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Pixelated text reads 'I less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

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Pixelated text reads 'I less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

Pixelated text reads 'I less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text at top
  • <3 symbol below text
  • central alignment

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text at the top reading 'I less than three you' with 'less' and 'three' partially obscured by pixelation. Below the text is a pink '<3' symbol composed of pixelated lines and curves. The background is solid white. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics. The '<3' symbol is positioned centrally beneath the text. The text uses a monospaced font style with varying pixel density. The pink color of the '<3' symbol is a light magenta hue. The entire image has a grainy, low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'I less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200708021335241237715668

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • pixelated text
  • magenta <3
  • affectionate text
  • low-resolution <3
  • white background <3
  • text less than three you

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • I less than three you

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • I less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • white background
  • low-resolution
  • monospaced font
  • magenta color
  • central composition
  • blocky rendering
  • grainy appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708021335241237715668
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ec66af191b5bbf55bd66010f9866bb6ef81ca918b7ac6cb2521e3e3f293004ea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
ec66af191b5bbf55
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103908

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text reads 'I less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,302 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 860

Review tags

  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • magenta

Composition

  • text at top
  • <3 symbol below text
  • central alignment

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text at the top reading 'I less than three you' with 'less' and 'three' partially obscured by pixelation. Below the text is a pink '<3' symbol composed of pixelated lines and curves. The background is solid white. The text and symbol are rendered in a low-resolution, blocky style typical of early digital graphics. The '<3' symbol is positioned centrally beneath the text. The text uses a monospaced font style with varying pixel density. The pink color of the '<3' symbol is a light magenta hue. The entire image has a grainy, low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'I less than three you' above a pink '<3' symbol on a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200708021335241237715668

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • pixelated text
  • magenta <3
  • affectionate text
  • low-resolution <3
  • white background <3
  • text less than three you

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • I less than three you

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • I less than three you
  • pink <3 symbol
  • white background
  • low-resolution
  • monospaced font
  • magenta color
  • central composition
  • blocky rendering
  • grainy appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:10 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708021335241237715668
Archive entry
200708021335241237715668.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708021335241237715668.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708021335241237715668.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016