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Two identical blue broken hearts with white text 'dean' and '<3' on black background, each heart split into two jagged pieces.

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Two identical blue broken hearts with white text 'dean' and '<3' on black background, each heart split into two jagged pieces.

Two identical blue broken hearts with white text 'dean' and '<3' on black background, each heart split into two jagged pieces. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical icons side-by-side
  • centered composition
  • vertical split in each icon

Dense Caption

The image shows two side-by-side identical pixelated icons featuring a bright blue broken heart shape against a solid black background. Each heart is vertically split into two jagged pieces revealing the black background between them. Above the break in each heart, white pixelated text reads 'dean' in lowercase letters with a slight shadow effect. Below the break, also in white pixelated font, is '<3', representing a heart symbol. The icons are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style graphics typical of early internet visuals.

Description

  • Two identical blue broken hearts with white text 'dean' and '<3' on black background, each heart split into two jagged pieces.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue broken heart icon
  • dean <3 pixel art
  • buddy icon dean love
  • 8-bit dean heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears static despite being labeled animated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • dean
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • dean

Wordwall

  • blue broken hearts
  • black background
  • white text 'dean'
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated graphics
  • low resolution
  • identical pair
  • vertical split

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712241339061972219176
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712241340321176462754
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
957 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ecd34981d65ac987ea419c5abdc332c579c838c2c7736e1d1a2f0a94f1c7519b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
ecd34981d65ac987
SHA-256
ecd34981d65ac987ea419c5abdc332c579c838c2c7736e1d1a2f0a94f1c7519b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.387566

OpenAI category scores

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Two identical blue broken hearts with white text 'dean' and '<3' on black background, each heart split into two jagged pieces.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:32 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,197 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,192, response 713

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • broken heart (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two identical icons side-by-side
  • centered composition
  • vertical split in each icon

Dense Caption

The image shows two side-by-side identical pixelated icons featuring a bright blue broken heart shape against a solid black background. Each heart is vertically split into two jagged pieces revealing the black background between them. Above the break in each heart, white pixelated text reads 'dean' in lowercase letters with a slight shadow effect. Below the break, also in white pixelated font, is '<3', representing a heart symbol. The icons are rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style graphics typical of early internet visuals.

Description

  • Two identical blue broken hearts with white text 'dean' and '<3' on black background, each heart split into two jagged pieces.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue broken heart icon
  • dean <3 pixel art
  • buddy icon dean love
  • 8-bit dean heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; appears static despite being labeled animated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • broken heart

Visible Text

  • dean
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • dean

Wordwall

  • blue broken hearts
  • black background
  • white text 'dean'
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated graphics
  • low resolution
  • identical pair
  • vertical split
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Full source records (2)

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
200712241339061972219176
Archive entry
200712241339061972219176.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712241339061972219176.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712241339061972219176.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200712241340321176462754
Archive entry
200712241340321176462754.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712241340321176462754.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712241340321176462754.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016