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Blue background with purple heart symbol above two pink 'ILY<3' text blocks.

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Blue background with purple heart symbol above two pink 'ILY<3' text blocks.

Blue background with purple heart symbol above two pink 'ILY<3' text blocks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two horizontal text blocks

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Purple pixelated heart symbol positioned top-center. Two identical pink pixelated text strings "ILY<3" centered horizontally, one left of center and one right of center. All elements are static; no animation observed in the provided frame. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with sharp edges.

Description

  • Blue background with purple heart symbol above two pink 'ILY<3' text blocks.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801171329061162709362

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background purple heart pink ILY<3
  • pixelated ILY<3 text blue background
  • heart symbol two identical text blocks
  • 8-bit style affectionate text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • ILY<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • purple heart symbol
  • pink 'ILY<3' text
  • pixelated rendering
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801171329061162709362
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
200 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/178d005e56e05faf8c964672c66eea4af74fe64aaf55fa5fcde8be42ee72e40a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
178d005e56e05faf
SHA-256
178d005e56e05faf8c964672c66eea4af74fe64aaf55fa5fcde8be42ee72e40a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075133

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with purple heart symbol above two pink 'ILY<3' text blocks.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:59 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,580 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 617

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text strings (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two horizontal text blocks

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Purple pixelated heart symbol positioned top-center. Two identical pink pixelated text strings "ILY<3" centered horizontally, one left of center and one right of center. All elements are static; no animation observed in the provided frame. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with sharp edges.

Description

  • Blue background with purple heart symbol above two pink 'ILY<3' text blocks.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801171329061162709362

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background purple heart pink ILY<3
  • pixelated ILY<3 text blue background
  • heart symbol two identical text blocks
  • 8-bit style affectionate text

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text strings

Visible Text

  • ILY<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • purple heart symbol
  • pink 'ILY<3' text
  • pixelated rendering
  • static image
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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
200801171329061162709362
Archive entry
200801171329061162709362.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801171329061162709362.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801171329061162709362.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016