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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol above 'i love you' text.

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol above 'i love you' text.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol above 'i love you' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in left only

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in left only; right identical without heart

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • two- animation

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: 'i', then 'love you', then '03.06.08', then '<3'. Above the first 'i' is a red pixelated heart symbol; this heart appears only in the left panel of the animation. The right panel shows identical text without the heart. Both panels share the same timestamp and emoticon.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol above 'i love you' text.

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
  • 200808081047201140109222

Named Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love you 03.06.08 <3
  • red heart i love you
  • pixelated i love you animation
  • <3 date 03.06.08

Objects

  • red heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Heart symbol appears in left panel only; right panel identical without heart.
  • quarantined actions: heart appears in left panel only
  • quarantined composition: two-panel animation
  • quarantined animation: heart symbol appears in left panel only

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • i
  • love you
  • 03.06.08
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • 03.06.08 date
  • <3 emoticon
  • i love you phrase

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808081047201140109222
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
261 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/38a03de274d372db472b8f2f45f4f3ce15462bdf5efe9e8357c64b6cd53bb2dd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
38a03de274d372db
SHA-256
38a03de274d372db472b8f2f45f4f3ce15462bdf5efe9e8357c64b6cd53bb2dd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090886

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol above 'i love you' text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,121 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 701

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • red heart (object, 0.80)
  • white text elements (object, 0.80)
  • monospaced font (style, 0.80)
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  • emoticon (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart appears in left only

Animation

  • heart symbol appears in left only

Animation Summary

  • Heart symbol appears in left only; right identical without heart

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • two- animation

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text: 'i', then 'love you', then '03.06.08', then '<3'. Above the first 'i' is a red pixelated heart symbol; this heart appears only in the left panel of the animation. The right panel shows identical text without the heart. Both panels share the same timestamp and emoticon.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with red heart symbol above 'i love you' text.

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
  • 200808081047201140109222

Mood

  • affectionate
  • sentimental

Named Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love you 03.06.08 <3
  • red heart i love you
  • pixelated i love you animation
  • <3 date 03.06.08

Objects

  • red heart
  • white text elements

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined actions: heart appears in left panel only
  • quarantined composition: two-panel animation
  • quarantined animation: heart symbol appears in left panel only

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol
  • emoticon

Visible Text

  • i
  • love you
  • 03.06.08
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 emoticon

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • 03.06.08 date
  • <3 emoticon
  • i love you phrase
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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
200808081047201140109222
Archive entry
200808081047201140109222.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808081047201140109222.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808081047201140109222.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016