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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, next to text reading "I LUV <3 <3 NICK!! <3 <3" in bold black letters.

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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, next to text reading "I LUV <3 <3 NICK!! <3 <3" in bold black letters.

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, next to text reading "I LUV <3 <3 NICK!! <3 <3" in bold black letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored shirt. The person's face shows faint red marks on cheeks. To the right, bold black text reads "I LUV" on top line, followed by two heart symbols "<3 <3" on second line, "NICK!!" on third line, and two heart symbols "<3 <3" on fourth line. All text is in uppercase. Background is solid white. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, next to text reading "I LUV <3 <3 NICK!! <3 <3" in bold black letters.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070824170040565313044
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person curly brown hair
  • I LUV NICK!!
  • heart symbols text
  • pixelated affectionate icon
  • light skin red marks
  • solid white background text
  • NICK!! <3 <3
  • franksicons buddy icon

Objects

  • heart symbols

Visible Text

  • I LUV
  • <3 <3
  • NICK!!

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • light skin
  • red marks on cheeks
  • light-colored shirt
  • bold black text
  • I LUV
  • <3 <3
  • NICK!!
  • solid white background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824170040565313044
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc41b8f2b87317defa6a13250a503fceab68d1f24c0fe1104cd5003c97e4cd78.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
fc41b8f2b87317de
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, next to text reading "I LUV <3 <3 NICK!! <3 <3" in bold black letters.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,841 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 811

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • light skin
  • red
  • light-colored
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • person on left
  • text on right
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, wearing a light-colored shirt. The person's face shows faint red marks on cheeks. To the right, bold black text reads "I LUV" on top line, followed by two heart symbols "<3 <3" on second line, "NICK!!" on third line, and two heart symbols "<3 <3" on fourth line. All text is in uppercase. Background is solid white. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair and light skin, next to text reading "I LUV <3 <3 NICK!! <3 <3" in bold black letters.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070824170040565313044
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • affectionate
  • enthusiastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • I LUV NICK!!
  • heart symbols text
  • pixelated affectionate icon
  • light skin red marks
  • solid white background text
  • NICK!! <3 <3
  • franksicons buddy icon

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  • heart symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I LUV
  • <3 <3
  • NICK!!

Wordwall

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  • light skin
  • red marks on cheeks
  • light-colored shirt
  • bold black text
  • I LUV
  • <3 <3
  • NICK!!
  • solid white background
  • pixelated rendering
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:55 UTC
Run
52
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)
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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
20070824170040565313044
Archive entry
20070824170040565313044.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070824170040565313044.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824170040565313044.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016