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Blue background with orange and brown lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two

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Blue background with orange and brown lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two

Blue background with orange and brown lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two
  • centered text
  • lines

Dense Caption

Blue background with orange and brown grid lines forming a two-panel layout. Green pixelated text 'ILU<3' appears centered in both panels. The text is identical in both panels. The grid lines are composed of orange and brown horizontal and vertical stripes. The background is solid blue. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style. The '<3' symbol is a stylized heart shape. The text color is bright green. The grid lines are thin and evenly spaced. The panels are square-shaped. The overall image has a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Blue background with orange and brown lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two

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

  • blue ILU<3
  • green text ILU<3
  • pixelated ILU<3
  • two ILU<3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with orange and brown grid lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: two panels
  • quarantined wordwall: brown grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: orange grid lines
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid lines
  • quarantined composition: two panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two panel ILU<3
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid ILU<3

Visible Text

  • ILU<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange lines
  • brown lines
  • green text
  • ILU<3
  • pixelated font
  • two
  • solid blue
  • stylized heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090225140328760280074
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
689 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 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
f7729694892154d7
SHA-256
f7729694892154d7a61e5a92941e0718f7b0c40e1f09d5411d5c2693c5b8d272
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Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.003054

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
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1127
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Blue background with orange and brown lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,667 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 673

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • brown
  • green

Composition

  • two
  • centered text
  • lines

Dense Caption

Blue background with orange and brown grid lines forming a two-panel layout. Green pixelated text 'ILU<3' appears centered in both panels. The text is identical in both panels. The grid lines are composed of orange and brown horizontal and vertical stripes. The background is solid blue. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style. The '<3' symbol is a stylized heart shape. The text color is bright green. The grid lines are thin and evenly spaced. The panels are square-shaped. The overall image has a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Blue background with orange and brown lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two

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

  • blue ILU<3
  • green text ILU<3
  • pixelated ILU<3
  • two ILU<3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with orange and brown grid lines, green text 'ILU<3' centered in two panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: two panels
  • quarantined wordwall: brown grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: orange grid lines
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid lines
  • quarantined composition: two panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two panel ILU<3
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid ILU<3

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • ILU<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange lines
  • brown lines
  • green text
  • ILU<3
  • pixelated font
  • two
  • solid blue
  • stylized heart
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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
20090225140328760280074
Archive entry
20090225140328760280074.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090225140328760280074.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090225140328760280074.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016