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Black background with white pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of text reading 'single <3' in pixelated font.

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Black background with white pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of text reading 'single <3' in pixelated font.

Black background with white pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of text reading 'single <3' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • heart symbol centered above text
  • text lines horizontally aligned
  • even spacing between elements

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below heart, two identical lines of text: 'single <3' in white pixelated font. Each line contains the word 'single' followed by a less-than sign and a number three. Text lines are horizontally aligned and spaced evenly. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible animation changes. All text and symbols are rendered in white on black.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of text reading 'single <3' in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • single <3 pixelated heart
  • white heart black background
  • pixelated single text
  • two identical single <3 lines

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • single <3

Wordwall

  • white pixelated heart symbol
  • black background
  • text 'single <3'
  • two identical text lines
  • pixelated font
  • white on black
  • horizontal alignment
  • less-than sign
  • number three

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080304203103168779633
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
725 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f42d2731540b2edc3c71db1d81c62ff3f9964926ddd091584e1966a203e067c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
f42d2731540b2edc
SHA-256
f42d2731540b2edc3c71db1d81c62ff3f9964926ddd091584e1966a203e067c0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075413

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of text reading 'single <3' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,113 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 594

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text lines (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • heart symbol centered above text
  • text lines horizontally aligned
  • even spacing between elements

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated heart symbol positioned at top center. Below heart, two identical lines of text: 'single <3' in white pixelated font. Each line contains the word 'single' followed by a less-than sign and a number three. Text lines are horizontally aligned and spaced evenly. Pixelation is consistent across all elements. No visible animation changes. All text and symbols are rendered in white on black.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated heart symbol above two identical lines of text reading 'single <3' in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • single <3 pixelated heart
  • white heart black background
  • pixelated single text
  • two identical single <3 lines

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text lines

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text lines

Visible Text

  • single <3

Wordwall

  • white pixelated heart symbol
  • black background
  • text 'single <3'
  • two identical text lines
  • pixelated font
  • white on black
  • horizontal alignment
  • less-than sign
  • number three
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:47 UTC
Run
56
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080304203103168779633
Archive entry
20080304203103168779633.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080304203103168779633.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080304203103168779633.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016