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Pixelated pink background with black text reading "i love bw" and a heart symbol, featuring white pixel art at the bottom.

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Pixelated pink background with black text reading "i love bw" and a heart symbol, featuring white pixel art at the bottom.

Pixelated pink background with black text reading "i love bw" and a heart symbol, featuring white pixel art at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top text
  • middle symbols
  • bottom pixel art

Dense Caption

The image displays a bright pink background. At the top, there is black pixelated text that reads "i love bw" repeated twice side-by-side. Below each instance of this text, there is a small black pixelated heart symbol '<3'. The lower portion of the image contains white and light pink pixel art depicting abstract shapes resembling flowers or flames with varying heights and widths. The entire composition uses a low-resolution, retro digital style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with black text reading "i love bw" and a heart symbol, featuring white pixel art at the 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

  • i love bw
  • pink background heart symbol
  • pixel art flowers
  • low resolution text

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i love bw
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • bw

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text "i love bw"
  • <3 symbol
  • white pixel art
  • repeated text
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080411174633706521064
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1c/1c94e0aff5dcca9adef1852eb252db8649aa18f04066edff27b1e77459e80eea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
1c94e0aff5dcca9a
SHA-256
1c94e0aff5dcca9adef1852eb252db8649aa18f04066edff27b1e77459e80eea
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 02:25 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002779

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 03:43 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019977

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Run
89
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink background with black text reading "i love bw" and a heart symbol, featuring white pixel art at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,775 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 564

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • 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)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • pixel art shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top text
  • middle symbols
  • bottom pixel art

Dense Caption

The image displays a bright pink background. At the top, there is black pixelated text that reads "i love bw" repeated twice side-by-side. Below each instance of this text, there is a small black pixelated heart symbol '<3'. The lower portion of the image contains white and light pink pixel art depicting abstract shapes resembling flowers or flames with varying heights and widths. The entire composition uses a low-resolution, retro digital style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with black text reading "i love bw" and a heart symbol, featuring white pixel art at the 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

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love bw
  • pink background heart symbol
  • pixel art flowers
  • low resolution text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • pixel art shapes

Visible Text

  • i love bw
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • bw

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text "i love bw"
  • <3 symbol
  • white pixel art
  • repeated text
  • low resolution
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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
20080411174633706521064
Archive entry
20080411174633706521064.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080411174633706521064.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080411174633706521064.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016