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Purple background with pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' and a pink heart symbol above it, displayed in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

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Purple background with pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' and a pink heart symbol above it, displayed in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

Purple background with pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' and a pink heart symbol above it, displayed in two identical side-by-side arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart
  • two side-by-side text instances
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Centered at the top is a pink pixelated heart symbol. Below the heart, two identical instances of pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' are horizontally aligned, left and right. Each 'Katy<3' text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The heart symbol is positioned directly above the left 'Katy<3' text. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. The text 'Katy<3' includes the name 'Katy' followed by a less-than sign and the number 3. The color palette consists of purple and pink.

Description

  • Purple background with pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' and a pink heart symbol above it, displayed in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

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

  • purple background pink heart Katy<3
  • Katy<3 pixelated heart
  • two Katy<3 text instances
  • retro digital purple pink
  • heart above text
  • Katy<3 heart symbol
  • pixelated text purple background
  • affectionate digital icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Katy<3

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • pink heart symbol
  • Katy<3 text
  • pixelated font
  • two identical text instances
  • heart above text
  • retro digital style
  • blocky text
  • solid color background
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201010141909411058704940
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
199 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
f44cd85d7435d32f
SHA-256
f44cd85d7435d32fd7a0ad43802a2fe653151e490731a99982a9427a1e0b50ec
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Purple background with pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' and a pink heart symbol above it, displayed in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:56 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,410 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 743

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • centered heart
  • two side-by-side text instances
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Centered at the top is a pink pixelated heart symbol. Below the heart, two identical instances of pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' are horizontally aligned, left and right. Each 'Katy<3' text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The heart symbol is positioned directly above the left 'Katy<3' text. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. The text 'Katy<3' includes the name 'Katy' followed by a less-than sign and the number 3. The color palette consists of purple and pink.

Description

  • Purple background with pink pixelated text 'Katy<3' and a pink heart symbol above it, displayed in two identical side-by-side arrangements.

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

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Katy<3 pixelated heart
  • two Katy<3 text instances
  • retro digital purple pink
  • heart above text
  • Katy<3 heart symbol
  • pixelated text purple background
  • affectionate digital icon

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • Katy<3

Wordwall

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  • pink heart symbol
  • Katy<3 text
  • pixelated font
  • two identical text instances
  • heart above text
  • retro digital style
  • blocky text
  • solid color background
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:11 UTC
Run
61
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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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
201010141909411058704940
Archive entry
201010141909411058704940.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201010141909411058704940.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201010141909411058704940.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016