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Animated sequence showing a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

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Animated sequence showing a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

Animated sequence showing a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text overlays change

Animation Summary

  • The animation shows a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

Composition

  • <3 symbol centered
  • text overlays in various positions

Dense Caption

The animation consists of six frames showing a black <3 symbol with a textured, pixelated appearance. In the top-left frame, the symbol is alone. In the top-middle frame, a bright pink vertical bar appears inside the symbol. In the top-right frame, the text 'Love' in orange appears over the symbol. In the bottom-left frame, the text 'Andrew' in purple appears below the symbol. In the bottom-middle frame, the text '<33' in orange appears above the symbol, '10.30.09' in orange appears in the center, and '<33' in orange appears below the symbol. The background is white in all frames except the bottom-right frame, which is solid gray. The animation changes only the text overlays and the pink bar, with no movement of the symbol itself.

Description

Animated sequence showing a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

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 symbol love
  • <3 symbol andrew
  • <3 symbol 10.30.09
  • <3 symbol pink bar
  • love andrew 10.30.09
  • animated <3 symbol
  • buddy icon <3
  • text overlays <3 symbol

Objects

  • <3 symbol
  • background

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • Love
  • Andrew
  • <33
  • 10.30.09

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • pink vertical bar
  • orange 'Love' text
  • purple 'Andrew' text
  • <33 text
  • 10.30.09 text
  • white background
  • gray background
  • pixelated texture
  • text overlays

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091122150303611408410
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f2/f21b4a0ca1e7ccf164af833da157953a3c1fa5c02ca69e4384baed27c21df799.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
f21b4a0ca1e7ccf1
SHA-256
f21b4a0ca1e7ccf164af833da157953a3c1fa5c02ca69e4384baed27c21df799
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108951

OpenAI category scores

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Animated sequence showing a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,154 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 845

Review tags

  • text overlay changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • personalized (mood, 0.80)
  • background (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text overlay changes

Animation

  • text overlays change

Animation Summary

  • The animation shows a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • orange
  • purple
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • <3 symbol centered
  • text overlays in various positions

Dense Caption

The animation consists of six frames showing a black <3 symbol with a textured, pixelated appearance. In the top-left frame, the symbol is alone. In the top-middle frame, a bright pink vertical bar appears inside the symbol. In the top-right frame, the text 'Love' in orange appears over the symbol. In the bottom-left frame, the text 'Andrew' in purple appears below the symbol. In the bottom-middle frame, the text '<33' in orange appears above the symbol, '10.30.09' in orange appears in the center, and '<33' in orange appears below the symbol. The background is white in all frames except the bottom-right frame, which is solid gray. The animation changes only the text overlays and the pink bar, with no movement of the symbol itself.

Description

Animated sequence showing a black <3 symbol with changing text overlays: a pink vertical bar, 'Love', 'Andrew', and '<33 10.30.09 <33' in orange.

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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • personalized

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • <3 symbol love
  • <3 symbol andrew
  • <3 symbol 10.30.09
  • <3 symbol pink bar
  • love andrew 10.30.09
  • animated <3 symbol
  • buddy icon <3
  • text overlays <3 symbol

Objects

  • <3 symbol
  • text
  • background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • animated

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • Love
  • Andrew
  • <33
  • 10.30.09

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • pink vertical bar
  • orange 'Love' text
  • purple 'Andrew' text
  • <33 text
  • 10.30.09 text
  • white background
  • gray background
  • pixelated texture
  • text overlays
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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
20091122150303611408410
Archive entry
20091122150303611408410.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091122150303611408410.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091122150303611408410.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016