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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with white and light pink elements.

Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with white and light pink elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the leftmost hash mark shifts slightly rightward in the second frame
  • the rightmost plus sign shifts slightly leftward in the second frame

Animation Summary

  • The leftmost hash mark shifts rightward and the rightmost plus sign shifts leftward between frames.

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • bottom-aligned symbols

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. White pixelated lowercase 'i' at top center. Below it, white pixelated lowercase 'love', then 'you', then '<3'. At bottom: five small symbols—two white hash marks, two white plus signs, one light pink heart-shaped symbol in the middle. The leftmost and rightmost hash marks are slightly offset from their central positions compared to the center symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with white and light pink elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071228202804307364936

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background i love you <3
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • hash marks plus signs

Visible Text

  • i love you <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • <3 symbol
  • heart symbol
  • hash mark
  • plus sign

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071228202804307364936
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
837 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/0962a3d2a2585910ef8441d9eeebbe9fe6733282d871dcf59d1941a92c1c434c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
0962a3d2a2585910
SHA-256
0962a3d2a2585910ef8441d9eeebbe9fe6733282d871dcf59d1941a92c1c434c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072025

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with white and light pink elements.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:35 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,503 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 643

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • the leftmost hash mark shifts slightly rightward in the second frame
  • the rightmost plus sign shifts slightly leftward in the second frame

Animation Summary

  • The leftmost hash mark shifts rightward and the rightmost plus sign shifts leftward between frames.

Colors

  • bright pink
  • white
  • light pink

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical layout
  • bottom-aligned symbols

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. White pixelated lowercase 'i' at top center. Below it, white pixelated lowercase 'love', then 'you', then '<3'. At bottom: five small symbols—two white hash marks, two white plus signs, one light pink heart-shaped symbol in the middle. The leftmost and rightmost hash marks are slightly offset from their central positions compared to the center symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a bright pink background with white and light pink elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071228202804307364936

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background i love you <3
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • hash marks plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i love you <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • <3 symbol
  • heart symbol
  • hash mark
  • plus sign
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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
20071228202804307364936
Archive entry
20071228202804307364936.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071228202804307364936.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071228202804307364936.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016