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Pixelated white heart symbol above two identical text strings on black background.

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Pixelated white heart symbol above two identical text strings on black background.

Pixelated white heart symbol above two identical text strings on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no visible motion changes)

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two identical horizontal text lines below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with a single pixelated white heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it, two identical horizontal lines of pixelated white text read "HeAd<3" in monospaced font; each character is rendered as blocky pixels with visible anti-aliasing artifacts. The left and right instances are visually indistinguishable.

Description

  • Pixelated white heart symbol above two identical text strings on black background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated heart text
  • <3 symbol pixel art
  • black background white text
  • identical text strings

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • HeAd<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol (heart)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • monospaced characters
  • identical text strings
  • <3 symbol
  • anti-aliasing artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090106164951156972986
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
481 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/2260cb02c76eec294f5dc288e3a1a94cc8a4924c21d464fa07fa01e2c49889b0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
2260cb02c76eec29
SHA-256
2260cb02c76eec294f5dc288e3a1a94cc8a4924c21d464fa07fa01e2c49889b0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094524

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white heart symbol above two identical text strings on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,386 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 571

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • static image no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text string (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no visible motion changes)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top-center heart
  • two identical horizontal text lines below
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with a single pixelated white heart symbol positioned at the top center. Below it, two identical horizontal lines of pixelated white text read "HeAd<3" in monospaced font; each character is rendered as blocky pixels with visible anti-aliasing artifacts. The left and right instances are visually indistinguishable.

Description

  • Pixelated white heart symbol above two identical text strings on black background.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated heart text
  • <3 symbol pixel art
  • black background white text
  • identical text strings

Style

  • pixel art
  • monospaced text
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text string

Visible Text

  • HeAd<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol (heart)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white heart symbol
  • pixelated text
  • monospaced characters
  • identical text strings
  • <3 symbol
  • anti-aliasing artifacts
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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
20090106164951156972986
Archive entry
20090106164951156972986.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090106164951156972986.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090106164951156972986.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016