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Pixelated heart-shaped icons with pink and white stripes on a dark blue starry background, some featuring a black and white '<3' symbol.

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Pixelated heart-shaped icons with pink and white stripes on a dark blue starry background, some featuring a black and white '<3' symbol.

Pixelated heart-shaped icons with pink and white stripes on a dark blue starry background, some featuring a black and white '<3' symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • three hearts
  • stars background
  • gray area on right

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with small light purple stars. Three heart-shaped icons with pink and white horizontal stripes; two hearts have a black outlined white '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow and number 3) on their right side. The hearts are positioned top-left, top-right, and bottom-left. The right side of the image shows a solid gray area. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated heart-shaped icons with pink and white stripes on a dark blue starry background, some featuring a black and white '<3' symbol.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901231936551270199424

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart icon pink white stripes
  • dark blue starry background
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • gray area right side
  • three hearts
  • light purple stars
  • low-resolution graphics

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a solid gray area on the right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped
  • pink and white stripes
  • dark blue background
  • light purple stars
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated
  • gray area
  • three hearts
  • left-pointing arrow
  • number 3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901231936551270199424
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f7/f79e2a5cf3f977122e9a7cbbbdd35de1acb4abc83d08abc308ff9e7eaf95f71d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
f79e2a5cf3f97712
SHA-256
f79e2a5cf3f977122e9a7cbbbdd35de1acb4abc83d08abc308ff9e7eaf95f71d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105736

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated heart-shaped icons with pink and white stripes on a dark blue starry background, some featuring a black and white '<3' symbol.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,185 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 842

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light purple
  • pink
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three hearts
  • stars background
  • gray area on right

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with small light purple stars. Three heart-shaped icons with pink and white horizontal stripes; two hearts have a black outlined white '<3' symbol (left-pointing arrow and number 3) on their right side. The hearts are positioned top-left, top-right, and bottom-left. The right side of the image shows a solid gray area. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated heart-shaped icons with pink and white stripes on a dark blue starry background, some featuring a black and white '<3' symbol.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901231936551270199424

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart icon pink white stripes
  • dark blue starry background
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • gray area right side
  • three hearts
  • light purple stars
  • low-resolution graphics

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a solid gray area on the right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • hearts
  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • <3

Wordwall

  • heart-shaped
  • pink and white stripes
  • dark blue background
  • light purple stars
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated
  • gray area
  • three hearts
  • left-pointing arrow
  • number 3
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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
200901231936551270199424
Archive entry
200901231936551270199424.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901231936551270199424.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901231936551270199424.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016