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Pixelated purple circular icon with blue text reading "I <33 MY BUDZ I <3 U 2" arranged vertically on a dark background.

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Pixelated purple circular icon with blue text reading "I <33 MY BUDZ I <3 U 2" arranged vertically on a dark background.

Pixelated purple circular icon with blue text reading "I <33 MY BUDZ I <3 U 2" arranged vertically on a dark background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular shape
  • vertical text alignment
  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated circular icons displayed in a grid. Each icon features a gradient purple background transitioning from deep magenta at the edges to bright pink at the center, with blue text rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. The text is arranged vertically: "I <33" at the top, followed by "MY BUDZ", then "I", then "<3", and finally "U 2" at the bottom. All icons share identical visual elements; no differences are visible between them.

Description

  • Pixelated purple circular icon with blue text reading "I <33 MY BUDZ I <3 U 2" arranged vertically on a dark 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805162049051547872227

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple gradient buddy icon
  • blue text I <33 MY BUDZ U 2
  • pixelated circular icon
  • retro digital style

Visible Text

  • I <33
  • MY BUDZ
  • I
  • <3
  • U 2

Wordwall

  • purple gradient background
  • blue blocky text
  • vertical text layout
  • pixelated digital style
  • circular icon shape

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805162049051547872227
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
ec4cab70b903d5fd
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075466

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Pixelated purple circular icon with blue text reading "I <33 MY BUDZ I <3 U 2" arranged vertically on a dark background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 661

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • magenta
  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • circular shape
  • vertical text alignment
  • centered elements

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated circular icons displayed in a grid. Each icon features a gradient purple background transitioning from deep magenta at the edges to bright pink at the center, with blue text rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. The text is arranged vertically: "I <33" at the top, followed by "MY BUDZ", then "I", then "<3", and finally "U 2" at the bottom. All icons share identical visual elements; no differences are visible between them.

Description

  • Pixelated purple circular icon with blue text reading "I <33 MY BUDZ I <3 U 2" arranged vertically on a dark 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805162049051547872227

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple gradient buddy icon
  • blue text I <33 MY BUDZ U 2
  • pixelated circular icon
  • retro digital style

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • I <33
  • MY BUDZ
  • I
  • <3
  • U 2

Wordwall

  • purple gradient background
  • blue blocky text
  • vertical text layout
  • pixelated digital style
  • circular icon shape
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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
200805162049051547872227
Archive entry
200805162049051547872227.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805162049051547872227.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805162049051547872227.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016