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Pixelated grayscale image of a person in motion with text 'love <3' at the bottom, rendered as a static buddy icon.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person in motion with text 'love <3' at the bottom, rendered as a static buddy icon.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person in motion with text 'love <3' at the bottom, rendered as a static buddy icon. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • bottom text bar

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure in mid-motion with arms raised; background is indistinct dark gray. Lower portion features bold black rectangular bar containing white text: 'love', followed by '<3' symbol (less-than sign, number 3), and a small plus sign. Text elements are blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early-2000s digital art. Figure's form is abstracted into light gray shapes against darker background; no discernible facial features or clothing details visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person in motion with text 'love <3' at the bottom, rendered as a static buddy icon.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804171735231030175604
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art love <3 plus sign
  • buddy icon text bar motion figure
  • low-resolution grayscale animation static
  • love <3 + pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Visible Text

  • love
  • <3
  • +

Visually Supported Entities

  • love <3 +

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • figure in motion
  • text 'love <3 +'
  • black rectangular bar
  • blocky low-resolution text
  • indistinct dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804171735231030175604
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f49158a74d5c92f89871ed9f4456cf737ee8f12a452530b0f86bc0e8943f7521.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
f49158a74d5c92f8
SHA-256
f49158a74d5c92f89871ed9f4456cf737ee8f12a452530b0f86bc0e8943f7521
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.172322

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person in motion with text 'love <3' at the bottom, rendered as a static buddy icon.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:17 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,400 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 734

Review tags

  • arms raised (action, 0.80)
  • motion (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text elements (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms raised
  • motion

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • bottom text bar

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a figure in mid-motion with arms raised; background is indistinct dark gray. Lower portion features bold black rectangular bar containing white text: 'love', followed by '<3' symbol (less-than sign, number 3), and a small plus sign. Text elements are blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early-2000s digital art. Figure's form is abstracted into light gray shapes against darker background; no discernible facial features or clothing details visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person in motion with text 'love <3' at the bottom, rendered as a static buddy icon.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200804171735231030175604
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art love <3 plus sign
  • buddy icon text bar motion figure
  • low-resolution grayscale animation static
  • love <3 + pixel art

Objects

  • text elements

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • abstract figure

Visible Text

  • love
  • <3
  • +

Visually Supported Entities

  • love <3 +

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • figure in motion
  • text 'love <3 +'
  • black rectangular bar
  • blocky low-resolution text
  • indistinct dark background
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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
200804171735231030175604
Archive entry
200804171735231030175604.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804171735231030175604.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804171735231030175604.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016