A black-and-white image of a person's face with pink text elements changing across frames, showing 'm', 'e', 'l', '<3', and 'mel<3'.

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A black-and-white image of a person's face with pink text elements changing across frames, showing 'm', 'e', 'l', '<3', and 'mel<3'.

A black-and-white image of a person's face with pink text elements changing across frames, showing 'm', 'e', 'l', '<3', and 'mel<3'. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Animation

  • text changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text elements change sequentially from 'm' to 'e' to 'l', then '<3', and finally 'mel<3' across frames.

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text positioned at top-left, right, and center

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated close-up of a person's face; visible features include eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. Pink text overlays change sequentially: first frame shows 'm' in top-left corner, second frame replaces it with 'e' at same position, third frame changes to 'l' on the right side. Fourth frame displays '<3' on left side of face, fifth frame combines 'mel<3' across center and right sides. Text is bold sans-serif font with white outline. Background is solid black. Animation consists of text replacement without movement or other visual changes.

Description

  • A black-and-white image of a person's face with pink text elements changing across frames, showing 'm', 'e', 'l', '<3', and 'mel<3'.

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

  • person's face pink text mel
  • black-and-white pixelated <3
  • text replacement animation

Visible Text

  • m
  • e
  • l
  • <3
  • mel<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person's face

Wordwall

  • black-and-white pixelated close-up
  • pink text overlays
  • 'm' in top-left
  • 'e' replaces 'm'
  • 'l' on right side
  • <3 symbol
  • mel<3 combination
  • bold sans-serif font
  • white outline

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080706154434279271821
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e9e7671bca193ed18cd09268d8cef582de182a6ef3eff90d7007df25b01cab6a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
e9e7671bca193ed1
SHA-256
e9e7671bca193ed18cd09268d8cef582de182a6ef3eff90d7007df25b01cab6a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 10:59 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019341

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.019341falseviolence0.000482falseself-harm0.000465falseharassment0.000030falseviolence/graphic0.000021falsesexual/minors0.000013falseself-harm/intent0.000006falsehate0.000005falseillicit0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 11:59 UTC
Run
1179
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023009

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.023009falsesexual0.019751falseself-harm0.004661falseviolence/graphic0.002400falseself-harm/intent0.000228falseself-harm/instructions0.000214falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.807955

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/unsafe0.807955onnx/nsfw0.769991onnx/sfw0.676447onnx/nsfl0.037964
Enrichment records (1)
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A black-and-white image of a person's face with pink text elements changing across frames, showing 'm', 'e', 'l', '<3', and 'mel<3'.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,962 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,160, response 686

Review tags

  • text replacement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pink text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • text changes across frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome with color accents (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person s face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text replacement

Animation

  • text changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text elements change sequentially from 'm' to 'e' to 'l', then '<3', and finally 'mel<3' across frames.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • text positioned at top-left, right, and center

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated close-up of a person's face; visible features include eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. Pink text overlays change sequentially: first frame shows 'm' in top-left corner, second frame replaces it with 'e' at same position, third frame changes to 'l' on the right side. Fourth frame displays '<3' on left side of face, fifth frame combines 'mel<3' across center and right sides. Text is bold sans-serif font with white outline. Background is solid black. Animation consists of text replacement without movement or other visual changes.

Description

  • A black-and-white image of a person's face with pink text elements changing across frames, showing 'm', 'e', 'l', '<3', and 'mel<3'.

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

  • person's face pink text mel
  • black-and-white pixelated <3
  • text replacement animation

Objects

  • pink text overlays

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome with color accents

Subjects

  • person's face

Visible Text

  • m
  • e
  • l
  • <3
  • mel<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person's face

Wordwall

  • black-and-white pixelated close-up
  • pink text overlays
  • 'm' in top-left
  • 'e' replaces 'm'
  • 'l' on right side
  • <3 symbol
  • mel<3 combination
  • bold sans-serif font
  • white outline
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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
20080706154434279271821
Archive entry
20080706154434279271821.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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