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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair on the left, next to pink text symbols and words on a blue background.

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair on the left, next to pink text symbols and words on a blue background.

A pixelated image of a person with brown hair on the left, next to pink text symbols and words on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • vertical text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light skin, brown curly hair, wearing dark clothing with white accents. Right side has vertical columns of bright pink '<3' symbols on solid blue background; bottom-left column includes 'heart' in lowercase letters below the symbols, and bottom-right column includes 'you' in lowercase letters below the symbols. All text is rendered in a pixelated font.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair on the left, next to pink text symbols and words on a blue background.

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

  • <3 heart you
  • <3 blue background pink text
  • brown hair pixelated portrait
  • heart you <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns on right

Visible Text

  • <3
  • heart
  • i

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • <3
  • heart
  • you
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • pixelated portrait
  • brown hair
  • light skin

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709161405001713300021
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e9fd7b046bafd8587b31b9a249241d1c679e43a413285f0cac97f4d9615387e2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
e9fd7b046bafd858
SHA-256
e9fd7b046bafd8587b31b9a249241d1c679e43a413285f0cac97f4d9615387e2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
sfw
Overall score
0.084598

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person with brown hair on the left, next to pink text symbols and words on a blue background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:42 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,956 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 601

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark clothing color (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white accents (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • person with brown curly hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • brown
  • light skin tone
  • dark clothing color
  • white accents

Composition

  • portrait on left
  • vertical text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated portrait of a person with light skin, brown curly hair, wearing dark clothing with white accents. Right side has vertical columns of bright pink '<3' symbols on solid blue background; bottom-left column includes 'heart' in lowercase letters below the symbols, and bottom-right column includes 'you' in lowercase letters below the symbols. All text is rendered in a pixelated font.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person with brown hair on the left, next to pink text symbols and words on a blue background.

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

  • <3 heart you
  • <3 blue background pink text
  • brown hair pixelated portrait
  • heart you <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns on right

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • person with brown curly hair

Visible Text

  • <3
  • heart
  • i

Visually Supported Entities

  • person with brown curly hair

Wordwall

  • <3
  • heart
  • you
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • pixelated portrait
  • brown hair
  • light skin
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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
200709161405001713300021
Archive entry
200709161405001713300021.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709161405001713300021.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709161405001713300021.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016