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 572

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • line (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered hearts
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Four identical blue hearts arranged in 2x2 grid. Each heart has white pixelated text: top row reads "LUV", bottom row reads "ALEX". Small white vertical line centered above each heart. All four icons display exact same visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

Four identical blue heart-shaped icons with white text "LUV ALEX" on a bright pink background, each featuring a small vertical line above the heart.

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

  • affectionate
  • playful

Named Entities

  • ALEX

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue heart luv alex
  • pink background pixelated text
  • hearts
  • white line above heart

Objects

  • hearts
  • text
  • line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid hearts

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hearts
  • text

Visible Text

  • LUV
  • ALEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALEX

Wordwall

  • blue hearts
  • pink background
  • white text
  • "LUV ALEX"
  • pixelated font
  • vertical line above 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
20071031121038656070278
Archive entry
20071031121038656070278.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071031121038656070278.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071031121038656070278.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016