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Yellow background with blue text reading "I Like Karl<3" and a pink pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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Yellow background with blue text reading "I Like Karl<3" and a pink pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Yellow background with blue text reading "I Like Karl<3" and a pink pixelated heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Blue pixelated text: "I" (top), "Like" (middle), "Karl<3" (bottom) on both left and right sides. Pink pixelated heart symbol above the text. Text is identical on both sides. Pixelated rendering style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue text reading "I Like Karl<3" and a pink pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background blue text Karl<3
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • I Like Karl<3
  • symmetrical text layout
  • pink heart blue text yellow background
  • Karl<3 heart symbol
  • blue text yellow background
  • pixelated text heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • Like
  • Karl<3

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • pink heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • identical text on both sides
  • Karl<3
  • I Like
  • heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731113503775504161
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
224 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed354a9c97c66f5f8c891cf6aa24a9c1d05f51c59f854b679d8651b7ab6f52d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
ed354a9c97c66f5f
SHA-256
ed354a9c97c66f5f8c891cf6aa24a9c1d05f51c59f854b679d8651b7ab6f52d6
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
0.118709

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

Yellow background with blue text reading "I Like Karl<3" and a pink pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,709 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 650

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • heart above text

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Blue pixelated text: "I" (top), "Like" (middle), "Karl<3" (bottom) on both left and right sides. Pink pixelated heart symbol above the text. Text is identical on both sides. Pixelated rendering style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue text reading "I Like Karl<3" and a pink pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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

Mood

  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background blue text Karl<3
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • I Like Karl<3
  • symmetrical text layout
  • pink heart blue text yellow background
  • Karl<3 heart symbol
  • blue text yellow background
  • pixelated text heart symbol

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I
  • Like
  • Karl<3

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • pink heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • identical text on both sides
  • Karl<3
  • I Like
  • heart symbol
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:55 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
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
20070731113503775504161
Archive entry
20070731113503775504161.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731113503775504161.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731113503775504161.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016