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Pixel art icon with dark blue background, white text "Im" above "<3 A <3", "Headturner" text below, and pink/purple heart symbols at bottom.

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Pixel art icon with dark blue background, white text "Im" above "<3 A <3", "Headturner" text below, and pink/purple heart symbols at bottom.

Pixel art icon with dark blue background, white text "Im" above "<3 A <3", "Headturner" text below, and pink/purple heart symbols at bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

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Composition

  • top text
  • middle text
  • bottom symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with white pixelated text "Im" at top center, two identical "<3 A <3" lines below it, "Headturner" text spanning the middle, and two identical rows of five pink/purple heart symbols at the bottom. The left row has four pink hearts and one purple heart; the right row has three pink hearts and two purple hearts. All text and symbols are rendered in a retro 8-bit style with sharp pixel edges.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with dark blue background, white text "Im" above "<3 A <3", "Headturner" text below, and pink/purple heart symbols at bottom.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • headturner <3
  • im <3 a <3
  • pink purple hearts
  • 8-bit headturner
  • dark blue pixel art
  • symmetrical hearts
  • im headturner
  • hearts <3

Objects

  • <3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical rows

Visible Text

  • Im
  • <3 A <3
  • Headturner

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Im text
  • <3 A <3 text
  • Headturner text
  • pink heart symbols
  • purple heart symbols
  • 8-bit style
  • two identical
  • four pink hearts
  • one purple heart
  • three pink hearts
  • two purple hearts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081108153803350483611
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
315 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe8380ba92f2a5f29f3558e2e2c6924c7882b3a06a5c8f7be3555d84732a4452.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
fe8380ba92f2a5f2
SHA-256
fe8380ba92f2a5f29f3558e2e2c6924c7882b3a06a5c8f7be3555d84732a4452
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.066724

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Pixel art icon with dark blue background, white text "Im" above "<3 A <3", "Headturner" text below, and pink/purple heart symbols at bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,408 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 652

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • hearts (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • top text
  • middle text
  • bottom symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with white pixelated text "Im" at top center, two identical "<3 A <3" lines below it, "Headturner" text spanning the middle, and two identical rows of five pink/purple heart symbols at the bottom. The left row has four pink hearts and one purple heart; the right row has three pink hearts and two purple hearts. All text and symbols are rendered in a retro 8-bit style with sharp pixel edges.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with dark blue background, white text "Im" above "<3 A <3", "Headturner" text below, and pink/purple heart symbols at bottom.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • headturner <3
  • im <3 a <3
  • pink purple hearts
  • 8-bit headturner
  • dark blue pixel art
  • symmetrical hearts
  • im headturner
  • hearts <3

Objects

  • <3
  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Visible Text

  • Im
  • <3 A <3
  • Headturner

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Im text
  • <3 A <3 text
  • Headturner text
  • pink heart symbols
  • purple heart symbols
  • 8-bit style
  • two identical
  • four pink hearts
  • one purple heart
  • three pink hearts
  • two purple hearts
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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
20081108153803350483611
Archive entry
20081108153803350483611.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081108153803350483611.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081108153803350483611.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016